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On the one hand , this sentence has arrayed against it a great mass of contemporary testimony ; on the other , if it is to stand as Jefferson's perfected theory , every atom of Calhoun's perfected theory finds in it a perfect antetype .
On the one hand , this sentence has arrayed against it a great mass of contemporary testimony ; on the other , if it is to stand as Jefferson's perfected theory , every atom of Calhoun's perfected theory finds in it a perfect antetype .
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With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
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... if folly and madness ; if uneasiness , under salutary and necessary restraint , shall succeed to separate it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure , it will stand , in the end , by the side of that cradle in ...
... if folly and madness ; if uneasiness , under salutary and necessary restraint , shall succeed to separate it from that Union by which alone its existence is made sure , it will stand , in the end , by the side of that cradle in ...
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And now , sir , what I have first to say on this subject is that at no time and under no circumstances has New England , or any State in New England , or any respectable body of persons in New England , or any public man of standing in ...
And now , sir , what I have first to say on this subject is that at no time and under no circumstances has New England , or any State in New England , or any respectable body of persons in New England , or any public man of standing in ...
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It has not a foot of ground in the Constitution to stand on . No public man of reputation ever advanced it in Massachusetts in the warmest times , or could maintain himself upon it there ...
It has not a foot of ground in the Constitution to stand on . No public man of reputation ever advanced it in Massachusetts in the warmest times , or could maintain himself upon it there ...
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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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