 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
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 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...thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound surely the question, whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government, does not... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 480 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...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 508 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...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 960 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...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | James De Witt Andrews - Law - 1910 - 392 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...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | abraham lincoln - 1910 - 696 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. But when, 'in order to form a more perfect union,' it was deemed necessary to change this alliance... | |
 | Nathan William MacChesney - 1910 - 650 pages
...instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act waa final. It required not the affirmance, and could not...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. But when, 'in order to form a more perfect union,' it was deemed necessary to change this alliance... | |
 | Michigan - 1912 - 866 pages
...domestic tranquility, and secure the blessings of liberty to themselves and to their posterity.' * * • * "It has been said that the people had already surrendered...powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more 1o give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government... | |
 | James Parker Hall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 528 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...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government, does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1914 - 380 pages
...required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the State governments. The constitution as thus adopted was of complete obligation, and bound...whether they may resume and modify the powers granted to government does not remain to be settled in this country. Much more might the legitimacy of the general... | |
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