Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... position was acceptable to the great mass of the people , and that it did not represent hostility to the Constitution so much as the tendency to read into that document greater powers than a reasonable inter- pretation would justify ...
... position was acceptable to the great mass of the people , and that it did not represent hostility to the Constitution so much as the tendency to read into that document greater powers than a reasonable inter- pretation would justify ...
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... position by Mr. Breckinridge in debate and the appearance of the same phraseology in his Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 seem to indicate that the position was his , and is valu- able evidence as to his responsible authorship of the reso ...
... position by Mr. Breckinridge in debate and the appearance of the same phraseology in his Kentucky Resolutions of 1799 seem to indicate that the position was his , and is valu- able evidence as to his responsible authorship of the reso ...
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... position taken by Mr. Jefferson , the appreciation of the undercurrents of opinion , which only needed to be brought to the surface , and his characteristic unwillingness to expose himself to the chances of war are highly characteristic ...
... position taken by Mr. Jefferson , the appreciation of the undercurrents of opinion , which only needed to be brought to the surface , and his characteristic unwillingness to expose himself to the chances of war are highly characteristic ...
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... position , so ably but so vainly urged by Mr. Murray , was asserted by the Massachusetts legislature in its response to the Kentucky Resolutions as well as in other replies . It is almost necessary , in order to illustrate the posi ...
... position , so ably but so vainly urged by Mr. Murray , was asserted by the Massachusetts legislature in its response to the Kentucky Resolutions as well as in other replies . It is almost necessary , in order to illustrate the posi ...
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... position . It does not , how- ever , consist with respect and forbearance due from a Confed- erate State toward the general Government to fly to open re- sistance upon every infraction of the Constitution . The mode and the energy of ...
... position . It does not , how- ever , consist with respect and forbearance due from a Confed- erate State toward the general Government to fly to open re- sistance upon every infraction of the Constitution . The mode and the energy of ...
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