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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| 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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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.