Authors: Daniel Webster

The Judiciary
1825–1860

Speech on the Presidential Veto of the Bank Bill

Register of Debates, Senate, 22nd Congress, 1st session, pp. 1221–1240, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=011/llrd011.db&recNum=614 Mr. President, no one will deny the high importance of the subject now before us. Congress, after full deliberation

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The Judiciary
1825–1860

Reply to Jackson’s Veto Message

Source: Daniel Webster, “The Bank Veto,” U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774–1875, Senate, 22nd Congress, 1st session, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage?collId=llrd&fileName=011/llrd011.db&recNum=614. No one will deny the high importance of the subject now before

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1825–1860

The Webster-Hayne Debates

Source: Daniel Webster, The Webster-Hayne Debate on the Nature of the Constitution: Selected Documents, ed. Herman Belz (Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2000). https://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/1557. Speech of Senator Robert Y. Hayne of South Carolina, January

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