 ... 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
 | Ethelbert Dudley Warfield - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1887 - 224 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... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin. Meeting - Wisconsin - 1892 - 898 pages
...government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their power; that the several States that formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a positive defiance, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done or... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 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... | |
 | State Historical Society of Wisconsin - Wisconsin - 1894 - 884 pages
...government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their power; that the several States that formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a positive defiance, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done or... | |
 | George Parker Winship - Cibola, Seven Cities of - 1894 - 182 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... | |
 | Rufus King - Legislators - 1895 - 702 pages
...cerNicholas in these words : " That the several States who formed that instrument (the Constitution) being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification of those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done under... | |
 | Elisha Benjamin Andrews - United States - 1894 - 446 pages
...utterance, the Kentucky law-makers further "resolved that the several States who formed (the constitution), being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification by thoso sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color... | |
 | Alexander Kelly McClure - Civilization - 1894 - 312 pages
...Jefferson's resolutions of 1798, by another resolution declaring "that the several States which formed the instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge - of the infraction; that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color... | |
 | Eben Greenough Scott - Constitutional history - 1895 - 458 pages
...added to the Kentucky resolution, in the following year (1799), and this asserted " that the several states which formed that instrument, being sovereign...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done under... | |
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