Union if Washington attempted to collect the cus- toms duties by force. Such tactics might have intimidated John Quincy Adams, but Andrew Jackson was the wrong president to stare down. The cantankerous general was not a die-hard supporter of the tariff, but he would not permit defiance or di...
while the authority to enter a contract could be conveyed ora y and no formal writing was required as a general rule of Mississippi law, a government entity, including a foreign sovereign such as defendant, had the power to define how and when it entered into a contract, and, by extension...
If these things have once been done in the open streets of St. Louis, by “a majority of her most respectable citizens,” what will be done in the lonely swamps of North Carolina, by men of the stamp of Souther and Legree? This passage of the Revised Statutes of North Carolina is ...