Proclamation by Andrew Jackson, President of the United States, of the 10th December, 1832 ... Printed by Order of the House of Representatives
21 pp. 1 vols. 8vo
1832 · Harrisburg, [Pa.]
by (Nullification) Jackson, Andrew
Harrisburg, [Pa.]: Printed by Henry Welsh, 1832. 21 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. Disbound. Title page browned, else very good. 21 pp. 1 vols. 8vo. One of the most important assertions of the supremacy of federal over state law in the early history of the nation, this is Jackson's famous proclamation in which he denounced nullification as treason and told the people of South Carolina in no uncertain terms that he proposed to enforce the laws of the United States. "... I consider then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed. (Inventory #: 218614)