ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author talks about the Andrew Jackson: Proclamation on Nullification. He considers the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution; unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed. The author then talks about James Buchanan and Abraham Lincoln. In compliance with a custom as old as the Government itself, the author briefly addresses one to take in the presence of the oath prescribed by the Constitution of the United States to be taken by the President "before he enters on the execution of his office". The Constitution provides, and all the States have accepted the provision, that "the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government".
