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These acts , consisting of what have come to be known as the Alien and Sedition laws , together with a naturalization act which was primarily intended to discriminate against French immigrants , and other laws of less importance ...
These acts , consisting of what have come to be known as the Alien and Sedition laws , together with a naturalization act which was primarily intended to discriminate against French immigrants , and other laws of less importance ...
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One submits to the law till a majority repeal it , or a convention provides a constitutional remedy for it ... nullification would stop the functions of Government and arrest laws indefinitely ; and is incapable of being brought to ...
One submits to the law till a majority repeal it , or a convention provides a constitutional remedy for it ... nullification would stop the functions of Government and arrest laws indefinitely ; and is incapable of being brought to ...
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Its object was to balance the burdens upon native industry imposed by the operation of foreign laws ; but not to aggravate the burdens of one section of the Union by the relief afforded to another . To the great principle sanctioned by ...
Its object was to balance the burdens upon native industry imposed by the operation of foreign laws ; but not to aggravate the burdens of one section of the Union by the relief afforded to another . To the great principle sanctioned by ...
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Laws were passed which restrained her citizens and discouraged her industry , and her wealth was taken and bestowed upon the citizens of other States . During seven years of the old war it was her pride to suffer for the general good ...
Laws were passed which restrained her citizens and discouraged her industry , and her wealth was taken and bestowed upon the citizens of other States . During seven years of the old war it was her pride to suffer for the general good ...
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... under a tyranny ten times more grievous than the alien and sedition laws , she has hitherto gone no further than to petition , remonstrate , and solemnly to protest against a series of measures which she believes to be wholly ...
... under a tyranny ten times more grievous than the alien and sedition laws , she has hitherto gone no further than to petition , remonstrate , and solemnly to protest against a series of measures which she believes to be wholly ...
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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