I would like to add to your assignment list for this week one item. I was not able to get to 'Jackson's response to the People of SC' in class today and I think that's an important document for you to read to round out this lesson. So, please open the link to an excerpt from this document HERE and print out pages 2, 3, and 4 only.
Read the excerpts and answer only the first and last questions on the chart at the end. Once you have finished that read the following paragraph from Jackson's response:
"How is it that the most perfect of these several modes of union should now be considered as a mere league that may be dissolved at pleasure? It is from an abuse of terms. Compact is used as synonymous with league, although the true term is not employed, because it would at once show the fallacy of the reasoning. It would not do to say that our Constitution was only a league, but it is labored to prove it a compact (which, in one sense it is), and then to argue that as a league is a compact, every compact between nations must, of course, be a league, and that from such an engagement every sovereign power has a right to recede. But it has been shown that in this sense the States are not soverighn, and that even if they were, and the national Constitution had been formed by compact, there would be no right in any one State to exonerate itself from the obligation."Think about what you have learned in logic class thus far this year. See if you can find and identify the faulty logic at work here. Be prepared to discuss this paragraph during the first part of logic on Tueday. I hope ot sit in on the discussion to hear your thoughts and learn from you all!
