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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... questions involved : First , who were the contracting parties to the formation of the United States ; Second , who should decide whether Congres- sional enactments were Constitutional - The people the final arbiter - Conflicts with the ...
... question one both of economics and morals - Disunion threatened -Compromise efforts of 1850 - Freedom declared na- tional - Slavery declared national - Abolition of Com- promises in 1854 - Election of Lincoln - Secession War - Free ...
... question , Did every member of Congress on the 4th of July , 1776 , in fact cordially approve of the Declaration of Independence , replied : " Majorities were constantly against it . For many days the majority depended on Mr. Hewes of ...
... in whose rice swamps negroes died so fast , should they be prevented from importing more . " Rutledge of South Carolina added : " Religion and humanity have nothing to do with this question . In- 8 Nullification and Secession.
... question . In- terest alone is the governing principle with nations . " He hinted that New England would find the slave trade for her interest , as the negroes would be imported in her vessels . At any rate the South would form a Union ...
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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 |