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Nathaniel Beverley Tucker

A Discourse on the Genius of the Federative System of the United States Review Posts

A Discourse on the Genius of the Federative System of the United States

This speech was given to the Young Men's Society of Lynchburg, August 26, 1838. I Appear before you, gentlemen, in compliance with an invitation which deserves my grateful acknowledgments. To have been deemed capable of offering one thought proper to guide your minds in the pursuit of truth, is an honor which I beg you to believe I highly appreciate.…
Nathaniel Beverley Tucker
June 10, 2015
The Tuckers of Virginia Blog

The Tuckers of Virginia

If any American today were to listen to the nationalists in charge of either the political class or American education at large, they would get the sense that it is settled science that the American Union is comprised of one people held together by a national government with uncontested sovereignty over all matters foreign and domestic.  Certainly, States and local…
Brion McClanahan
June 8, 2015