Report of the joint select committee of the legislature of Massachusetts, upon so much of the governor's address at the opening of the present session, as relates to the proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina.
1833
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Report of the joint select committee of the legislature of Massachusetts, upon so much of the governor's address at the opening of the present session, as relates to the proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina.
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Boston : Dutton and Wentworth, State Printers, 1833.
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Includes resolutions entitled "Resolves in relation to the proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina."
"Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled: That the Constitution of the United States of America is a solemn social compact ... and that no citizen, State, or other member of the body politic, has a right in any shape, or under any pretext, to annul or prevent the execution of the said Constitution, laws or treaties, or any of them, excepting in such extreme cases as justify a violent resistance to the laws on the principle of the natural and indefeasible prerogative of self-defence against intolerable oppression. Resolved, That the right claimed by the Convention of South Carolina for that State, of annulling any law of the United States which it may deem unconstitutional, is unauthorized by the letter or spirit of the Constitution--not supported by any contemporaneous exposition of that instrument, or by the practice under it: --inconsistent with any correct notion of the nature of political society, and tending, in practice, to the subversion of public tranquillity, and the complete overthrow of the Government."--Page 27-28.
"Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court assembled: That the Constitution of the United States of America is a solemn social compact ... and that no citizen, State, or other member of the body politic, has a right in any shape, or under any pretext, to annul or prevent the execution of the said Constitution, laws or treaties, or any of them, excepting in such extreme cases as justify a violent resistance to the laws on the principle of the natural and indefeasible prerogative of self-defence against intolerable oppression. Resolved, That the right claimed by the Convention of South Carolina for that State, of annulling any law of the United States which it may deem unconstitutional, is unauthorized by the letter or spirit of the Constitution--not supported by any contemporaneous exposition of that instrument, or by the practice under it: --inconsistent with any correct notion of the nature of political society, and tending, in practice, to the subversion of public tranquillity, and the complete overthrow of the Government."--Page 27-28.
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (LLMC Digital, viewed September 1, 2023).
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Resolves in relation to the proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina.
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Print version: Massachusetts. General Court. Joint Select Committee on Nullification in South Carolina. Report of the Joint select committee of the legislature of Massachusetts, upon so much of the governor's address at the opening of the present session as relates to the proceedings of the Convention of South Carolina. Boston, Dutton and Wentworth, State printers, 1833 (OCoLC)6103529
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