 The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance,...  Register of Debates in Congress - Page 325by John Hohnes - 1833Full view - About this book
 | 1874 - 500 pages
...thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not...affirmance, and 'could not be negatived by the State governS. Eep. 307 6 ment. The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 320 pages
...thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. It required not the affirmance and could not be negotiated by the State governments. The Constitution, when thus adopted, was a complete obligation,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 pages
...instrument to the people. But the people veré at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act van final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived by the State gorcrnS. Rep. 307 6 ment. The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...thus submitting the constitution to the people.1 But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; •and their act was final. It required not the affirmance of, ;and could not be negatived by, the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. It required not...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. The Federal Government is emphatically a government of the people. In form and substance it emanates... | |
 | Local history - 1880 - 400 pages
...Dallas's ' Reports, 419. MARSHALL, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, says : " It has been said that the people had already surrendered...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country." — 4 Wheaton's Reports, 405. JUSTICE WILSON... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1883 - 408 pages
...perfect liberty to accepti or reject it ; and their act was final. It required not the afljrmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments....to give. But, surely, the question whether they may resUrue and modify the powers granted to government, does not remain to be settled in this country.... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the alii rrnance, anil could not be negatived, by the state governments....complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties. 135 § 381. The powers delegated by the federal constitution to the states are to Ъв exercised only... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1150 pages
...affirmance, and could not hr -negatived, by the State Governments, much less by the State Legislatures. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the Sfate sovereignties. If any one proposition could command the universal consent of mankind, we might... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was final. It required not...obligation and bound the state sovereignties. . . . " It is said," continued the Court, " that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state... | |
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