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State of the Union. Message from the President of the United States, on the state of the Union.

House document no. 45, 22nd Congress, 2nd session. Transmits all the relevant documents relating to the South Carolina nullification controversy. First edition. Uncut.

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Speech of Mr. Webster, in the senate, in reply to Mr. Calhoun's speech on the bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports."

Response to John C. Calhoun's bill "Further to provide for the collection of duties on imports," which opposed the tariff bills passed. Webster attacks the states' rights language underlying Calhoun's resolutions, analyzes their language (and that...

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Amend the Constitution of the United States

[Title continued] memorial of citizens of North Carolina, upon the subject of amending the Constitution of the United States.Twenty seven petitioners request: "In case that any State in the Union, either by the Legislature thereof, or by a convention...

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[Two senate motions] [Decimalized .01-.02]

Two motions, one submitted by John C. Calhoun and one by John Norvell. Calhoun's resolution is well-known for establishing the orthodox state rights position. In his resolution, Norvell, the Democratic-Republican Senator from Michigan, agrees with...

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Speech of Waddy Thompson of South Carolina, in the House of Representatives of the United States, being in Committee of the whole on the state of the union.

Favors states' rights and criticizes former President Andrew Jackson as "a man who has done more to break down all the landmarks of the Constitution, and to consolidate all power in this Federal Government, than every other man who has preceded him."...

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Resolutions of the Legislature of Michigan relative to leasing of the mineral lands.

House document no. 204. 29th Congress, 1st session. Discusses Michigan state rights. Denies the right of the federal government to lease federal mineral lands if the state where the lands are located is opposed to it. Includes report of Flavius J...

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In Senate of the United States. April 28, 1828. Mr. Tazewell made the following report:

20th Congress, 1st session, doc no. 178. The Committee on Foreign Relations report declares Congress has no authority to find territory on the coast of Africa for colonization, or to appropriate money for colonization, because such powers are not...

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Resolution of the legislature of Missouri, declaring, in their opinion, that Congress has no power to appropriate moneys to aid the American Colonization Society.

20th Congress, 2d Session, document no. 89. Congress has no power to appropriate money to aid the American Colonization Society (based on strict construction of the Constitution). The resolution mentions the concern that the next step would be...

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Report adopted by the Legislature of Georgia on the resolutions of South Carolina and Ohio ...

Title continues, " ... in relation to the powers of the general government and state rights, and to the subject of slavery." 20th Congress, 2nd session. Report concludes that the writers of the Constitution did not intend all power to be...

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State of South Carolina. Governor's Hayne's message.

A message from the Governor congratulating his state of South Carolina for firmly opposing the original tariff and the Force Act passed by the federal government. Hayne insists that nullification is an "unquestionable right of Sovereignty, under a...

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