Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six Attempts During the First Century of the RepublicThe Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2002 - 461 strani A study of sucession and nullification movements in the United States from the nullification resolutions of 1798 to the American Civil War. Powell proposes that the secession of the southern states in 1861 was not a unique event in American history, but the culmination of a tradition as old as the nation. Indeed, he argues, it was an expression of the "intense individualism which was the most potent factor in the creation of the republic" (Preface). Sensitive to the continued animosity between the North and South, Powell hoped that the historical context provided by his study would help to promote a spirit of reconciliation. The six attempts at nullification and secession that he examines are: - the Nullification Resolutions of 1798 - the plot for a northern confederacy (1803-1804) - the Burr plot (1805-1806) - New England nullification and the Hartford Convention (1812-1814) - South Carolina's attempts at nullification (1832) - the secession of 11 states and creation of the confederacy (1861). |
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... Amendments to the Constitution following Emancipation . ( 9 ) The Pro- posed XIIIth Amendment . 328 CHAPTER VIII . CONCLUDING Summary of dangers to permanency of X Contents.
... AMENDED When , in the course of human events , it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another , and to as- sume among the powers of the earth , the separate and equal station ...
... amendment of the Constitution , granting Congress power to cut up the States at its option into smaller ones . Such a plan would of course have given the party in power per- petuity of rule . Jefferson grew so suspicious of these ...
... amendment to the naturalization laws . But instead of an army of fifty thousand as Hamilton de- sired , ten thousand of which were to be cavalry , they ordered that thirteen thousand men should be armed and equipped as a provisional ...
... Amendment of the Naturalization laws , excluding foreigners for sixteen years before naturalization , would have killed off most of the voters from American citi- zenship , and were of such a tyrannous nature that Ham- ilton himself ...
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June 25 1798 2 The Sedition Act July 14 1798 | 97 |
CHAPTER III | 105 |
ugees in New York 2 Letter of Hamilton to | 150 |
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tory to the United States Senate 2 President Jef | 198 |
SOUTH CAROLINA NULLIFICATION IN 1832 | 241 |
Proposal of Canning 2 President Monroes Mes | 294 |
CHAPTER VII | 328 |
CONCLUDING | 435 |
from Hon T M Cooley on Centralization 2 | 449 |
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Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six ... Edward Payson Powell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1898 |
Nullification and Secession in the United States: A History of the Six ... Edward Payson Powell Prikaz kratkega opisa - 1897 |