 | United States - 1832 - 918 pages
...discretion, and not the Const it u 'ion, the measure of its power; but that, as in all cases of compacts among parties having no common judge, each party has...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." In the Virginia resolutions, from the pen of Mr. Madison, we find the following position maintained:... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." The principle announced in this resolution was steadily maintained in Kentucky from that time until... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 540 pages
...since that woiSld have made its discretion, .and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." A few observations will be hazarded on the matters contained in this resolution, as is the course of... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 542 pages
...powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each partj has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." A few observations will be hazarded on the matters contained in this resolution, as is the course of... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 670 pages
...discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other compacts among parties having no common judge, each party has...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Mr. D. said, that this doctrine of nullification originated with Thomas Jefferson, is admitted by one... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1833 - 746 pages
...discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its power; but that, as in all cases of compacts among parties having no common judge, each party has...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." In the Virginia resolutions, from the pen of Mr. Madison, we find the following position maintained:... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...R. and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact, having no common judge, each party has an equal right...itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and manner of redress." This subject was re-examined in 1790, and the resolutions previously adopted were... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1825 - 522 pages
...constitution, the measure of its no\\ ers. But that, as in all other cases of compact among parlies, having no common judge, each party has an equal right...judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the measure of redress.''^ In Xhis resolution will be found the anatomy of the Federal Government j the... | |
 | Augustin Smith Clayton - Cherokee Indians - 1827 - 108 pages
...since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure, of its powers : but that as in all other cases of compact among parties...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress. — The general assembly of Virginia, guided by the same convictions, and animated by the same sense... | |
 | 1828 - 638 pages
...measure of its powers; but as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judges, each party has an equal right to judge for itself,...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Mr. Madison, in the preamble to the Virginia resolutions, uses the following implicit and decisive... | |
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That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all... 
