The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861The Constitution in Congress series has been called nothing less than a biography of the US Constitution for its in-depth examination of the role that the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation. This third volume in the series, the early installments of which dealt with the Federalist and Jeffersonian eras, continues this examination with the Jacksonian revolution of 1829 and subsequent efforts by Democrats to dismantle Henry Clay’s celebrated “American System” of nationalist economics. David P. Currie covers the political events of the period leading up to the start of the Civil War, showing how the slavery question, although seldom overtly discussed in the debates included in this volume, underlies the Southern insistence on strict interpretation of federal powers. Like its predecessors, The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs will be an invaluable reference for legal scholars and constitutional historians alike. |
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... bill to authorize the Government to purchase stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company, which had been organized to construct a road between Lexington and the Ohio River, all within the state of ...
... bill to authorize the Government to purchase stock in the Maysville, Washington, Paris, and Lexington Turnpike Road Company, which had been organized to construct a road between Lexington and the Ohio River, all within the state of ...
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... bill that was before him. For the understanding was only that Congress could finance improvements that benefited the nation as a whole, and the Maysville Road was one “of purely local character”: It has no connection with any ...
... bill that was before him. For the understanding was only that Congress could finance improvements that benefited the nation as a whole, and the Maysville Road was one “of purely local character”: It has no connection with any ...
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... bill on identical grounds,21 and he soon pocket-vetoed an omnibus bill for the construction of navigation aids and the improvement of harbors because “it also contains appropriations for surveys of a local character, which I can not ...
... bill on identical grounds,21 and he soon pocket-vetoed an omnibus bill for the construction of navigation aids and the improvement of harbors because “it also contains appropriations for surveys of a local character, which I can not ...
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... bill making direct appropriations for such objects I would not have withheld my assent.23 Indeed, barely a month before vetoing appropriations for the Maysville Road on the ground that its benefits were “local,” Jackson had ...
... bill making direct appropriations for such objects I would not have withheld my assent.23 Indeed, barely a month before vetoing appropriations for the Maysville Road on the ground that its benefits were “local,” Jackson had ...
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... bills to pay for repair of the Cumberland Road and other existing improvements;33 once a road had been built, it ... bill in 1844, for example, Tyler echoed Jackson's distinction between national and local improvements,39 but he went ...
... bills to pay for repair of the Cumberland Road and other existing improvements;33 once a road had been built, it ... bill in 1844, for example, Tyler echoed Jackson's distinction between national and local improvements,39 but he went ...
Contents
The Kitchen Sink
| 121 |
Conclusion | 278 |
Dramatis Personae | 281 |
Appendix B Principal Officers 18291861 | 303 |
Appendix C The Constitution of the United States | 311 |
Index | 327 |
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The Constitution in Congress: Democrats and Whigs, 1829-1861 David P. Currie No preview available - 2013 |
The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861, Volume 4 David P. Currie No preview available - 2006 |
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