The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Union: Selected Documents

by Herman Belz

Book Overview

The debates between Daniel Webster of Massachusetts and Robert Hayne of South Carolina gave fateful utterance to the differing understandings of the nature of the American Union that had come to predominate in the North and the South by 1830.

To Webster, the Union was the indivisible expression of one nation of people. To Hayne, the Union was the voluntary compact among sovereign states. The Webster-Hayne Debate consists...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0865972737
• ISBN13: 9780865972735
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Liberty Fund
• Length: 509 Pages
• Weight: 1.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Postsecondary to Grade 5