Nathaniel Macon

Nathaniel Macon in the United States

Macon, Nathaniel (1757_1837)

United States Constitution

According to the Encyclopedia of the American Constitution, about its article titled 269 MACON, NATHANIEL (1757_1837) Nathaniel Macon, a North Carolina planter, opposed ratification of the constitution because he thought the new government too powerful. Joining thomas jefferson’s Republican party, Macon was elected to Congress in 1791; with his party he opposed alexander hamilton’s
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Introduction to MACON’S BILL No. 2: (1810)

In the context of the legal history: This law was intended to persuade both France and Great Britain from illegal search and seizure practices during the Napoleonic Wars. Nathaniel Macon proposed that the United States continue trading with both belligerents but if one country lifted trade restrictions then the United States would not trade with the other country. The bill, which replaced the Non-Intercourse Act (1809), did not stop the seizure of ships. The French informed the United States that they had lifted the Berlin and Milan Decrees. The Americans could see that there were strings attached but still restored nonintercourse with Britain.

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