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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... tion , and was struck out by Jefferson on his realizing the full force of what he had written . 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 ...
... tion , and was struck out by Jefferson on his realizing the full force of what he had written . 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 ...
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... tion , to reform the abuses by a change of the Constitution . The convention believes that some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those States which shall intend to maintain a federal relation to each other . Events ...
... tion , to reform the abuses by a change of the Constitution . The convention believes that some new form of confederacy should be substituted among those States which shall intend to maintain a federal relation to each other . Events ...
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... tion exempts us from its necessity . In this case , as in the former , those more immediately exposed to its fatal effects are a minority of the nation . The commercial towns , the shores of our seas and rivers , contain the population ...
... tion exempts us from its necessity . In this case , as in the former , those more immediately exposed to its fatal effects are a minority of the nation . The commercial towns , the shores of our seas and rivers , contain the population ...
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... tion from the same State twice in succession . The convention dissolved with the statement that , if its proposals in regard to the embargo and related mat- ters should not be agreed to , and if the defence of the New England States ...
... tion from the same State twice in succession . The convention dissolved with the statement that , if its proposals in regard to the embargo and related mat- ters should not be agreed to , and if the defence of the New England States ...
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... tion of importunate manufacturers . Demanding the repeal of an act which has already dis- turbed the Union and endangered the public tranquillity , weak- ened the confidence of whole States in the Federal Government , and diminished the ...
... tion of importunate manufacturers . Demanding the repeal of an act which has already dis- turbed the Union and endangered the public tranquillity , weak- ened the confidence of whole States in the Federal Government , and diminished the ...
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