... view points in Massachusetts Senator Daniel Webster's 1833 speech "The Constitution Not a Compact Between Sovereign States" and Abel Upshur's 1833 pamphlet An Exposition of the Virginia Resolutions of 1978. Webster viewed Nullification almost as an act of treason and greatly objected it. Upshur believed that Nullification was an, individual states right and supported it deeply. Webster's views and theories oppose the beliefs ... unconstitutional. Webster says "If the Constitution is a government existing over all the states, though with limited powers, it is necessarily follows, that to...

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