Word: virginia
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...Deliberate & Palpable." Last week the great phrase in the South was "the doctrine of interposition." The phrase has an illustrious ancestry. In 1798-99 the legislatures of Kentucky and Virginia passed three resolutions, written by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, in protest to the Alien and Sedition Acts. "In the case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of powers not granted [by the Constitution]," wrote Madison, "the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights...
Despite the verdict of Appomattox, the doctrine of interposition now walks through the South again. Last week, in the Virginia Senate, on Robert E. Lee's birthday, State Senator Harry Carter Stuart, a great-nephew of General Jeb Stuart, introduced a resolution "Interposing the sovereignty of the State against the encroachment upon the reserved powers of this State." Borrowing the adjectives of Madison, the resolution condemned the Supreme Court's decision as "a deliberate, palpable and dangerous attempt ... to usurp the amendatory power that lies solely with not fewer than three-fourths of the States." Crying "We have...
...turned out, last week's Virginia Resolution was a very watered-down version of the original. Earlier drafts, which bluntly declared the court decision null and void (after the style of Calhoun's nullificationist South Carolina in 1832), were abandoned when it became apparent that they would probably not pass the general assembly. Many assemblymen feel that outright nullification would be absurd and futile; other Virginians fear that it might interfere with the Gray Plan (TIME...
...interposition led in a direction that sober Southerners faced with aching hearts. But they were caught in a way of life, a political position and a social structure from which retreat was not easy. In Richmond this week, the governors of Mississippi, South Carolina and Georgia will meet with Virginia's Governor Thomas Stanley to discuss the doctrine of interposition. No doubt, there is a better answer than Civil...
...killed her third husband, she drew a five-year jail term. Hurbie's brother Bethel is currently doing ten years for burglary, and Uncle Iwana Fairris is serving a life sentence as a habitual criminal. Peggy Ann Fry, Hurbie's girl friend, is in a West Virginia prison for transporting a stolen car across state lines. A few hours before the execution last week, Hurbie's father went to Oklahoma City, pleaded vainly with the governor for Hurbie's life, blaming the boy's background. In order to make the trip, Hurbie Sr. had been...