The Webster-Hayne Debate : defining nationhood in the early American republic /
The Webster-Hayne Debate centers on the question that consumed the early republic. Did state sovereignty or the federal Constitution rightfully claim preeminence? Begun in 1830 during a Senate discussion of western land policy and continuing through the South Carolina legislature's nullificatio...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
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| Summary: | The Webster-Hayne Debate centers on the question that consumed the early republic. Did state sovereignty or the federal Constitution rightfully claim preeminence? Begun in 1830 during a Senate discussion of western land policy and continuing through the South Carolina legislature's nullification of a federal tariff, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina took part in a heated debate that landed on the question of union, its nature and its value in a federal republic. Christopher Childers treats this debate as an important moment in the early republic, one in which spokesmen for the generation that followed the founders parsed the difference between a confederation of states, any one of which could decide whether to leave the compact of 1789, and a lasting union based on the principles of the revolution. |
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| Physical Description: | xii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781421426136 9781421426143 1421426137 1421426145 |