 | John Phillip Reid - 2000 - 500 pages
...declare an act of Congress void, but also to prohibit its execution. Jackson regarded such a claim to be "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...and destructive of the great object for which it was formed."230 He rejected the assertion that the Union rested on a "compact between sovereign States... | |
 | David Brion Davis, Steven Mintz - 1998 - 607 pages
...South Carolina's attempt to "nullify" the tariff laws passed in 1828 and 1832. According to Jackson, "the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, [is] INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION,... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 2001 - 416 pages
...Charleston harbor and collecting a force of United States troops along the Carolina border. " I consider the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed...state, incompatible with the existence of the Union," he wrote; and when a South Carolina congressman, about to go home, asked the President if he had any... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - 2001 - 248 pages
...that the states were sovereign within their own sphere, but that the nullification of federal law was "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution."10 And like Madison, Jackson adhered to the concept of divided or dual sovereignty. As... | |
 | Michael Waldman - 363 pages
...address on the eve of the Civil War. PROCLAMATION ON NULLIFICATION Published December 10, 1832 ... I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the...Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent u-ith every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was... | |
 | Larry D. Kramer - 2004 - 376 pages
...this State."63 President Jackson responded with a Proclamation of his own, declaring nullification "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...destructive of the great object for 'which it was formed."64 A month later, Jackson followed up with a request to Congress for authorization to deal... | |
 | David P. Currie - 2005 - 369 pages
...existence on the local interest, the party spirit, of a State, or of a prevailing faction of a State." I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the...destructive of the great object for which it was formed. 101 The tariff, Jackson went on, was not unconstitutional. It had been enacted pursuant to the express... | |
 | David P. Currie - 2005 - 369 pages
...existence on the local interest, the party spirit, of a State, or of a prevailing faction of a State." I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the...and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.101 The tariff, Jackson went on, was not unconstitutional. It had been enacted pursuant to the... | |
 | Larry D. Mansch - 2005 - 246 pages
...danger, the source of our prosperity in peace." Jackson forcefully stated that he considered any attempt to "annul a law of the United States, assumed by one...and destructive of the great object for which it was formed."14 Jackson's message carried great weight, and Congress, inspired by the tireless efforts of... | |
 | Ronald J. Pestritto, Thomas G. West - 2005 - 318 pages
...clearly, that the claim of a state, any state, to be free to annul a legitimately passed federal law was "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...and destructive of the great object for which it was formed."4'' Historical practice, compact theory, and constitutional structure, in other words, all... | |
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I consider then the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, INCOMPATIBLE WITH THE EXISTENCE OF THE UNION, CONTRADICTED EXPRESSLY BY THE LETTER OF THE CONSTITUTION, UNAUTHORIZED BY ITS SPIRIT, INCONSISTENT WITH EVERY PRINCIPLE... 
