...interfere with or control the damestic institutions of the several states." Those states, they continued, "are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs." Such arguments and approaches, whose meaning was clear to the intended audience, had brought the Democrats...

...Senate. DMB, 423-26. The Baltimore Creed58 of 1840— '44— '48 — and '52: "That Congress has no power to interfere with or control the domestic institutions...others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the...

...Constitution to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that all such States are the sole and proper judges of everything...others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, are calculated to lead us to the most alarming and dangerous consequences, and...

...(Lee & Shepard, 1872). Democratic Platforms since 1840 had stressed that Congress had no authority "to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several states." Party Platforms, supra, at 2, 4, 11, 17,25,30,31. 4. See note 84 of chapter 9 and accompanying text....

...general theories of federalism or declared for states' rights in the abstract. Democrats proclaimed that "states are the sole and proper judges of everything...appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the constitution."21 Republicans in 1860, doubtless responding to criticism on this score, declared that...