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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... wrote : We have erred in this point , by copying England , where certainly it is a good thing to have the judges independent of the king . That there should be public functionaries independent of the nation , whatever may be their ...
... wrote in 1786 : " I fear that the people of Ken- tucky think of separating , not only from Virginia , but also from the Confederacy . I should think this a most calamitous event . Our Confederacy must be viewed as the nest from which ...
... wrote the Summary View of the Rights of British America ; in which he told King George that " kings are the servants , not proprietors of the people ; and that the whole art of government is the act of being honest . " At thirty - three ...
... wrote , I am still trying to prop the frail and worthless fabric . " On an- other occasion he averred : " I myself am affectionately attached to the republican theory , and desire to demon- strate its practical success . But as to State ...
... wrote that the treaty of Paris had only gained this for us that we could now fight " without halters around our necks . ” There is , " he wrote to Jay , " no chance for anything but retaliations , reciprocal prohibitions , and imposts ...
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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 |