Author: Rhode Island. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee to whom were referred the Resolutions of Mr. Wells, on SlaveryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petition, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Reports of the Select Committee to Whom Were Referred the Resolutions of Mr. Wells of Hopkinton
Author: Rhode Island. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee to whom were referred the Resolutions of Mr. Wells, on SlaveryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Petition, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Mr. Whipple's Report, and Mr. Otis's Letter
Author: Rhode Island. General Assembly. House of Representatives. Select Committee to whom were referred the Resolutions of Mr. Wells, on SlaveryPublisher:
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Category : Petition, Right of
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
On the Atherton resolutions, passed in the United States House of Representatives, December 12, 1838, relative to petitions for the abolition of slavery. The resolutions are characterized "as a dangerous invasion of the right of the people to petition Congress, and in violation of the Constitution of the United States."
The People's Martyr
Author: Erik J. ChaputPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700619240
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
In 1840s Rhode Island, the state’s seventeenth-century colonial charter remained in force and restricted suffrage to property owners, effectively disenfranchising 60 percent of potential voters. Thomas Wilson Dorr’s failed attempt to rectify that situation through constitutional reform ultimately led to an armed insurrection that was quickly quashed—and to a stiff sentence for Dorr himself. Nevertheless, as Erik Chaput shows, the Dorr Rebellion stands as a critical moment of American history during the two decades of fractious sectional politics leading up to the Civil War. This uprising was the only revolutionary republican movement in the antebellum period that claimed the people’s sovereignty as the basis for the right to alter or abolish a form of government. Equally important, it influenced the outcomes of important elections throughout northern states in the early 1840s and foreshadowed the breakup of the national Democratic Party in 1860. Through his spellbinding and engaging narrative, Chaput sets the rebellion in the context of national affairs—especially the abolitionist movement. While Dorr supported the rights of African Americans, a majority of delegates to the “People’s Convention” favored a whites-only clause to ensure the proposed constitution’s passage, which brought abolitionists such as Frederick Douglass, Parker Pillsbury, and Abby Kelley to Rhode Island to protest. Meanwhile, Dorr’s ideology of the people’s sovereignty sparked profound fears among Southern politicians regarding its potential to trigger slave insurrections. Drawing upon years of extensive archival research, Chaput’s book provides the first scholarly biography of Dorr, as well as the most detailed account of the rebellion yet published. In it, Chaput tackles issues of race and gender and carries the story forward into the 1850s to examine the transformation of Dorr’s ideology into the more familiar refrain of popular sovereignty. Chaput demonstrates how the rebellion’s real aims and significance were far broader than have been supposed, encompassing seemingly conflicting issues including popular sovereignty, antislavery, land reform, and states’ rights. The People’s Martyr is a definitive look at a key event in our history that further defined the nature of American democracy and the form of constitutionalism we now hold as inviolable.
Report of the Select Committee to Whom was Referred a Resolution Relative to the Organization of the Courts of Common Pleas
Author: The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 1210
Book Description
The Congressional Globe
Author: J.C. RivesAfro-Americana, 1553-1906
Author: Library Company of PhiladelphiaPublisher: Boston : G. K. Hall
ISBN:
Category : Africa
Languages : en
Pages : 758
Book Description
The Congressional globe
Author: The Congressional Globe
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1114
Book Description
The Committee to Whom the Several Papers Referred to in His Majesty's Message of the 12th of May 1794, and which Were Presented to the House, by Mr. Secretary Dundas ... Were Referred
Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee to whom the several papers referred to in His Majesty's Message of the 12th of May 1794, and which were presented to the House, by Mr. Secretary Dundas, upon the 12th and 13th days of the said month by His Majesty's command, were referredPublisher:
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Category : Secret societies
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description