 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 996 pages
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all; its powers are... | |
 | 1819 - 660 pages
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the -union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all; its powers The... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1838 - 684 pages
...Ihe universal assent of mankind, we mighl expect it would be this: that the Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action . This would seem lo result necessarily from ils nalure. It is the Government of all; its powers are... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - United States - 1836 - 680 pages
...are to be exercised directly on them, anil lor their benefit. Ibid. 74. The government ol' the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action ; und its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme laws of the laud. Unil.... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this, — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action." " But this question is not left to mere reasoning. The people have, in expressed terms, decided it... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - Constitutional history - 1848 - 414 pages
...period of years, fixes its construction.—Stuart vs. Laird, 1 Cranch, 099. The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.—McCulloch... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1855 - 714 pages
...it not been approved by them, it would have had no more authority than the sweeping of your floor. The Government of the United States, though limited in its powers, is supreme within the proper sphere of its action. The respective Governments of the United States and of the several... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1858 - 868 pages
...by such considerations. The form of government varies only the extent of authority and the modes of conferring and exercising it, &c., but the obligation...objects committed to it," (4 Wh., 316) and its operation as conclusive and as little to be questioned with respect to these objects as the operation of a more... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - United States - 1859 - 674 pages
...of years, fixes its construction. — Stuart vs. Laird, 1 Cranch, 299. The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of -the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land. —McOulloch... | |
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If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. 
