The Lost Principle

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Excerpt from The Lost Principle: Or the Sectional Equilibrium, How It Was Created, How Destroyed, How It May Be Restored This part of the organic law has excited but little curiosity, and yet it is the ground-work Of the political edifice, with refer cues to which every Other part was made. A just understand ing Of this part of the Constitution will furnish, if I mistake not, an explanation of many Of those questions that have con valsed the North and South, and will supply us with the means Of ascertaining how far we have departed from the true mean ing Of that instrument - how far the ship Of State has drifted from the intended course. Mr. Madison was himself a member Of the Convention Of 1829, and heard the enquiry Of Mr. Leigh, but said nothing. Why he stood mute on that occasion, when a true account Of the fractional basis would have added strength to the side which he himself advocated, I know not. Let those who reverence the character and eulogize the memory of Madison divine his motives. His explanation Of that fundamental part Of the federal charter, might not have accorded well with his declared opinions in federal politics, and it is possible that he shrunk from the keen and searching analysis of the power ful minds that illustrated that assemblage. The Constitution Of the United States is generally under stood to be a compact to which the several States are parties, and hence, that all the rights which it provides are State rights, and the remedies for the violation Of those rights, State reme dies. In consequence Of this view Of the Constitution, State secession and State interposition have been suggested as the modes Of redress in the several cases to which they apply. But I shall attempt to prove, by authentic evidence, that this is not true in the exclusive sense in which it has been stated. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.