The Webster-Hayne Debate: Defining Nationhood in the Early American Republic

by Christopher Childers

Book Overview

A crucial senatorial debate on the question of the states' relationship to the federal government.

Two generations after the founding, Americans still disagreed on the nature of the Union. Was it a confederation of sovereign states or a nation headed by a central government? To South Carolina Senator Robert Y. Hayne and others of his mindset, only the vigilant protection of states' rights could hold off an attack on the southern...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1421426145
• ISBN13: 9781421426143
• Release Date: August 2018
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.62 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 8.9"