States' Rights and American Federalism: A Documentary History Book

	Series Foreword
	Introduction
	Chronology of Key Events in States' Rights and American Federalism
Pt. I	States' Rights and American Federalism in the American Founding Era, 1620-1789	1
Document 1	The Mayflower Compact, 1620	12
Document 2	The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, 1639	13
Document 3	Organization of the Government of Rhode Island, March 16-19, 1642	16
Document 4	On Liberty, 1645	17
Document 5	Penn's Plan of Union, 1697	19
Document 6	Albany Plan of Union, 1754	21
Document 7	Declarations of the Stamp Act Congress, October 2, 1765	23
Document 8	From a Farmer in Pennsylvania to the Inhabitants of the British Colonies, Letter II, 1767	24
Document 9	Thoughts on Government, Letter of John Adams, January 1776	26
Document 10	Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America, July 1776	31
Document 11	In Defense of State Sovereignty, Thomas Burke, 1777	35
Document 12	James Madison's "Vices of the Political System," April 1787	37
Document 13	The Virginia Plan Presented to the Federal Convention, May 29, 1787	44
Document 14	John Dickinson of Delaware on Federalism at the Constitutional Convention, June 7, 1787	46
Document 15	The New Jersey Plan Presented to the Federal Convention, June 15, 1787	48
Document 16	James Madison of Virginia Compares the Virginia and New Jersey Plans at the Constitutional Convention, June 19, 1787	50
Document 17	James Wilson of Pennsylvania on Federalism at the Constitutional Convention, June 25, 1787	53
Document 18	The Northwest Ordinance, July 13, 1787	55
Document 19	Federalist Number 10, Publius and the Extended Republic, November 22, 1787	59
Document 20	Agrippa Writes a Letter to the People in Opposition to an Extended Republic and the Constitution of the United States, December 3, 1787	65
Pt. II	Federalism and the Meaning of the Tenth Amendment, 1789-1835	67
Document 21	George Mason's Objections to the Proposed Constitution, October 1, 1787	73
Document 22	James Madison's Proposal to Congress for a Bill of Rights, June 8, 1789	74
Document 23	The Sedition Act, July 14, 1798	79
Document 24	The Kentucky Resolutions, November 16, 1798	81
Document 25	United States v. Peters, 1809	86
Document 26	Report and Resolutions of the Hartford Convention, January 1815	89
Document 27	Barron v. Baltimore (1833)	91
Pt. III	States' Rights in the Antebellum Period and the Civil War, 1828-1865	95
Document 28	Liberty and Union, Now and Forever, One and Inseparable, January 1830	101
Document 29	John C. Calhoun's Fort Hill Address, 1831	104
Document 30	John C. Calhoun against the Force Bill, February 15, 1833	105
Document 31	Andrew Jackson's Second Inaugural Address, March 4, 1833	107
Document 32	Abraham Lincoln's Address before the Young Men's Lyceum of Springfield, Illinois, January 27, 1838	109
Document 33	The Seventh of March Speech: Daniel Webster and the Compromise of 1850	112
Document 34	John C. Calhoun, the Compromise of 1850, and State Autonomy, First Session of Congress, 1850	114
Document 35	William H. Seward, the Compromise of 1850, and an Appeal to a Higher Law, First Session of Congress, 1850	118
Document 36	William H. Seward and the Declaration of Independence: An Appeal to Higher Law, 1856	121
Document 37	Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857): Roger B. Taney and States' Rights	123
Document 38	James Buchanan's Fourth Annual Message: States and Withdrawal from the Union, December 3, 1860	125
Document 39	Resolutions of Secession: Mississippi (January 11, 1861), South Carolina (December 20, 1860), and Virginia (April 17, 1861)	127
Document 40	Abraham Lincoln's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1861	132
Document 41	The Emancipation Proclamation, January 1, 1863	135
Pt. IV	Changes Involving States' Rights and Federalism from the Civil War to the New Deal, 1865-1940	139
Document 42	Women's Suffrage Petition to Congress, December 1871	147
Document 43	Booker T. Washington, Atlanta Exposition Address, 1895	149
Document 44	An Episcopal Priest Challenges Enforcement of the Fourteenth Amendment, 1905	151
Document 45	Theodore Roosevelt on Lincoln and the Race Problem, February 13, 1905	155
Document 46	Elihu Root Calls for the Preservation of Local Self-Government of the States, December 12, 1906	157
Document 47	Wilson Rejects the Old Ideal of Limited Government, October 30, 1909	159
Document 48	Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom Changes the Old Order, 1913	160
Document 49	Kate Gordon's Letter to the Governors of the Southern States, 1913	162
Document 50	Petition from Women Voters, Anti-Suffrage Party of New York, 1917	163
Document 51	State of Tennessee Approves Nineteenth Amendment, August 1920	164
Document 52	President Calvin Coolidge on the Responsibilities of the States, May 30, 1925	165
Document 53	President Calvin Coolidge's Fourth Annual State of the Union Message, December 7, 1926	166
Document 54	Herbert C. Hoover's Fourth Annual State of the Union Message, December 6, 1932	167
Document 55	FDR's First Inaugural Address, March 4, 1933	169
Pt. V	States' Rights and American Federalism from the New Deal to the Present, 1940-1999	173
Document 56	Governor Fielding Wright of Mississippi, Statement to Democratic Party Leaders, January 1948	181
Document 57	The Civil Rights Message of Harry S. Truman to the U.S. Congress, February 2, 1948	185
Document 58	Governor J. Strom Thurmond of South Carolina Speaks to Southern Governors, February 7, 1948	190
Document 59	States' Rights Platform of 1948, Southern Democratic Convention, Birmingham, Alabama, July 17, 1948	193
Document 60	Eisenhower's First Annual Message to the Congress on the State of the Union, February 2, 1953	196
Document 61	President Eisenhower Writes South Carolina Governor James F. Byrnes, August 14, 1953	197
Document 62	Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954)	199
Document 63	The Southern Manifesto, 1956	203
Document 64	President Johnson Urges Enactment of the Voting Rights Act of 1965	205
Document 65	U.S. Commissioner of Education Harold Howe II on the Relationship of the Federal Government to State and Local Education, December 17, 1966	206
Document 66	A Journalist Reports on the Effects of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, January 12, 1967	207
Document 67	Press Interview with George Wallace, 1968	208
Document 68	Reagan Resurrects States' Rights, January 1981	211
Document 69	Contract with America, 1994	213
Document 70	The Devolution Tortoise and the Centralization Hare: The Slow Process in Down-Sizing Big Government, 1998	216
Document 71	U.S. Supreme Court Expands States' Rights	218
Document 72	Minority Opinion Challenges State Immunity from Law Suit	221
Pt. VI	Conclusion	223
	Index	225