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 pages 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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... Ohio . The fourth in the disagreeable list was the practical with- drawal of the New England States from co - operation in the war of 1812-14 ; ending in a Convention of those States to formulate sectional autonomy . The fifth act was ...
... Ohio said in Congress in 1855 : " Who is to be the judge , in the last resort , of the violation of the Constitution of the United States , by the enactment of a law ? Who is the final arbiter ? The general government ? or the States in ...
... Ohio the Supreme Court of the State found that " no law of Congress can compel a State officer to deliver up an alleged criminal to the governor of Kentucky . " The Supreme Court , says Judge Biddle , pathetically con- fessed ...
... Ohio was most protracted and bitter . The State adopted the very same expedient for killing national banks that was adopted in 1862 by Congress to kill State banks . It undertook to tax them to death . In the end the State was beaten ...
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Contents
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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 |