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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... convention became , under the vague conditions of a half - digested political theory , the staple of debate and the occasion of much windy rhetoric . Mr. Jefferson pursued his main policy with sufficient detachment from the side ...
... convention became , under the vague conditions of a half - digested political theory , the staple of debate and the occasion of much windy rhetoric . Mr. Jefferson pursued his main policy with sufficient detachment from the side ...
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... convention when the New England States found themselves in a similar attitude to the general Government . The following pas- sage is so similar to the words of Mr. Madison that it seems almost incredible that it was adopted by a body of ...
... convention when the New England States found themselves in a similar attitude to the general Government . The following pas- sage is so similar to the words of Mr. Madison that it seems almost incredible that it was adopted by a body of ...
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... Convention : Its Report - Senator Robert Y. Hayne [ S. C. ] on the " Treason of New England " as Ex- pressed in the Convention - The Tariff of 1828 - Threats of Secession by South Carolina and Georgia - President John Quincy Adams's ...
... Convention : Its Report - Senator Robert Y. Hayne [ S. C. ] on the " Treason of New England " as Ex- pressed in the Convention - The Tariff of 1828 - Threats of Secession by South Carolina and Georgia - President John Quincy Adams's ...
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... convention provides a constitu- tional remedy for it ; the other undertakes to annul the law , and suspend its operation , so long as three - fourths of the States are not brought into active coöperation to declare it valid . The res ...
... convention provides a constitu- tional remedy for it ; the other undertakes to annul the law , and suspend its operation , so long as three - fourths of the States are not brought into active coöperation to declare it valid . The res ...
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... convention , and of a single State , proprio vigore , ' to ' nullify ' acts of Con- gress , and to interpret the Constitution , above and beyond the Federal judiciary , is the essential difference between the ' nulli- fication ' of ...
... convention , and of a single State , proprio vigore , ' to ' nullify ' acts of Con- gress , and to interpret the Constitution , above and beyond the Federal judiciary , is the essential difference between the ' nulli- fication ' of ...
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