CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I.

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Disputes on Nature of Government...

Theory of State Sovereignty....

Congress, in 1777, on Articles of Confederation.

John Adams on Party Divisions..

John Adams on Lost History...

Theory of Sovereignty of the People..

Views in favor of State Sovereignty.

Sovereignty "Retained".

Congress, in 1779, on the Internal Policy of a State...

Luther Martin on State Sovereignty, and James Madison on Luther

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Justice Samuel Chase on State Sovereignty..

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Robert Y. Hayne, of South Carolina, on State Sovereignty and Powers

John C. Calhoun on Powers of the General Government.

South Carolina Convention of 1832, on State Sovereignty...

Nashville Convention of 1850, on the Right of Secession...

National Democratic Convention of 1856, on Kentucky and Virginia

Resolutions..

National Whig Convention of 1856, on the Nature of the Government

Chief Justice Taney on State Sovereignty and the Nature of the

James Buchanan on Grants of Specific Powers by the States.

Jefferson Davis on State Sovereignty.....

Sharswood's Blackstone on State Sovereignty..

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New American Cyclopædia on Powers not Expressly Granted to the

Federal Government..

Geographical Dictionary on Powers not Expressly Conceded to the

General Government.....

Justice Clifford on State Sovereignty.

Chief Justice Chase on State Sovereignty..

Edward Everett on Sovereign Republics..

Austin on Sovereignty.....

Justice Blair on Sovereignty, and the word "Retain

Nathan Dane on Sovereignty.

M. D'Alembert on the Sovereign Power in a Republic..

James Madison on Sovereignty....

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Lewis Cass on Sovereignty in the United States..

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CHAPTER IV.

Of Nations and States. Noah Webster's definition of a Nation..

Encyclopædia Britannica on the word Nation.

Phillimore on a State....

Judge Story on a Sovereign State.

Wheaton on Independent States.

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James Madison on the term States......

New American Cyclopædia on the Sovereignty of a State..........

Montesquieu on Sovereign States, and Crab on the term States..

The State of Great Britain.....

San Marino, a State....

Tobasco, a State...

Austin on Confederated States..

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Mr. Pendleton, of Virginia, in 1788, on the phrase "We, the People"..

Mr. Corbin, of Virginia, in 1788, on "We, the People".

Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, in 1788, on “We, the People of the

United States"....

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Mr. Nicholas, of Virginia, in 1788, on "We, the People'
Bayard on "the People of the United States ".

CHAPTER V.

Virginia House of Burgesses, in 1774....

General Congress proposed, in 1774...

Massachusetts House of Representatives, in 1774..

Meeting of Continental Congress, in 1774....

Object of the Revolutionary Movement.

On Voting in Congress, in 1774...

Association formed in Congress, 1774...

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Resolution adopted by Officers of Dunmore's Expedition, in 1774........

Resolution adopted by Inhabitants of Westmoreland County, Pennsyl-

Address to the People of Ireland, in 1775.

On Colonial Petitions, in 1775..

"The Cause of American Liberty," in 1775...

Exports from certain Colonies, permitted by Congress, in 1775.

America "has a blank sheet to write upon," in 1775.

Sermon at Philadelphia, in 1775..

Whigs and Tories, in 1775......

Provincial Congress, at Watertown, in 1775.

Thomas Jefferson's Views, in 1775......

James Wilson, of Pennsylvania, on the Declaration of Independence...

Views of the Colonists at the beginning of the Revolution...

Germans, in 1775.............

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CHAPTER VI.

Congress recommends the Adoption of State Governments....

Delegates in Congress from Virginia instructed to propose Declaration

of Independence....

Virginia Bill of Rights, in 1776..

Declaration of Independence...

Declaration to be Proclaimed in each of the United States.....

New York Convention, in 1776......

Resolution of Congress, in 1776...

Resolution of Congress, in 1776..

Resolution of Congress, in 1776..

Resolution of Congress, in 1776..

John Hancock's Views, in 1776..

Battalions to be Enlisted, in 1776.

Population of the Union, in 1775..

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America," in 1778.

Treaty of 1778..

Treaty of 1778..

New York Journal, in 1778..

New Jersey Gazette, in 1779.

Instructions to Commissioners, in 1776.....

United Colonies changed to United States, in 1776........

America to be "great among the Nations of the Earth".

United States "free and independent,” in 1776...........

CHAPTER VII.

Articles of Confederation proposed.....

Mr. Wilson, of Pennsylvania, on Confederation..

John Adams on Confederation...

Congress on Confederation, in 1777..

"Address of Congress to the Inhabitants of the United States of

Maryland Gazette, in 1778..

King of France, in 1780...

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