Statistics for occurrence #1 of “South Carolina” in chapter 7, page 126 of James Buchanan, Buchanan's administration on the eve of the rebellion:
...of the assailants.
Apart from the execution of the laws, so far as this may be practicable, the Executive has no authority to decide what shall be the relations between the Federal Government and South Carolina .
He has been invested with no such discretion.
He
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