"In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this work reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. Historians have assumed Madison's motive in sending agents into the Spanish borderlands between 1810 and 1813 was t…
In examining how the United States gained control over the northern borderlands of Spanish America, this text reassesses the diplomacy of President James Madison. The author also describes how a myriad cast of local leaders, officials and other small players affected the borderl…
"By analyzing Madison's, Washington's, and Jefferson's public documents, private writings, and political actions, Muñoz explains the founders' competing church-state political philosophies."--Page [i].
Citizens across the country are fed up with the politicians in Washington telling us how to live our lives?and then sticking us with the bill. But what can we do? Actually, we can just say?no." As New York Times bestselling author Thomas E. Woods, Jr., explains,?nullification" a…
Asserts that nullification is the constitutional remedy envisioned by the nation's founders to be used to resist Federal power. Presents documents showing the rationale used by States in historic debates.