Social Studies

Gauge Cohen

25 May, 12:18

In the Webster-Hayne debate, Robert Y. Hayne believed that?

a. the Supreme Court's authority was always superior to the power of the states.

b. the northern and southern states had to unite against the West on issues involving public lands.

c. the U. S. Constitution had been formed not by the states but by the American people.

d. states' rights were more sacred than the Union because the states had created the Union.

e. slavery should be illegal and made the United States look like a nation of hypocrites.