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1839 Martin Van Buren - Silver and Gold for Federal Payments

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The Specie Circular Order From land speculators to "hard-handed yeomen", the impact of the 1836 Specie Circular order on purchasin...

1839 Martin Van Buren - The Chain of Dependence Part 2 - The Bad English Crop

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    “What sort of a system is that, which its advocates admit may be utterly deranged by a bad crop in England or by the prohibition of the ...

1839 Martin Van Buren - The Chain of Dependence That Bound America to London

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"I can not bring myself to depict the humiliation to which this Government and people might be sooner or later reduced if the means for...

1839 Martin Van Buren - Return of Biddle’s Monster in Philadelphia

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   “Had they suspended twenty-four hours sooner, Mr. Kane, the locofoco candidate, would have been mayor of the city.” — Morning Herald, Oct...

1839 Martin Van Buren - Punishing Defaulters, Protecting the Independent Treasury

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   In his 1839 State of the Union Address, President Martin Van Buren drew an important distinction between the failure of a financial syste...

1839 Martin Van Buren - De Facto Sovereignty: The Power Assumed by Territorial Legislatures

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In his 1839 State of the Union address, President Martin Van Buren warned Congress about “the power assumed by Territorial legislatures.” Hi...

1839 Martin Van Buren - The Impossible Ninth Circuit - Justice John McKinley

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  Shortly after being appointed to the United States Supreme Court in 1837, John McKinley wrote to James K. Polk about the unusual position ...