 | New Thought - 1953 - 1224 pages
...dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound. William E. Borah Hamilton said:". . . to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised." Thus the fathers made no provision in the Constitution for the enforcement of the judgment of the Court... | |
 | Joseph Rotblat - Political Science - 2001 - 464 pages
...Alexander Hamilton, in his "Federalist Papers", discussed the confederation with the following words: To coerce the states is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised... Can any reasonable man be well disposed towards a government which makes war and carnage the only means... | |
 | 623 pages
...provision against it. 86 Mr. Hamilton also informed the Ratification Convention: It has been observed, to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects...case, can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose Massachusetts, or any large State, should refuse, and Congress should attempt to compel them,... | |
 | Warren Choate Shaw - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1928 - 698 pages
...If we make requisitions, and they are not complied with, what is to be done? It has been observed, to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. What picture does this idea present to our view? A complying State at war with a non-complying State;... | |
 | John J. Chodes - Biography & Autobiography - 2005 - 690 pages
...previous compacts by which it might be bound." ... Mr. Hamilton, in the convention in New York, said: "To coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised.... What picture does this idea present to our view? A complying State at war with a non-complying State;... | |
 | Landon Covington Bell - Lunenberg County (Va.) - 1927 - 642 pages
...Union from its foundation. Hamilton said in the convention of 1787: "It has been well observed that to coerce the states is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised." Yet upon the maddest of projects the Lincoln administration was determined to embark. In view of the... | |
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It has been observed to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be confined to a single State. This being the case can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose... 
