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The Webster-Hayne Debate : defining nationhood in the early American republic

Title
The Webster-Hayne Debate : defining nationhood in the early American republic / Christopher Childers, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas.
Author
Childers, Christopher
Publication
  • Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
  • ©2018

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Description
xii, 165 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
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"--
Series Statement
Witness to history
Uniform Title
Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
Subject
  • Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
  • Hayne, Robert Young, 1791-1839
  • Foot's resolution (1829)
  • 1829-1837
  • Nullification (States' rights) > Speeches in Congress
  • States' rights (American politics) > Speeches in Congress
  • Foot's resolution, 1829
  • Nullification (States' rights)
  • Politics and government
  • States' rights (American politics)
  • United States > Politics and government > 1829-1837
  • United States
Genre/Form
Speeches.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.
Contents
Prologue : 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 -- Epilogue : the Webster-Hayne Debate in historical memory.
Call Number
JFE 18-7878
ISBN
  • 9781421426136
  • 1421426137
  • 9781421426143
  • 1421426145
LCCN
  • 2017054173
  • 40028460842
OCLC
1030901329
Author
Childers, Christopher, author.
Title
The Webster-Hayne Debate : defining nationhood in the early American republic / Christopher Childers, Pittsburgh State University, Pittsburgh, Kansas.
Publisher
Baltimore, Maryland : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018.
Copyright Date
©2018
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
unmediated
Type of Carrier
volume
Series
Witness to history
Witness to history (Baltimore, Md.)
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 147-159) and index.
Chronological Term
1829-1837
Other Standard Identifier
40028460842
Research Call Number
JFE 18-7878
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