Wartime protests against Confederate tyranny Jeffers v. Fair - Georgia, 1862 (33 Ga. 347); Ex parte Hill – Alabama, 1863 (38 Ala. 429); Parker v. Kaughman – Georgia, 1864 (34 Ga. 136)
Postwar reaction to the new federalism
| “It is concession enough to Liberty, that with us, even in such crises, the power is wielded by no usurping or hereditary despot, according to his caprice, but by chosen representatives of the people … Still, it must be real power, power over the citizen, which he may not resist; else, over-sensitive republicans, aspiring to independence of their own government, may be enslaved by another.” – Justice __, in Parker [Stone quote from Hill – 455]= |
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