... 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
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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