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Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Tan covers and black title, 48 pages, 7.5 in. tall. Ownership signature of Solon J. Buck, an archivist and historian, inside front cover. Buck served as head of the U. S. National Archives between 1941 and 1948. He then went to the Library of Congress as chief of the Manuscript Division. This title includes resolutions and reports from northern and southern states concerning slavery and the constitution. Covers show brown tone at the spine, front cover has a soil spot at the spine.…

Pamphlet. Condition: Used - Very Good. The Department of History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1904. 48 pages. 7.5 x 5", printed wrapper. Clean, tight, very good.

ISBN-13: 9781584775584; ISBN-10: 1584775580. Ames, Herman V., Editor. State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States. Philadelphia: Department of History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1906. 320 pp. Reprint The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., 2006. ISBN-13: 9781584775584. Smyth-sewn blue cloth with gilt stamped spine and front cover. Hardcover. New. $49.95 * Facsimile reprint of the definitive 1906 of this monumental compilation of primary sources tracing the constitutional friction between individual state legislatures and the federal government from 1789 to 1861. Compiled by the noted constitutional scholar and Penn archivist Herman Vandenburg Ames, the text assembles rare official state documents regarding the Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions, Early Georgia federal judiciary conflicts, the Hartford Convention, nullification actions, and the progressive regional slavery debates that directly culminated in secession. An essential, deeply curated sourcebook for analyzing the evolution of strict constructionist theology and the "compact theory" of the United States Constitution. …