 I cannot conceive that there can be a middle course between submission to the laws, when regularly pronounced constitutional, on the one hand, and open resistance, which is revolution or rebellion, on the other.  The Southern Review - Página 1681830Visualização integral - Acerca deste livro
 | Marion Mills Miller - 1913 - 472 páginas
...admit it. If the gentleman had intended no more than to assert the right of revolution, for justifiahle cause, he would have said only what all agree to....Congress cannot be maintained but on the ground of the inalienable right of man to resist oppression; that is to say upon the ground of revolution. I admit... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1914 - 786 páginas
...intended no more than to asset4 the right of revolution for justifiable cause, he 256 THE REPLY TO HAYNE. would have said only what all agree to. But I cannot...revolution or rebellion, on the other. I say, the right «£ a State to annul a law of Congress cannot be maintained, but on the ground of the inalienable... | |
 | Woodrow Wilson - 1918 - 382 páginas
...of the gentleman: I do not admit it. If the gentleman had intended no more than to assert the right of revolution, for justifiable cause, he would have...Congress, cannot be maintained but on the ground of the unahenable right of man to resist oppression; that is to say, upon the ground of revolution. I admit... | |
 | William Backus Guitteau - 1919 - 730 páginas
...Pope in the Administration Building, Dartmouth College. middle course " between submission to the laws on the one hand, and open resistance, which is revolution or rebellion, on the other." The Union is the agent, not of the states, but of the people. The national constitution and government... | |
 | 1924 - 512 páginas
...predecessors. See Webster's Reply to Hayne. "If the gentleman had intended no more than to assert the right of revolution for justifiable cause, he would have said only what all agree to." (Webster, Reply to Hayne, World's Famous Orations, Vol. IX, p. 45.) Of those contemporaries Yancey... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 páginas
...of the gentleman. I do not admit it. If the gentleman had intended no more than to assert tho right of revolution for justifiable cause, he would have...Congress cannot be maintained, but on the ground of the inalienable right of man to resist oppression ; that is to say, upon the ground of revolution. I admit... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 1979 - 414 páginas
...resistance to the rule-or-ruin statecraft of the nullifiers will always remain his finest hour. There is no "middle course between submission to the laws, when...resistance, which is revolution or rebellion, on the other," he declared in his debate with Hayne. If the South Carolinians were to resist the law, they would have... | |
 | Robert A. Ferguson - 1984 - 456 páginas
...interrupt a law for lesser offense. "I cannot conceive that there can be a middle course," Webster argues, "between submission to the laws, when regularly pronounced...resistance, which is revolution or rebellion, on the other." To dramatize the distinction the debater then separates the irresponsibility of mere "feelings" from... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - 2000 - 500 páginas
...seeking formal constitutional revision or invoking the right of revolution. Webster could not conceive of "a middle course, between submission to the laws,...resistance, which is revolution or rebellion, on the other."167 As Webster put it: This no one doubts, and this, in my opinion, is all that he who framed... | |
 | Craig R. Smith - 2005 - 310 páginas
...the Constitution is for the people, not the states, would not allow Hayne to succeed with this ploy: "I say the right of a state to annul a law of Congress cannot be maintained but on the ground of the inalienable right of man to resist oppression. . . . But I do not admit that under the Constitution... | |
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