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February 16th, 1833 AD (search for this): chapter 2.21
entable civil war must ensue. Elliott's Debates, Vol. III, p. 117. We have seen already how vehemently the idea of even judicial coercion was repudiated by Hamilton, Marshall, and others. The suggestion of military coercion was uniformly treated, as in the above extracts, with still more abhorrence. No principle was more fully and finally settled on the highest authority than that, under our system, there could be no coercion of a state. Webster, in his elaborate speech of February 16, 1833, arguing throughout against the sovereignty of the states, and in the course of his argument sadly confounding the ideas of the federal Constitution and the federal government, as he confounds the sovereign people of the states with the state governments, says: The States can not omit to appoint Senators and electors. It is not a matter resting in State discretion or State pleasure. .. . No member of a State Legislature can refuse to proceed, at the proper time, to elect Senators to C
ter resting in State discretion or State pleasure. .. . No member of a State Legislature can refuse to proceed, at the proper time, to elect Senators to Congress, or to provide for the choice of electors of President and Vice-President, any more than the members can refuse, when the appointed day arrives, to meet the members of the other House, to count the votes for those officers and ascertain who are chosen. Congressional Debates, Vol. IX, Part I, p. 566. This was before the invention in 1877 of an electoral commission to relieve Congress of its constitutional duty to count the vote. Hamilton, on the contrary, fresh from the work of forming the Constitution, and familiar with its principles and purposes, said: It is certainly true that the State Legislatures, by forbearing the appointment of Senators, may destroy the national Government. Federalist, No. Lix. It is unnecessary to discuss the particular question on which these two great authorities are thus directly at issue.
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