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Excerpt from State Documents on Federal Relations, Vol. 1: The States and the United States
Thwe resolutions were presented to the Senate by Monroe on January 13, 1791, and to the House by Madison on the following day, and communicated by the President on January 17, but Congress took no important action thereon.
In Maryland resolutions pronouncing assumption as dangerous to the inde pendent existence of the State government were defeated by the casting vote of the Speaker of the House. North Carolina likewise condemned the measure in vigorous language.
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