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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... colonies to aid her in paying this debt . The colonists denied the right and legality of any such enactment , while they were not represented in Parliament . was at least a new departure in English legislation . In 1761 , Otis published ...
... colonies resisted . Massachusetts invited a General Congress of the col- onies to meet in New York , October 7 , 1765. Nine colonies which were there represented , Massachusetts , Rhode Island , Connecticut , Pennsylvania , Maryland ...
... colonies and won it . It laid taxes , it conducted war , it negotiated treaties ; its only credentials of authority being the exigencies of the times . The history of legis- lation before or since shows nothing more admirable for ...
... colonies that had such diverse social customs , religious opinions , and commercial interests . It was not believed possible that any system of frictionless co - operation could be devised . Others preferred at once to arrange for three ...
... colonies . INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE DEPUTIES APPOINTED BY VIRGINIA , IN 1774 , TO MEET IN GENERAL CON- GRESS The unhappy disputes between Great Britain and her American colonies , which began about the third year of the reign of his present ...
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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 |
PAGE | 153 |
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 |