Joint Resolution Relative to the Decision of the United States Supreme Court
Source: Joint Resolution Relative to the Decision of the United States Supreme Court, Reversing Decision of the Supreme Court of Wisconsin, General Laws of Wisconsin, 1859, 247–248, https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/document/acts/1859/JR4.pdf. Whereas, The […]
South Carolina Ordinance of Nullification
Source: Proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina upon the Subject of Nullification: Including the Remarks of Governor Hamilton, on Taking the President’s Chair; the Ordinance Nullifying the Tariff Laws […]
Resolutions Regarding the Enforcement Act for the Embargo
Source: Herman V. Ames, State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States (1900; Law Book Exchange, 2006), 34–36, https://www.google.com/books/edition/State_Documents_on_Federal_Relations/Bw8jd_zKuwIC?hl=en&gbpv=1&bsq. On viewing these provisions of the act under […]
Report of 1800, Virginia General Assembly
Source: “The Report of 1800, [7 January] 1800,” Founders Online, National Archives, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Madison/01-17-02-0202. Whatever room might be found in the proceedings of some of the states, who have disapproved of […]
Response to the Virginia Resolutions
Source: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field (DOCID+@lit(ed00493)). The legislature of Massachusetts, having taken into serious consideration the resolutions of the […]
The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, to Their Constituents
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Source: Nathaniel Breading, Eleazer Oswald, Pennsylvania Convention, and Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection, The Address and Reasons of Dissent of the Minority of the Convention, of the State of Pennsylvania, to Their […]
Resolution Submitting the Thirteenth Amendment to the States
Thirty-Eighth Congress of the United States. A Resolution Submitting to the Legislatures of the several States a proposition to amend the Constitution of the United States. Resolved by the Senate […]
Protest in Illinois Legislature on Slavery
Resolutions upon the subject of domestic slavery having passed both branches of the General Assembly at its present session, the undersigned hereby protest against the passage of the same. They […]
The Congress Sends Twelve Amendments to the States
Source: The Essential Bill of Rights, ed. Gordon Lloyd and Margie Lloyd, (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1998), 353-355. Article the first . . . After the first enumeration […]
House Approves Seventeen Amendments
ARTICLE THE FIRST After the first enumeration, required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number shall amount to […]