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The Webster-Hayne Debate : defining nationhood in the early American republic / Christopher Childers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Childers, Christopher, author.
- Series:
- Witness to history
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.
- Webster, Daniel.
- Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839.
- Hayne, Robert Young.
- Foot's resolution (1829).
- Nullification (States' rights)--Speeches in Congress.
- Nullification (States' rights).
- States' rights (American politics)--Speeches in Congress.
- States' rights (American politics).
- Foot's resolution, 1829.
- United States--Politics and government--1829-1837.
- United States.
- Politics and government.
- Genre:
- Speeches.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 165 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "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 nullification of a federal tariff, Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina took part in a heated debate that landed on the question of union--its nature and its value in a federal republic. Christopher Childers treats this debate as an important moment in the Early Republic, one in which spokesmen for the generation that followed the founders parsed the difference between a confederation of states, any one of which could decide whether to leave the compact of 1789, and a lasting union based on the principles of the revolution"-- Provided by publisher.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421426136
- 9781421426143
- 1421426137
- 1421426145
- OCLC:
- 1030901329
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