![]() As suggested here, however, that telling phrase highlighted above is just another way of saying "Nullification" or "State Interposition" albeit expressed in the heightened political language of the early 1790's so soon after the ratification of the Constitution. "Your objections to it seem unanswerable." Later, during the first Nullification movement in Virginia, Madison had this telling comment about organizing an opposition to Alexander Hamilton's ambitious fiscal and economic plans: "the spirit of party revenge," he wrote to Jefferson, "may be wreaked thro' the forms of the Constitution."1Īlthough included in the modern edition of The Papers of Thomas Jefferson and reproduced in James Morton Smith's recent collection of the Jefferson-Madison correspondence, neither editor indicates anything unusual or out of the ordinary about this letter or its phraseology. Madison's laconic reply is equally revealing. I really wish that this or nothing should be done. The example would probably be followed by some other states. Carolina could be brought into a like measure, it would bring the General government to respect the counter-rights of the states. This is the only opposition worthy of our state, and the only kind which can be effectual. ![]() For any person to recognise a foreign legislature in a case belonging to the state itself, is an act of treason against the state, and whosoever shall do any act.shall be adjudged guilty of high treason and suffer death accordingly, by the judgment of the state courts. The power of erecting banks and corporations was not given to the general government it remains.with the state itself. I think they should not adopt such a milk and water measure, which rather recognises than prevents the planting among them a source of poison and corruption.The assembly should reason thus. Lee's plan of opposing the Federal bank by setting up a state one, and find it not only inadequate, but objectionable highly, and unworthy of the Virginia assembly. Dated October 1, 1792, Jefferson's missive contained the interesting and intriguing phrase "the counter-rights of the states" as follows: ![]() Within a year after Congress adopted the Bill of Rights in December of 1791 (as mandated by many of the states as a condition of their ratification of the Constitution), Thomas Jefferson wrote a most remarkable letter to James Madison. What the Framers Really Intended, 1787-1800 (Madisonian, Federalist, Liberal, and Nationalist) The Constitutionality of Nullification The Constitutionality of Nullification: What the Framers.
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