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CHAPTER VIII.—WEBSTER'S MASTERPIECE OF CRITICISM.
INTERPRETATION No. 12-"Constitutional Compact."
"Compact" and "accede" are correct
Webster ignored constitutional history.
Neither he nor Calhoun stated the facts of the case
Both must have assumed their premises
Webster's views later in life
Attempts at explanation.
He defines compact, confederation, and league
Why was he on both sides?
CHAPTER IX.-LINCOLN'S PLAIN ENGLISH.
Consequences of the "expounders'" interpretations
Lincoln's views and teachers
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CHAPTER XI. - WASHINGTON'S POLITICAL FAITH. (Continued.)
Washington's adoption of Wilson's views.
His adoption of the views of "Fabius" (John Dickinson)
His adoption of those of the Federalist, Hamilton, and others Comments on his political opinions
CHAPTER XII.-VERBal JugglerY.
Perversion of Noah Webster's definitions
Strategic exposition
The American "Old Man of the Mountain'
Noah Webster's real doctrines .
The states above constitutions of government
The aim is to preserve the states complete
Electees and agents
A compact and a constitution
Noah Webster never changed
The "adroit substitutions" in Webster's dictionary
CHAPTER XIII.-CONSERVATIVE ERROrs.
1. As to "a republican form of government "
The sovereign wills survived federation
"Form" and soul are both meant
Self-preservation the duty of a state
Voting in some states is a mere simulacrum of liberty
The guaranty is really one of sovereignty
2. As to the fourteenth party to the compact
The real fourteenth party, if any
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Webster and Curtis have the same idea
5. As to "the consent of the governed "
6. As to "the will of the majority rules"
7. As to "the charter of our liberties"
8. As to social compact, constitution, bill of rights
9. As to the growth and development theory
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CHAPTER III.-SOCIAL COMPACT FALLACIES.
The expounders on the social compact
Story, Webster, and Curtis-society vs. government
A misstatement exposed; the real government
Vagaries of the political pulpit as to secession
Specimens of expounding on this subject
Declaration of John Quincy Adams.
Professor Jameson's hotchpotch
Hume and expounders on the social compact
The state rules in all things
The germ of the republic
The society called Pennsylvania
The polity is self-government of societies
Did the American provinces revolutionize in vain
CHAPTER IV. - SOCIETIES ARE SOVEreign.
What our political history and philosophy teach
Grades of authority -illustrated
An amusing mistake
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The people govern the people.
The people as sovereign states and as subjects
A further illustration, showing perversion
Views of publicists idem sonans with this work .
demonstration
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How the masses are misled. .
The teaching that the states are mere counties Defences changed to means of attack
"The states are sovereign, except," &c.; exposure of the error
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Stephens, Webster, Pendleton, Greeley, Draper, and others.
Delegating is irrevocably granting - exposure of the sophism
Arguing from false words
The fathers never held such dogmas
Politicians, like sheep, follow a bell.
Hon. A. H. Stephens and others on sovereignty
Extended quotation of Mr. Stephens' views
Remarks on the same.
Some decisive definitions.
CHAPTER VII.—THE UNITED STATES ARE SOVEREIGNS YET.
States are the sovereign parties to the compact
The people, as states, have always amended
The first twelve amendments
Adoption by separate states
The later amendments
When and how did a state lose sovereignty?
Admissions of Everett, J. Q. Adams and Webster, and others
Sophists always stultify themselves.
The political philosophers — their views
Issues of fact tendered
"Free, sovereign, and independent". what the phrase means
The states not under the control of the government
But "change" by usurpation threatens us
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CHAPTER VIII. THE STATES ACT AS SOVEREIGNS IN THE Union.
CHAPTER IX. — OTHER Sovereigns like New York.
States are societies based on the heart.
How men become new states, and these sovereign
The status and rights of a settler.
Whence comes the new state's sovereignty
Reasons for the view expressed
CHAPTER XI.- THE ULTIMATE ARBITER.
The natural and inherent right of defence is in society
No federal capacity, or duty, for direct local defence
Who is to judge of broken conditions and forfeitures?
The pact itself agrees with the philosophy here set forth
The expounders virtually admit the theory hereof
The guaranty of all the states is to preserve each
Expressio unius est exclusio alterius
"The government can enter states only by express law
"The government" has no right to hold the states
Its doing so reduces the states to counties
CHAPTER XII. -THE TRUE CHARACTER OF THE GOVERNMENT.
It is tripartite, or three institutions - illustrative diagram
Unheeded form of consolidation the worst
The government cannot be a grantee the reasons why
A misleading misnomer
Let us symbolise the polity
CHAPTER XIII. FACTS MUST PREVAIL.
Let those who devised, describe the polity
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Statements of Hamilton, Madison, Washington, and others
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CITIZENSHIP, ALLEGIANCE, AND TREASON IN THE
UNITED STATES.
CHAPTER I. THE PEOPLE ARE SOVEREIGN STATES.
Statement of fundamental principles
1. The people are the states
2. Loss of statehood feared and forefended
3. Federal usurpations to be treated as nullities
4. The federal agency not to coerce states
5. Self-defence of states against said agency unlimited
6. The citizen's defence of his state cannot be treason
The states are the people and polity
Corroborative views of Webster, Curtis, and James Wilson
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