Report of 1800
The Report of 1800 was a resolution drafted by James Madison. It argued for the sovereignty of the individual states under the United States Constitution. The arguments made in the Resolutions and the Report were later used during the nullification crisis of 1832. Madison rejected the concept of nullification and the notion that his arguments supported such a practice.
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The Report of 1800 was a resolution drafted by James Madison. It argued for the sovereignty of the individual states under the United States Constitution. The arguments made in the Resolutions and the Report were later used during the nullification crisis of 1832. The Report was the last important explication of the Constitution produced before the 1817 Bonus Bill veto message by Madison, who has come to be regarded as the “Father of theConstitution.’“ Madison rejected the concept of nullification and the notion that his arguments supported such a practice.” “The Report was an attempt to resolve contemporary criticisms against the 1798 Virginia Resolutions, of which Madison had been the draftsman’s,” says Julian Zelizer. “It was a response to various perceived outrages perpetrated by the Federalist-dominated national government,’ Zelizer says. ‘It was an effort to resolve modern criticisms of the Res resolutions. ‘The Report’ was a challenge to the Federalists’ claim that the Supreme Court had the ultimate responsibility for deciding whether federal laws were constitutional, Zelizer writes.“The Resolutions had in the year since publication received highly critical replies from state legislatures.‚ Zelizer: The Report is the last major explication of the Constitution that Madison produced before his veto message on the Bonus Bill in 1817 was overruled by President Wilson.
“If you want to know the truth about nullification, you can find it in the Report, and you can get it from any source you like,‚” Zelizer adds. � “You can’t get the truth from the Report. You can get the story from the facts, from history, from the history of the American people, and from other sources, and it’ll tell you what the real story is.” ‘‘“’ ““ “We’re not going to give up the rights of our union so much as we have up the value of our rights of self government which we see, & in which alone we see liberty & happiness reserved,�”’ says Zelizer, “but we’ve got to make a decision.• “I’m going to take a stand for what I think is right, no matter what the cost” “ ” writes Zelizer,. “And I’d like to make that decision now.‟“. ” ‘We�’ are going to stand for the right to self-government, and for liberty and happiness, & for self-defense.‘ “ ‘’’ ’. ’’ ‘“We are not. going to sever ourselves from that union, rather than give ourselves up. rather than. give ourselves self government, & we see that liberty & liberty reserved, & that we see self government alone, & the liberty we see in which we. see it alone’′.
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