Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) |
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... to take into consideration that portion of the governor's address which referred to certain unconstitutional laws passed at the late session of Congress , and that he would then move certain resolutions on the subject .
... to take into consideration that portion of the governor's address which referred to certain unconstitutional laws passed at the late session of Congress , and that he would then move certain resolutions on the subject .
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II The Kentucky Resolutions were provoked by the act of Congress passed in the violent anti - French reaction of 1798 , produced by the publication of the X. Y. Z. dispatches . These acts , consisting of what have come to be known as ...
II The Kentucky Resolutions were provoked by the act of Congress passed in the violent anti - French reaction of 1798 , produced by the publication of the X. Y. Z. dispatches . These acts , consisting of what have come to be known as ...
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The facts that resolutions protesting against the Alien and Sedition laws were passed by various local meetings in Kentucky in 1798 , that John Breckinridge went to Virginia and was in conference with Mr. Jefferson in the summer of that ...
The facts that resolutions protesting against the Alien and Sedition laws were passed by various local meetings in Kentucky in 1798 , that John Breckinridge went to Virginia and was in conference with Mr. Jefferson in the summer of that ...
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And to their honor be it said that they have , with an independence becoming their character , declared an act passed by Congress no law . " This position , so ably but so vainly urged by Mr. Murray , was asserted by the Massachusetts ...
And to their honor be it said that they have , with an independence becoming their character , declared an act passed by Congress no law . " This position , so ably but so vainly urged by Mr. Murray , was asserted by the Massachusetts ...
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The Virginia resolutions , drafted by James Madison , after asserting the doctrine of a strict construction of the Constitution , left it entirely to inference that if the Federal Government passed acts which , according to this ...
The Virginia resolutions , drafted by James Madison , after asserting the doctrine of a strict construction of the Constitution , left it entirely to inference that if the Federal Government passed acts which , according to this ...
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