The book State Sovereignty And the Doctrine of Coercion was written by author Wm D William Dennison Porter Here you can read free online of State Sovereignty And the Doctrine of Coercion book, rate and share your impressions in comments. If you don't know what to write, just answer the question: Why is State Sovereignty And the Doctrine of Coercion a good or bad book?
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The reasons against it, assigned in debate, were unanswered and unanswerable; and well might the people of the States, with a knowledge of the proceedings of the Convention, rest in security that no coercion of arms, no declaration of war, as Mr. Madison properly calls it, would or could be made against them in their sovereign or collective capacity by the political machine which they called into action ! Upon examination of the ratifications of the Federal Constitu- tion by the respective Stat...e Conventions, it appears that several of them asserted, in unequivocal language, the right of the people to resume the powers granted, whenever the same should beeper- 17 verted io their injury or oppression. Nor does any exception appear to have been taken to such declarations. It was with this impression and upon this condition that the States ratified the Constitution; and when some States affirmed the right exp ressly, it was done only from abundant caution, and as declaratory of the common understanding.
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