The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861University of Chicago Press, 2007年12月1日 - 344 頁 This acclaimed series serves as a biography of the U.S. Constitution, offering an indispensable survey of the congressional history behind its development. In a rare examination of the role that both the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation, The Constitution in Congress shows how the actions and proceedings of these branches reveal perhaps even more about constitutional disputes than Supreme Court decisions of the time. |
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... Southern History Collec- tion of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill , where I was privileged to undertake a modicum of archival research ; the University of Chicago Library for its splendid collec- tion of nineteenth ...
... southern border.5 That is where matters stood when Andrew Jackson became President in 1829. Of the twenty - four states then constituting the Union , twelve were nominally slave and twelve free . But there were still slaves in several ...
... Southern States . " Adams , noting that the committee. On December 12 , 1831 John Quincy Adams , the only ex - President yet to serve in Congress , presented to the House of Representatives fifteen petitions from Pennsylvania citizens to ...
... Southern members objected . The publication of such a document , said Clement C. Clay of Alabama , would be a crime in almost every Southern state . The petition should be received , said Virginia's self - styled " moderate " Henry A ...
... Southern speakers joined in condemning the proposal not to receive petitions as unnecessary and divisive.22 To reject pe- titions at the threshold , said Silas Wright of New York and Felix Grundy of Tennessee , would only inflame public ...
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Diplomacy Expansion and Force | 49 |
The Evil Empire | 131 |
Conclusion | 254 |
Dramatis Personae | 257 |
Principal Officers 18291861 | 279 |
The Constitution of the United States | 287 |
Index | 303 |