THE VIRGINIA DOCTRINES, THE COMMONWEALTH AND THE REPUBLIC : THE ROLE OF FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES IN VIRGINIA POLITICS, 1798-1833.

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Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

MALONE, KATHRYN RUTH.

Contributor:

University of Pennsylvania.

Subjects (All):

United States--History.

United States.

History.

0337.

Local Subjects:

0337.

Physical Description:

499 pages

Contained In:

Dissertation Abstracts International 42-11A.

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Summary:

When the General Assembly of Virginia denounced the Alien and Sedition Laws in December 1798, it insisted that its protest was one of principle. The Virginians recognized the existence of a body of fundamental principles which established standards by which the wisdom and legitimacy of all political phenomena ought to have been judged. Those principles, their antecedents and corallaries were the foundation of a powerful ideology which had a profound influence on Virginia's internal political development, as well as on relations between the Commonwealth and the nation during the first three decades of the nineteenth century.

This study traces the evolution of that body of principles between the controversy over the Alien and Sedition laws in 1798 and the end of the Nullification crisis in 1833. It examines the interaction of those principles with the behavior of Virginia's political leaders as they dealt with such issues as the passage of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 and Report of 1800, the Quid Schism, the War of 1812 and the Hartford Convention, and national constitutional disputes over McCulloch v. Maryland, the Missouri Crisis, internal improvements and protective tariffs.

In addition to national issues, the study considers the role played by fundamental principles within Virginia in disputes over constitutional reform which culminated in the Constitutional Convention of 1829-30, and in the Slavery Debates of 1832. The response to Nullification within Virginia concludes an examination of the development of the doctrine of State Rights in Virginia as an integral part of an established political creed.

Notes:

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 42-11, Section: A, page: 4907.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Pennsylvania, 1981.

Local Notes:

School code: 0175.

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