 ... 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
 | Richard Hildreth - United States - 1879 - 698 pages
...especially the famous declaration that, in cases of violations of the Constitution, " 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, under color... | |
 | James Breckinridge Waller - Enslaved persons - 1880 - 104 pages
...and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers ; that the several states which framed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infractions, and that a positive defiance of the sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done, or attempted... | |
 | Walter Raleigh Houghton - Political parties - 1882 - 592 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 j and that a nulliftcation by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under... | |
 | Arthur Gilman - History - 1883 - 706 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 mtllification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under... | |
 | George Fitch - Political parties - 1883 - 276 pages
...reaffirmed in 1799 shows this to have been the intention of them: " That the several States which formed the instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infractions, and that a " nullification "' by those sovereignties (not by one of them) of all unauthorized... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Campaign literature - 1884 - 530 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... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1886 - 884 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 color... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...Government, aud 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 color... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 336 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. Congress. House - United States - 1090 pages
...not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several States who formed the 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... | |
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