Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions: Considered in Reference to the Constitution and HistoricallyLoring, Caleb William
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Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions: Considered in Reference to the Constitution and Historically
Loring, Caleb William
Nullification (States' rights); Secession
Hamilton, Alexander, proposed plan for a strong government not favored
in the convention, 54, 55;
his speech as to democracy, 55;
promised support of Constitution, 68;
correspondence with Madison, 72;
successful support of the adoption of the Constitution by New York,
72;
states in the _Federalist_ the supremacy of the judicial power of
the United States, 129
Hartford convention, called by Massachusetts, discontent of the State,
131;
resolutions passed did not assert State sovereignty, but proposed
amendments to Constitution, 131, 132
Hayne, Robert Y., denunciation of the Eastern States, 8;
his doctrine, 9;
approval of, by citizens of Charleston, 138
Henry, Patrick, Lodge’s assertion as to his opinion, 5;
strenuous objection to adoption of the Constitution as national, 70,
71;
opposition to the Virginia resolutions, 113;
his declaration that Virginia was to the United States as a county
to Virginia, 113, 114
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Iredell, James, dissenting opinion in Chisholm against Georgia was not
by reason of sovereignty of Georgia, 83
Ireland, bill of 1886 for home rule, 40
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Jackson, Andrew, his proclamation against nullification, 21, 22;
his popularity and arbitrary exercise of power, 23;
his character and early life, 143;
experience in politics and law, 144;
proclamation of his own work, 142, 143, 145;
threat to hang Calhoun, 22;
collected duties after South Carolina declared they should not be
levied, 145, _note_, 146
Jay, John, wrote, “the convention and people agreed a National
Government was necessary,” 71, 72;
his opinion in Chisholm _vs._ Georgia as to sovereignty of United
States, 80, 81
Jefferson, Thomas, reputed author of Kentucky resolutions, 88;
approval of coercing States, 93;
became president immediately after passage of Kentucky resolutions,
116;
his inaugural address national, 116-118;
approved of bills in favor of a national road, 118;
approval of the use of the army and navy against Pennsylvania in the
Gideon Olmstead case, 118-121;
approval of annexation of Louisiana, 123;
opinion as to nullification and secession, 125;
opposition to Alien and Sedition laws, 126, 127;
national views, the embargo, 129, 130;
prescribed _Federalist_ as text-book in University of Virginia, 128,
129
Judiciary of the United States, made supreme by the Constitution, 37;
power to decide on laws of Congress, 49, 50;
supremacy of the Government uniformly sustained by it, 148-151
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