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" ... since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge... "
The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798: An Historical Study - Page 183
by Ethelbert Dudley Warfield - 1887 - 203 pages
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading ..., Volume 9; Volume 56

United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...those who administer the Government, and not the constitution, would be the measure of their powers. " That the several States who formed that instrument,...sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under the color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." The Senator from Delaware has gone into an argument...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 2; Volume 6; Volume 51

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 642 pages
...unquestionable ri cation by right to jud those sove ge of its infraction, and that a nullifi ereignties of all unauthorized acts, done ' under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy."' I will make no comment on this language. It is too plain to be perverted. I will barely add, that the...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 7; Volume 21; Volume 52

United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...independent, have th* unquestionable right to judge of its construction; and that the nullification, by these sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the right remedy." Sir, said Mr. D., Virginia responded to those resolutions, and the doctrines which they...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and ...

United States - 1833 - 670 pages
...of 1799, as well as those of 1798, and that, in those of 1799, is to be found the memorable passage, that ' The several States who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, liave the unquestionable right to judge of its infractions; m<i that a nullification, by these sovereignties,...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
..."98, it is even more explicitly declared, " that the several States which formed :he constitution, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infractions, and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color...
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Southern Review, Volume 6

1830 - 584 pages
...who administer the Govern' ment, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers. ' That the several States who formed that instrument,...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infrac' tion, and that a nullification by thuse sovereignties, of all unauthorized ' acts, done under...
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Register of Debates in Congress: 21st Congress, 1st session, pt. 1. Dec. 7 ...

United States. Congress - United States - 1830 - 660 pages
...of Thomas Jefferson: "That the several States who formed that instrument, (the federal constitution) being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable...judge of its infraction, and that a nullification by tliose sovereignties of all unauthorized acts, done under color oi' that instrument, is the rightful...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...'98, it is even more explicitly declared, " that the several States which formed the constitution, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infractions, and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under color...
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The Congressional Globe

United States. Congress - United States - 1831 - 692 pages
...Government, and not the constitution, would be the measure of their powers." "That the seventl States which formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its construction; and that the nullification, by these sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under...
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The American Jurist, Volume 9

Law - 1833 - 514 pages
...1799 go further, and as«crt, "that the several states, who formed that instrument, [the constitution] being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable...color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." North American Review, Id. 503 ; 4 Elliot's Debates, 315, 322. In Mr. Madison's Report in the Virginia...
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