Author:Abel Parker Upshur

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Abel Parker Upshur
(1790–1844)

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American lawyer, judge, and politician who served as Secretary of the Navy and Secretary of State under President John Tyler; strong advocate of states' rights, he supported nullification and a conservative reading of the Constitution of the United States of America

Works

An Exposition of the Virginia Resolutions of 1798 (1833)
A Brief Enquiry into the Nature and Character of our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States (1840)
December 1st. 1843. Washington. Abel P. Upshur to Juan N. Almonte (1843)

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