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Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution

Author : Peter Charles Hoffer
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 070063200X
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution written by Peter Charles Hoffer and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2021-03-26 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Webster and the Unfinished Constitution reveals Webster as the foremost constitutional lawyer of his day. Peter Charles Hoffer builds a persuasive case that Webster was more than a skilled practitioner who rose rapidly from his hardscrabble New Hampshire origins. Hoffer thoroughly documents the ways in which Webster was an innovative jurist. While Chief Justice John Marshall gets credit for much of our early constitutional jurisprudence, in fact in a series of key cases Marshall simply borrowed Webster’s oral and written arguments. For Webster, Marshall, and many lawyers and jurists of their day, professions of adherence to the Constitution were universal. Yet they knew that the Constitution could not be fixed in time; its text needed to be read in light of the rapidly transforming early republic and antebellum eras or it would become irrelevant. As Chief Justice Marshall explained in Bank of the United States v. Deveaux (1809): “A constitution, from its nature, deals in generals, not in detail. Its framers cannot perceive minute distinctions which arise in the progress of the nation, and therefore confine it to the establishment of broad and general principles.” But were these “broad and general principles” themselves fixed? For Webster there were landmarks: the Contract Clause and the Commerce Clause. While others were exploring and surveying the Northwest Territory and the Louisiana Purchase, Webster set out to map the spaces in the constitutional and legal landscape that were unmarked. Peter Charles Hoffer provides an insightful and timely study of how Webster’s analysis of three key constitutional issues is relevant to today’s constitutional conflicts: the relationship between law and politics, between public policy and private rights, and between the federal government and the states, all of which remain contentious in our constitutional jurisprudence and crucial to our constitutional order.

Daniel Webster

Author : Robert Vincent Remini
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393045529
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (455 download)

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Download or read book Daniel Webster written by Robert Vincent Remini and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1997 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this monumental new biography, Robert V. Remini gives us a full life of Webster from his birth, early schooling, and rapid rise as a lawyer and politician in New Hampshire to his equally successful career in Massachusetts where he moved in 1816. Remini treats both the man and his time as they tangle in issues such as westward expansion, growth of democracy, market revolution, slavery and abolitionism, the National Bank, and tariff issues. Webster's famous speeches are fully discussed as are his relations with the other two of the "great triumvirate", Henry Clay and John C. Calhoun. Throughout, Remini pays close attention to Webster's personal life - perhaps more than Webster would have liked - his relationships with family and friends, and his murky financial dealings with men of wealth and influence.

Heirs of the Founders

Author : H. W. Brands
Publisher : Anchor
ISBN 13 : 0385542542
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (855 download)

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Download or read book Heirs of the Founders written by H. W. Brands and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From New York Times bestselling historian H. W. Brands comes the riveting story of how, in nineteenth-century America, a new set of political giants battled to complete the unfinished work of the Founding Fathers and decide the future of our democracy In the early 1800s, three young men strode onto the national stage, elected to Congress at a moment when the Founding Fathers were beginning to retire to their farms. Daniel Webster of Massachusetts, a champion orator known for his eloquence, spoke for the North and its business class. Henry Clay of Kentucky, as dashing as he was ambitious, embodied the hopes of the rising West. South Carolina's John Calhoun, with piercing eyes and an even more piercing intellect, defended the South and slavery. Together these heirs of Washington, Jefferson and Adams took the country to war, battled one another for the presidency and set themselves the task of finishing the work the Founders had left undone. Their rise was marked by dramatic duels, fierce debates, scandal and political betrayal. Yet each in his own way sought to remedy the two glaring flaws in the Constitution: its refusal to specify where authority ultimately rested, with the states or the nation, and its unwillingness to address the essential incompatibility of republicanism and slavery. They wrestled with these issues for four decades, arguing bitterly and hammering out political compromises that held the Union together, but only just. Then, in 1850, when California moved to join the Union as a free state, "the immortal trio" had one last chance to save the country from the real risk of civil war. But, by that point, they had never been further apart. Thrillingly and authoritatively, H. W. Brands narrates an epic American rivalry and the little-known drama of the dangerous early years of our democracy.

Keeping Faith with the Constitution

Author : Goodwin Liu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199752834
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Keeping Faith with the Constitution written by Goodwin Liu and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-05 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chief Justice John Marshall argued that a constitution "requires that only its great outlines should be marked [and] its important objects designated." Ours is "intended to endure for ages to come, and consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs." In recent years, Marshall's great truths have been challenged by proponents of originalism and strict construction. Such legal thinkers as Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia argue that the Constitution must be construed and applied as it was when the Framers wrote it. In Keeping Faith with the Constitution, three legal authorities make the case for Marshall's vision. They describe their approach as "constitutional fidelity"--not to how the Framers would have applied the Constitution, but to the text and principles of the Constitution itself. The original understanding of the text is one source of interpretation, but not the only one; to preserve the meaning and authority of the document, to keep it vital, applications of the Constitution must be shaped by precedent, historical experience, practical consequence, and societal change. The authors range across the history of constitutional interpretation to show how this approach has been the source of our greatest advances, from Brown v. Board of Education to the New Deal, from the Miranda decision to the expansion of women's rights. They delve into the complexities of voting rights, the malapportionment of legislative districts, speech freedoms, civil liberties and the War on Terror, and the evolution of checks and balances. The Constitution's framers could never have imagined DNA, global warming, or even women's equality. Yet these and many more realities shape our lives and outlook. Our Constitution will remain vital into our changing future, the authors write, if judges remain true to this rich tradition of adaptation and fidelity.

The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory

Author : Donald L. Drakeman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108485286
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Hollow Core of Constitutional Theory written by Donald L. Drakeman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-04-08 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major scholarly defense of the centrality of the Framers' intentions in constitutional interpretation to appear in years.

Lincoln at Gettysburg

Author : Garry Wills
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439126453
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Lincoln at Gettysburg written by Garry Wills and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-12-11 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The power of words has rarely been given a more compelling demonstration than in the Gettysburg Address. Lincoln was asked to memorialize the gruesome battle. Instead, he gave the whole nation "a new birth of freedom" in the space of a mere 272 words. His entire life and previous training, and his deep political experience went into this, his revolutionary masterpiece. By examining both the address and Lincoln in their historical moment and cultural frame, Wills breathes new life into words we thought we knew, and reveals much about a president so mythologized but often misunderstood. Wills shows how Lincoln came to change the world and to effect an intellectual revolution, how his words had to and did complete the work of the guns, and how Lincoln wove a spell that has not yet been broken.

The Works of Daniel Webster ...

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 634 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Webster ... written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 634 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The First Congress

Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451692110
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The First Congress written by Fergus M. Bordewich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2017-02-21 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The little known story of perhaps the most productive Congress in US history, the First Federal Congress of 1789-1791. The First Congress was the most important in US history, says prizewinning author and historian Fergus Bordewich, because it established how our government would actually function. Had it failed--as many at the time feared it would--it's possible that the United States as we know it would not exist today. The Constitution was a broad set of principles. It was left to the members of the First Congress and President George Washington to create the machinery that would make the government work. Fortunately, James Madison, John Adams, Alexander Hamilton, and others less well known today, rose to the occasion. During two years of often fierce political struggle, they passed the first ten amendments to the Constitution; they resolved bitter regional rivalries to choose the site of the new national capital; they set in place the procedure for admitting new states to the union; and much more. But the First Congress also confronted some issues that remain to this day: the conflict between states' rights and the powers of national government; the proper balance between legislative and executive power; the respective roles of the federal and state judiciaries; and funding the central government. Other issues, such as slavery, would fester for decades before being resolved. The First Congress tells the dramatic story of the two remarkable years when Washington, Madison, and their dedicated colleagues struggled to successfully create our government, an achievement that has lasted to the present day."--Publisher website.

America's Great Debate

Author : Fergus M. Bordewich
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439124612
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book America's Great Debate written by Fergus M. Bordewich and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-04-16 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the 1850s appeals of Western territories to join the Union as slave or free states, profiling period balances in the Senate, Henry Clay's attempts at compromise, and the border crisis between New Mexico and Texas.

The Works of Daniel Webster

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Webster written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1857 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 370 pages
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Download or read book The Writings and Speeches of Daniel Webster written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ; Miscellaneous letters

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 662 pages
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Download or read book Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ; Miscellaneous letters written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 662 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, diplomatic and official papers, and miscellaneous letters

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 660 pages
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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Webster ...: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, diplomatic and official papers, and miscellaneous letters written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1851 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Works of Daniel Webster: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, contin. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters

Author : Daniel Webster
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 658 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Works of Daniel Webster: Legal arguments and speeches to the jury, contin. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters written by Daniel Webster and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 658 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Real Daniel Webster

Author : Elijah Robinson Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Real Daniel Webster written by Elijah Robinson Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Daniel Webster, the Expounder of the Constitution

Author : Everett Pepperrell Wheeler
Publisher : Fred B. Rothman
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.E/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Daniel Webster, the Expounder of the Constitution written by Everett Pepperrell Wheeler and published by Fred B. Rothman. This book was released on 1905 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Text contains a full statement of Webster's principal arguments upon Constitutional questions & of the decisions rendered upon them.

The Great Triumvirate

Author : Merrill D. Peterson
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198020945
Total Pages : 600 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (98 download)

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Download or read book The Great Triumvirate written by Merrill D. Peterson and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1988-12-08 with total page 600 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enormously powerful, intensely ambitious, the very personifications of their respective regions--Daniel Webster, Henry Clay, and John C. Calhoun represented the foremost statemen of their age. In the decades preceding the Civil War, they dominated American congressional politics as no other figures have. Now Merrill D. Peterson, one of our most gifted historians, brilliantly re-creates the lives and times of these great men in this monumental collective biography. Arriving on the national scene at the onset of the War of 1812 and departing political life during the ordeal of the Union in 1850-52, Webster, Clay, and Calhoun opened--and closed--a new era in American politics. In outlook and style, they represented startling contrasts: Webster, the Federalist and staunch New England defender of the Union; Clay, the "war hawk" and National Rebublican leader from the West; Calhoun, the youthful nationalist who became the foremost spokesman of the South and slavery. They came together in the Senate for the first time in 1832, united in their opposition of Andrew Jackson, and thus gave birth to the idea of the "Great Triumvirate." Entering the history books, this idea survived the test of time because these men divided so much of American politics between them for so long. Peterson brings to life the great events in which the Triumvirate figured so prominently, including the debates on Clay's American System, the Missouri Compromise, the Webster-Hayne debate, the Bank War, the Webster-Ashburton Treaty, the annexation of Texas, and the Compromise of 1850. At once a sweeping narrative and a penetrating study of non-presidential leadership, this book offers an indelible picture of this conservative era in which statesmen viewed the preservation of the legacy of free government inherited from the Founding Fathers as their principal mission. In fascinating detail, Peterson demonstrates how precisely Webster, Clay, and Calhoun exemplify three facets of this national mind.