. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. assedresolutions of nullification, the first in our history, declaring the new lawswere unconstitutional and should have no force within their bo
. The story of the greatest nations; a comprehensive history, extending from the earliest times to the present, founded on the most modern authorities, and including chronological summaries and pronouncing vocabularies for each nation; and the world's famous events, told in a series of brief sketches forming a single continuous story of history and illumined by a complete series of notable illustrations from the great historic paintings of all lands. assedresolutions of nullification, the first in our history, declaring the new lawswere unconstitutional and should have no force within their borders. The Ken-tucky nullification paper was drafted by Jefferson himself, and it went so far asto assert that the States must be sole judges as to when the national govern-ment exceeded its constitutional power. The country refused to approve thisextreme doctrine, which would have made our Supreme Court useless; but theprinciple continued to be widely held in the South, and we must remember itas one of the excuses for the Civil War. These disputes started a flood of almost insane party abuse, which delugedthe country and continued through the fourth presidential election. Mr. Adamsand Mr. Jefferson were once more pitted against each other, and this time won by a substantial majority. The Federalist period of power wasover forever. The Democrats, the believers in the common people, were to es-say the task of directing the WASHINGTONS INAUGURATION (Our First President Swears Allegiance to the Constitution) From an old print of the time OUR present United States Government was thusformed by the Constitutional Convention of the first elections vere held under the provisionsof the new Constitution, every presidential vote was east forWashington. He was unanimously elected; a supreme honorAvhieh has never been accorded to any later President. New York City had been selected as the temporary seatof the central government, and there the members of the f
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