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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Childers, Christopher (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, [2018]
Series:Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • We the states or we the people?
  • New England's march toward nationalism
  • The South's march toward sectionalism
  • The West asserts its power
  • The great debate
  • Nullification and nationhood
  • The Webster-Hayne Debate in historical memory.