Collection of letters and documents relating to States Rights in 1808-1809, including: 1. Manuscript "true copy" of the Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island General Assembly ... on the fourth Monday of February, 1809, being the Rhode Island response to the Embargo Act of 1807, 4 pp, 4to (337 x 212 mm), "It would be a paradox in the history of the human mind, if a people, who from the foundation of their government have ever heretofore, manifested the most warm and zealous attachment to civil liberty, should regard with indifference its extinguishment." With ALS from Governor Fenner ("J. Fenner") to Gov Trumbull of Connecticut; 2. Resolutions in the Pennsylvania Assembly, April 3, 1809, 14 pp, 8vo, disbound, proposing a Constitutional Amendment for a tribunal to decide issues between the state and federal governments; with Autograph Letter Signed ("Simon Snyder") to Trumbull; 3. Group of documents relating to a proposed amendment to the Constitution allowing for Senators in the Congress to "be removed from office by the vote of a majority of the whole number of Members of the respective State Legislatures," including printed act in opposition from Massachusetts; printed act in support from Maryland; printed circular letter signed ("Wm H Cabell") transmitting their act for approval, with autograph letter in response from Trumbull, with additional letter transmitting a map of Virginia (drawn by James Madison, but not present). One of the thorniest issues of the early days of the Republic, the tension between the needs of the state and the needs of the new nation created numerous skirmishes between the two. SOLD WITH: an ALS from Trumbull to George Sullivan of Massachusetts, with autograph response from Sullivan to the verso.
Collection of letters and documents relating to States Rights in 1808-1809, including: 1. Manuscript "true copy" of the Acts and Resolves of Rhode Island General Assembly ... on the fourth Monday of February, 1809, being the Rhode Island response to the Embargo Act of 1807, 4 pp, 4to (337 x 212 mm), "It would be a paradox in the history of the human mind, if a people, who from the foundation of their government have ever heretofore, manifested the most warm and zealous attachment to civil liberty, should regard with indifference its extinguishment." With ALS from Governor Fenner ("J. Fenner") to Gov Trumbull of Connecticut; 2. Resolutions in the Pennsylvania Assembly, April 3, 1809, 14 pp, 8vo, disbound, proposing a Constitutional Amendment for a tribunal to decide issues between the state and federal governments; with Autograph Letter Signed ("Simon Snyder") to Trumbull; 3. Group of documents relating to a proposed amendment to the Constitution allowing for Senators in the Congress to "be removed from office by the vote of a majority of the whole number of Members of the respective State Legislatures," including printed act in opposition from Massachusetts; printed act in support from Maryland; printed circular letter signed ("Wm H Cabell") transmitting their act for approval, with autograph letter in response from Trumbull, with additional letter transmitting a map of Virginia (drawn by James Madison, but not present). One of the thorniest issues of the early days of the Republic, the tension between the needs of the state and the needs of the new nation created numerous skirmishes between the two. SOLD WITH: an ALS from Trumbull to George Sullivan of Massachusetts, with autograph response from Sullivan to the verso.
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