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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... Popular Government - Closing review . APPENDIX TO CONCLUDING CHAPTER .- ( 1 ) Extract from Hon . T. M. Cooley on Centralization . ( 2 ) Ex- tract from Hon . Thomas F. Bayard on Individual Freedom . INDEX . PAGE 4II · 453 NULLIFICATION ...
... popular representation was finally injected into the old scheme , which had been purely an affair of States . Those who insisted on an equality among the States were placated by creating a Senate which should express the federated ...
... of States . The judicial department , quite apart from popular election , was to be the creation of the President and the Senate ; while the judges thus con- stituted were out of reach of the people ; except Introductory 9.
... popular govern- ment . Such men as these formed the core of the Federal party . Among them were not a few who were more than doubtful of the Republic . Hamilton declared that the most appropriate name for the new nation would be " a ...
... popular government . The enemies of republicanism had only to cry out Jacobin to create prejudice . The doubters feared that the American people also would drift into excesses . The Whiskey Rebellion added counsel to timidity . A few ...
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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 |