GOVT 310 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Whiskey Rebellion, Tenth Amendment To The United States Constitution, Kentucky And Virginia Resolutions
18 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
•written by Madison and Jefferson
•wanted right to nullify Alien and Sedition Acts
•cite 10th Amendment- these acts are not direct to the federal government
•can states overturn federal law?
Calhoun’s Discord
•John C Calhoun: pro-slavery, pro-south politician
•sovereignty lies in people
•proposes right of succession
•proposes plural executive
•Constitution is compact among states
Daniel Webster’s Reply to Calhoun
•people give power to federal government (not that states) through the Constitution
•“people’s government”
•nationalist interpretation of the Constitution
•Constitution is convenant among people
•“we are all agents of the same power, the people”
Albert Gallatin
•served under Jefferson and Madison as congressman+Treasury Secretary
•wrote about reality instead of his ideas of what the US should be
•In the fight between Hamiltonians and Jeffersonians, he was the realist
•worked to reconcile the 2 views to preserve the government
•cooperative federalism
•disapproved of Whiskey Rebellion: rebels should’ve worked it out instead of going
straight to violence
Taxation:
•taxation is concurrent power
