This book contends that Nullification was an American and not a Southern or sectional principle of republican and federal government. The key to this revolutionary new insight is none other than the Notes of Debates of James Madison. With original intentions still being debated today and in some cases denied, perhaps it is time to recover what the founders and framers intended originally and deal with History vs. Myth.

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