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Jun 20, 2023 | commonplace.online | Christian Fritz |C. J. Martin |Timothy Messer-Kruse |Dror Goldberg

*  *  *  *As originally conceived, interposition rested on the idea that state legislatures were essential monitors of the equilibrium of federalism—and a state legislature’s declaration that acts of the federal government were misguided and even unconstitutional was a legitimate form of political resistance. Nullification, however, whether of a Supreme Court’s decision or an act of Congress was never contemplated by the framers as a power enjoyed by any single state.

Jun 6, 2023 | commonplace.online | C. J. Martin |Christian Fritz |Timothy Messer-Kruse |Dror Goldberg

This is the story of how a visit by Frederick Douglass to south-central Massachusetts, its leadup and aftermath, epitomizes the movement’s ability to spread in the region. Save to PDFPrint“A beautiful . . . sun shone upon” the Unitarian meeting house in Uxbridge, Massachusetts on June 25, 1845.