 | Fred R. Shapiro - 1993 - 610 pages
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 | Carol Berkin - 1995 - 582 pages
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 | Stephen Skowronek - 1997 - 592 pages
...as the first was in its repudiation. Taking direct aim at the South Carolina radicals, he pronounced "the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed...destructive of the great object for which it was formed."^ He followed up a few weeks later with a proposal to Congress, which became known as the Force Bill,... | |
 | Jonathan M. Atkins - 1997 - 398 pages
...demagogues"; in December, he publicized his official response in a proclamation declaring the doctrine to be "incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted...and destructive of the great object for which it was formed."3 After arguing against the legitimacy of both nullification and secession, Jackson warned... | |
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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... 
