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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... executive so chose ; and masters of vessels must always make report , on arrival , of all aliens on board . These acts were seconded by a proposition of the Massachusetts legis- lature to amend the Constitution , prohibiting from ...
... Executive have thus negatived the Court , but also Congress . In the violent struggle of reconstruction which followed the War of Secession , Congress , while impeaching the President as surpassing his constitutional rights ...
... executive , more than the executive to decide for them . But the opinion which gives to the Judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not — not only for themselves in their own sphere of action , but for the ...
... executive not only dispenses the honors but holds the sword of the community ; the legislature not only commands the purse but prescribes the rules by which the duties and rights of every citizen are to be regulated ; the judiciary on ...
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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 |