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Book Nullification

    Book Details:
  • Author : Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
  • Publisher : Regnery Publishing
  • Release : 2010-06-28
  • ISBN : 1596981490
  • Pages : 322 pages

Download or read book Nullification written by Thomas E. Woods, Jr. and published by Regnery Publishing. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Asserts that nullification is the constitutional remedy envisioned by the nation's founders to be used to resist Federal power. Presents documents showing the rationale used by States in historic debates.

Book Jury Nullification

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  • Author : Clay S. Conrad
  • Publisher : Cato Institute
  • Release : 2013-12-05
  • ISBN : 1939709016
  • Pages : 337 pages

Download or read book Jury Nullification written by Clay S. Conrad and published by Cato Institute. This book was released on 2013-12-05 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founding Fathers guaranteed trial by jury three times in the Constitution—more than any other right—since juries can serve as the final check on government’s power to enforce unjust, immoral, or oppressive laws. But in America today, how independent c

Book Prelude to Civil War

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  • Author : William W. Freehling
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780195076813
  • Pages : 416 pages

Download or read book Prelude to Civil War written by William W. Freehling and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1992 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fresh analysis revises many previous theories on origins & significance of the nullification controversy.

Book Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought

Download or read book Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought written by Sanford Levinson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2016-09-09 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Missouri legislature passes a bill to flout federal gun-control laws it deems unconstitutional. Texas refuses to recognize same-sex marriages, citing the state's sovereignty. The Tenth Amendment Center promotes the “Federal Health Care Nullification Act.” In these and many other similar instances, the spirit of nullification is seeing a resurgence in an ever-more politically fragmented and decentralized America. What this means—in legal, cultural, and historical terms—is the question explored in Nullification and Secession in Modern Constitutional Thought. Bringing together a number of distinguished scholars, the book offers a variety of informed perspectives on what editor Sanford Levinson terms “neo-nullification,” a category that extends from formal declarations on the invalidity of federal law to what might be called “uncooperative federalism.” Mark Tushnet, Mark Graber, James Read, Jared Goldstein, Vicki Jackson, and Alison La Croix are among the contributors who consider a strain of federalism stretching from the framing of the Constitution to the state of Texas's most recent threat to secede from the United States. The authors look at the theory and practice of nullification and secession here and abroad, discussing how contemporary advocates use the text and history of the Constitution to make their cases, and how very different texts and histories influence such movements outside of the United States—in Scotland, for instance, or Catalonia, or Quebec, or even England vis-à-vis the European Union. Together these essays provide a nuanced account of the practical and philosophical implications of a concept that has marked America's troubled times, from the build-up to the Civil War to the struggle over civil rights to battles over the Second Amendment and Obamacare.

Book Olive Branch and Sword

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  • Author : Merrill D. Peterson
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 1999-03-01
  • ISBN : 9780807124970
  • Pages : 152 pages

Download or read book Olive Branch and Sword written by Merrill D. Peterson and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dominated by the personalities of three towering figures of the nation's middle period -- Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and President Andrew Jackson -- Olive Branch and Sword: The Compromise of 1833 tells of the political and rhetorical dueling that brought about the Compromise of 1833, resolving the crisis of the Union caused by South Carolina's nullification of the protective tariff.In 1832 South Carolina's John C. Calhoun denounced the entire protectionist system as unconstitutional, unequal, and founded on selfish sectional interests. Opposing him was Henry Clay, the Kentucky senator and champion of the protectionists. Both Calhoun and Clay had presidential ambitions, and neither could agree on any issue save their common opposition to President Jackson, who seemed to favor a military solution to the South Carolina problem. It was only when Clay, after the most complicated maneuverings, produced the Compromise of 1833 that he, Calhoun, and Jackson could agree to coexist peaceably within the Union.The compromise consisted of two key parts. The Compromise Tariff, written by Clay and approved by Calhoun, provided for the gradual reduction of duties to the revenue level of 20 percent. The Force Bill, enacted at the request of President Jackson, authorized the use of military force, if necessary, to put down nullification in South Carolina. The two acts became, respectively, the olive branch and the sword of the compromise that preserved the peace, the Union, and the Constitution in 1833.A careful study of what has become a neglected event in American political history, Merrill D. Peterson's work spans a period of over thirty years -- sketching the background of national policy out of which nullification arose, detailing the explosive events of 1832 and 1833, and then tracing the consequences of the compromise through the dozen or so years that it remained in public controversy. Considering as well the larger question of decision making and policy making in the Jacksonian republic, Peterson nonetheless never loses sight of the crucial role played by the ambitions, whims, and passions of such men as Calhoun, Clay, and Jackson in determining the course of history.

Book Bloody Flag of Anarchy

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  • Author : Brian C. Neumann
  • Publisher : LSU Press
  • Release : 2022-04-13
  • ISBN : 0807177563
  • Pages : 301 pages

Download or read book Bloody Flag of Anarchy written by Brian C. Neumann and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2022-04-13 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Generations of scholars have debated why the Union collapsed and descended into civil war in the spring of 1861. Turning this question on its head, Brian C. Neumann’s Bloody Flag of Anarchy asks how the fragile Union held together for so long. This fascinating study grapples with this dilemma by reexamining the nullification crisis, one of the greatest political debates of the antebellum era, when the country came perilously close to armed conflict in the winter of 1832–33 after South Carolina declared two tariffs null and void. Enraged by rising taxes and the specter of emancipation, 25,000 South Carolinians volunteered to defend the state against the perceived tyranny of the federal government. Although these radical Nullifiers claimed to speak for all Carolinians, the impasse left the Palmetto State bitterly divided. Forty percent of the state’s voters opposed nullification, and roughly 9,000 men volunteered to fight against their fellow South Carolinians to hold the Union together. Bloody Flag of Anarchy examines the hopes, fears, and ideals of these Union men, who viewed the nation as the last hope of liberty in a world dominated by despotism—a bold yet fragile testament to humanity’s capacity for self-government. They believed that the Union should preserve both liberty and slavery, ensuring peace, property, and prosperity for all white men. Nullification, they feared, would provoke social and political chaos, shattering the Union, destroying the social order, and inciting an apocalyptic racial war. By reframing the nullification crisis, Neumann provides fresh insight into the internal divisions within South Carolina, illuminating a facet of the conflict that has long gone underappreciated. He reveals what the Union meant to Americans in the Jacksonian era and explores the ways both factions deployed conceptions of manhood to mobilize supporters. Nullifiers attacked their opponents as timid “submission men” too cowardly to defend their freedom. Many Unionists pushed back by insisting that “true men” respected the law and shielded their families from the horrors of disunion. Viewing the nullification crisis against the backdrop of global events, they feared that America might fail when the world, witnessing turmoil across Europe and the Caribbean, needed its example the most. By closely examining how the nation avoided a ruinous civil war in the early 1830s, Bloody Flag of Anarchy sheds new light on why America failed three decades later to avoid a similar fate.

Book Summary  Nullification

Download or read book Summary Nullification written by BusinessNews Publishing, and published by Primento. This book was released on 2017-01-30 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The must-read summary of Thomas E. Woods, Jr.'s book: “Nullification: How to Resist Federal Tyranny in the 21st Century”. This complete summary of "Nullification" by Thomas E. Woods, Jr., a prominent American historian and political commentator, presents his argument that it is time for states to take action that is within their power and reject unconstitutional federal laws. His political aim is to empower states to act against Obama's 'socialist' policies and big-government plans, and keep their citizens' wishes and interests in mind. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand the process of nullification and the power it affords to American states • Expand your knowledge of American politics To learn more, read "Nullification" and discover how the nullification process hands power back to states and the people in the event of the government trying to pass unconstitutional federal laws.

Book The Genuine Book of Nullification

Download or read book The Genuine Book of Nullification written by Francis Wilkinson Pickens and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-07-21 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book covers the idea of nullification, which in United States constitutional history, is a legal theory that a state has the right to nullify, or invalidate, any federal laws which that state has deemed unconstitutional with respect to the United States Constitution (as opposed to the state's own constitution). The theory of nullification is based on a view that the states formed the Union by an agreement (or "compact") among the states, and that as creators of the federal government, the states have the final authority to determine the limits of the power of that government. Under this compact theory, the states and not the federal courts are the ultimate interpreters of the extent of the federal government's power. Under this theory, the states therefore may reject, or nullify, federal laws that the states believe are beyond the federal government's constitutional powers. The related idea of interposition is a theory that a state has the right and the duty to "interpose" itself when the federal government enacts laws that the state believes to be unconstitutional. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison set forth the theories of nullification and interposition in the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions in 1798.

Book Strictures on Nullification

Download or read book Strictures on Nullification written by Alexander Hill Everett and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina

Download or read book A Critical Study of Nullification in South Carolina written by David Franklin Houston and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reclaiming the American Revolution

Download or read book Reclaiming the American Revolution written by W. Watkins and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming the American Revolution examines the struggles for political ascendancy between Federalists and the Republicans in the early days of the American Republic. Watkins views the struggle through the lens of the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, charters written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison respectively, that were responses to the Alien and Sedition Acts passed by Federalists that, among other things, made criticism of the federal government a crime. Viewing those acts as a threat to states' rights, as well as indicative of a national government that sought supreme power, the Resolutions restated the principles of the American Revolution and sought to return the nation to the tenets of the Constitution, in which rights for all were protected by checking the power of the national government.

Book State Papers on Nullification

Download or read book State Papers on Nullification written by Massachusetts. General Court. Committee on the Library and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe  Or  The Pretended Riot Explained

Download or read book Indian Nullification of the Unconstitutional Laws of Massachusetts Relative to the Marshpee Tribe Or The Pretended Riot Explained written by William Apess and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gale Researcher Guide for  The Nullification Crisis

Download or read book Gale Researcher Guide for The Nullification Crisis written by J. Benjamin Cronin and published by Gale, Cengage Learning. This book was released on 2018-09-28 with total page 9 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gale Researcher Guide for: The Nullification Crisis is selected from Gale's academic platform Gale Researcher. These study guides provide peer-reviewed articles that allow students early success in finding scholarly materials and to gain the confidence and vocabulary needed to pursue deeper research.

Book Nullification and Secession in the United States

Download or read book Nullification and Secession in the United States written by Edward Payson Powell and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Nullification  Secession Webster   s Argument and the Kentucky and Virginia

Download or read book Nullification Secession Webster s Argument and the Kentucky and Virginia written by Caleb William Loring and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: Nullification, Secession Webster’s Argument and the Kentucky and Virginia by Caleb William Loring