 | Richard Green Parker - 1852 - 380 pages
...and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; " and that, " in all cases of compact between parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of the infraction as of the mode and measure of redress." Language cannot be more explicit, nor can higher... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 806 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." [From the Second Resolve.] " The same act of congress passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and entitled... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having...each party has an equal right to judge for itself, at well of iofraction1 as of the mode and measure of redreti." [From the Second Resolve.] "The same... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 pages
...the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right...States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations, and no other crimes whatsoever ; and it being true as... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 276 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." At the ensuing session of the legislature, the subject was re-examined, and on the 14th of November,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." The legislature of Kentucky, in 1799, reaffirmed their resolutiong of the preceding year. From their... | |
 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...infractions as of thc mode and measures ot redress." And bv the second of these resolutions it wan resolved— "That the constitution of the United States...power to punish treason, counterfeiting the securities and'currcnt coin of thc United States, piracies and felonies committed on the high -,-:,-, and offences... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." We now quote the third of the Virginia Resolutions, passed in the House of Delegates, December 21,... | |
 | United States - Emigration and immigration law - 1856 - 350 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but, that as in all other cases of compact, among parties having...INFRACTIONS AS OF THE MODE AND MEASURE OF REDRESS. against the laws of nations, and no other crimes whatever ; and it being true, as a general principle,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.'" On this principle, the remaining resolutions denounced the Alien and Sedition laws, and pronounced... | |
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That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other... 
