 | Joseph Villiers Denney - 1910 - 348 pages
...revenues. If you make requisitions and they are not complied with what is to be done? It has been observed to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects...case can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any large State, should refuse and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
 | Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines - 1911 - 884 pages
...States, in their political capacity." Alexander Hamilton said in the New York Ratifying Convention : "To coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised." Edmund Randolph, one of the most advanced of the Federalists, said that coercion was out of the question.... | |
 | Robert Irving Fulton, Thomas Clarkson Trueblood - 1912 - 428 pages
...they are not complied with, what is to be done ? It has been well observed that to coerce the state is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised....case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war ? Suppose Massachusetts or any large state should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them... | |
 | Frederick Bertrand Robinson - 1915 - 482 pages
...they are not complied with, what is to be done? It has been well observed that to coerce the state is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised....single state ; this being the case, can we suppose it to be wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts or any other large state should refuse, and... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1917 - 112 pages
...are not complied with, what is to be done? It has been observed, to coerce the States is one of f/ the maddest projects that was ever devised. A failure...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? " -\ In the next place, he expressed the opinion that the States themselves would not agree to coerce... | |
 | Bunford Samuel - 1920 - 416 pages
..."If you make requisitions, and they are not complied with, what is to be done ? It has been observed, to coerce the states is one of the maddest projects...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any large state, should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
 | James Brown Scott - 1920 - 638 pages
...Convention advocating the ratification of the Constitution. " It has been observed," he said, that " to coerce the states is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised." And he asked, " can we believe that one state will ever suffer itself to be used as an instrument of... | |
 | Clarence Eugene Miner - 1921 - 202 pages
...If you make requisitions, and they are not complied with, what is to be done? It has been observed to coerce the states is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised." Then after showing the hopelessness of trying to revise the old Confederation, Hamilton took up the... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - 1923 - 630 pages
...the innocent and guilty, in the same calamity." ยง Mr. Hamilton, in the Convention of New York, said: "To coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. . . . WThat picture does this idea present to our view? A complying State at war with a non-complying... | |
 | Fannie Eoline Selph - 1928 - 418 pages
...the United States. Congress can no more abolish the state government than it can dissolve the union. To coerce the states is one of the maddest projects, that was ever devised. The union is dependent on the state governments for its chief magistrate and its senate. It would be... | |
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It has been observed to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be confined to a single State. This being the case can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose... 
