 ... 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 of the...  The Congressional Globe - Page 669by United States. Congress - 1831Full view - About this book
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 234 pages
...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 of^its infraction, and that a nullifkation, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...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 of its infraction ; and, that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done under... | |
 | United States - Emigration and immigration law - 1856 - 350 pages
...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 of the infraction; and, THAT A NULLIFICATION BY THOSE SOVEREIGNTIES, OF ALL UNAUTHORIZED ACTS DONE UNDER... | |
 | United States - 1857 - 538 pages
...Kentucky declared, that the "several States, that framed that instrument, the federal Constitution, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its instructions, and a nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done under color... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1859 - 776 pages
...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 of its infraction ; and, that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done under... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...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 of the infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...administer the Government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers; that the several States which formed that instrument, being sovereign...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its Infractions; and that a positive defiance of those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 1863 - 438 pages
...other things, it asserts, "that the several States, which formed that instrument (the constitution), being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unconstitutional acts, done under... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...the Government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers — that the several states which formed that instrument, being sovereign...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction, and that a POSITIVE DEFIANCE of tnose sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done, or... | |
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