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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... creating a more generous national sentiment ; and a conviction on the part of all sections that political righteousness has not been the exclusive property of any one part of the United States . It is time to deal justly by the South ...
... creation of a General Con- gress , to meet annually , to deliberate on their common interests . The first session of this Congress or assemblage of delegates of the colonies took place in September of the same year . A spontaneous ...
... created or fiat money . Debts were paid in paper . But credit was not given ; and no one trusted his neighbor . The end was insurrection and anarchy . The States began to see that it must be a closer union , or no union at all . ( 7 ...
... creating a Senate which should express the federated principle . This was the first compromise in creating the Republic . At no time was dissolution more formidable than when the smaller States refused to assist in forming a Union which ...
... created the Confederacy , and won united independence ; they now yielded none of this independence in forming " a ... creation of the President and the Senate ; while the judges thus con- stituted were out of reach of the people ; except ...
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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 |