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" ... 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 669
by United States. Congress - 1831
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The World's Best Orations: From the Earliest Period to the Present ..., Volume 7

David Josiah Brewer - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1901 - 464 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...
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Harper's Encyclopædia of United States History from 458 A.D. to 1902, Volume 4

Benson John Lossing - United States - 1901 - 522 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 of those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under...
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A History of the American People

Francis Newton Thorpe - United States - 1901 - 664 pages
...the Constitution and any infraction of it, these resolutions declared, "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 these sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under...
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Famous American Statesmen & Orators, Past and Present: With ..., Volume 4

Alexander Kelly McClure - Orators - 1902 - 404 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...
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A History of the American People, Volume 3

Woodrow Wilson - United States - 1902 - 414 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 tinauthorized acts done under...
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The Life of James Madison

Gaillard Hunt - Biography & Autobiography - 1902 - 608 pages
...them. 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 infractions, and a nullif1cation by those sovereigns of all unauthorized acts, done under colour of...
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Annual Report of the Illinois State Bar Association

Illinois State Bar Association - Bar associations - 1903 - 1024 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 infraction, and that a positive defiance by these sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done or attempted...
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The Louisiana Purchase and the Westward Movement, Volume 8

Curtis Manning Geer - Louisiana Purchase - 1904 - 646 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...
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American Political History, 1763-1876, Volume 1

Alexander Johnston - United States - 1905 - 482 pages
...1799, reiterated its definition of the Constitution as "a compact," and declared " 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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Masterpieces of Eloquence: Famous Orations of Great World Leaders ..., Volume 12

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1905 - 460 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...
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