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Vermont: Records of the Governor and Council of the State of Vermont ... - Page 525
1876
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and, that a nullification, by those sovereignties,...done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." Time and experience confirmed Mr. Jeffer=on's opinion on this all-important point. In the...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; 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,...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under...
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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 ..., 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,...
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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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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...
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 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,...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and, that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acte, done under...
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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...
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Cobbett's Political Register, Volumes 78-79

William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1832 - 844 pages
...several states who formed the instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable riglit to judge of the infraction, and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorised acts done under colour of that instrument is the rightful remedy." It is the great apostle...
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Register of Debates in Congress

John Hohnes - 1833 - 682 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,...unquestionable right to judge of the infraction." Hamilton has, in substance, sanctioned these views of Mr. Jefferson, in tire number of the Federalist...
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