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Yet , when John Breckinridge arose in his place to give notice that he would on the next day introduce certain resolutions , he set in motion one of the greatest political movements in American history . The governor , General James ...
Yet , when John Breckinridge arose in his place to give notice that he would on the next day introduce certain resolutions , he set in motion one of the greatest political movements in American history . The governor , General James ...
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... powers of the ordinary government of the States and the State in sovereign convention became , under the vague conditions of a half - digested political theory , the staple of debate and the occasion of much windy rhetoric .
... powers of the ordinary government of the States and the State in sovereign convention became , under the vague conditions of a half - digested political theory , the staple of debate and the occasion of much windy rhetoric .
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The authorship also must remain an insoluble problem because it has become colored by political considerations . Probably all the facts that will ever be known have been laid before the public , and there remains a gap in the evidence ...
The authorship also must remain an insoluble problem because it has become colored by political considerations . Probably all the facts that will ever be known have been laid before the public , and there remains a gap in the evidence ...
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... various shades of interpretation given to the idea presented by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions , or how far short they fall of the interpretation which has been adopted through the influence of political and judicial action .
... various shades of interpretation given to the idea presented by the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions , or how far short they fall of the interpretation which has been adopted through the influence of political and judicial action .
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That this point of view is highly illustrative of current political thinking is further proved by the almost identical words used by the Hartford convention when the New England States found themselves in a similar attitude to the ...
That this point of view is highly illustrative of current political thinking is further proved by the almost identical words used by the Hartford convention when the New England States found themselves in a similar attitude to the ...
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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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