The anti-war Hartford (Connecticut) Convention convenes: delegates from the five New England States meet to discuss the Napoleonic (world) War of 1812, and their grievances against the federal government, which include:
- Repeal of the Embargo Acts of 1807 and 1813, and the Non-Intercourse Act;
- Repeal of the three-fifths compromise, which gives the slave States disproportionate suffrage in the House of representatives;
- Repeal of the simple majorities required for declaring war, admitting new States into the voluntary Union, and restrictions on foreign trade; and
- Repeal of the Louisiana Purchase.
NOTE: Republican (constitutionalist) President Madison did not implement military action against the defiant New England States. Nor has there been any evidence found that would suggest that he even considered it.
[restored 12/3/2021]
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References:
Calvin D. Linton, ed. The Bicentennial Almanac: 200 Years of America, 1776-1976, (Nashville, Tennessee: Thomas Nelson, 1975), 75.
The American Gulag by Thomas J. DiLorenzo
www.lewrockwell.com/dilorenzo/dilorenzo79.html
Current U.s. National Debt:
