Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions: Considered in Reference to the Constitution and HistoricallyG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1893 - 171 страница |
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... took place in the Senate in January , 1830 ; it arose on an amended resolution originally offered by Mr. Foote as to the expediency of limiting or hastening the sales of the public lands . South Carolina was then threatening to declare ...
... took place in the Senate in January , 1830 ; it arose on an amended resolution originally offered by Mr. Foote as to the expediency of limiting or hastening the sales of the public lands . South Carolina was then threatening to declare ...
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... took up that against the Union ; he went back to its formation , treating it historically . Under the confederacy made between the States the whole power of the government was in the Continental Congress . Though it could make war and ...
... took up that against the Union ; he went back to its formation , treating it historically . Under the confederacy made between the States the whole power of the government was in the Continental Congress . Though it could make war and ...
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... took the closing words of his short immortal Gettysburg address , and applied them to the national soldiers who had there died for the Union " That this nation , under God , shall have a new birth of freedom , and that gov- ernment of ...
... took the closing words of his short immortal Gettysburg address , and applied them to the national soldiers who had there died for the Union " That this nation , under God , shall have a new birth of freedom , and that gov- ernment of ...
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... took from the States the power , as far as it could consistently with freedom , of resistance . The government of the Confederacy depend- ed upon the several State governments , their soldiers , and their contributions ; it had no ...
... took from the States the power , as far as it could consistently with freedom , of resistance . The government of the Confederacy depend- ed upon the several State governments , their soldiers , and their contributions ; it had no ...
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... took place in the convention that made the Constitution , and what those that made it intended . Fortunately we have the journals of the convention that framed the Constitution ; the minutes , until he left , of Mr. Yates , a dele- gate ...
... took place in the convention that made the Constitution , and what those that made it intended . Fortunately we have the journals of the convention that framed the Constitution ; the minutes , until he left , of Mr. Yates , a dele- gate ...
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Страница 12 - I shall not acknowledge that the honorable member goes before me in regard for whatever of distinguished talent or distinguished character South Carolina has produced. I claim part of the honor, I partake in the pride, of her great names. I claim them for countrymen, one and all.
Страница 75 - Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new Constitution...
Страница 16 - However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE. The streams of national power ought to flow immediately from that pure, original...
Страница 90 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Страница 76 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Страница 22 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...
Страница 26 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Страница 19 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Страница 5 - When the Constitution was adopted by the votes of States at Philadelphia, and accepted by the votes of States in popular conventions, it is safe to say that there was not a man in the country from Washington and Hamilton on the one side, to George Clinton and George Mason on the other, who regarded the new system as anything but an experiment entered upon by the States and from which each and every State had a right peaceably to withdraw, a right which was very likely to be exercised.
Страница 117 - ... the vital principle of republics from which there is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public...