 | Sir Fortunatus Dwarris - Constitutional law - 1885 - 698 pages
...consequence when they act, they act in their states. But the measures they adopt, do not on that account cease to be the measures of the people themselves, or become the measures of the state governments, a The several state constitutions are of like origin, but of more circumscribed jurisdiction, and in... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...in convention. It is true they assembled in states, but where else should they have assembled? . . . From these conventions the Constitution derives its...whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people ; it is ordained and established in the name of the people ; and is declared to be ordained,... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...consequence, when they act, they act in their states. But the measures they adopt do not, on that account, cease to be the measures of the people themselves,...whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people; is "ordained and established" in the name of the people; and is declared to be ordained,... | |
 | Burke Aaron Hinsdale - United States - 1891 - 504 pages
...binding act of the adoption of the Constitution by the people in conventions. As C.-J. Marshall has said: "From these conventions the Constitution derives its...whole authority. The Government proceeds directly from the people ; is ordained and established in the name of the people. ... It required not the affirmance... | |
 | History - 1891 - 654 pages
...convention. It is true they assembled in their several States, and where could they have assembled? From these conventions the constitution derives its...whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people. The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling the convention,... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1894 - 470 pages
...consequence, when they act, they act in their States. But the measures they adopt do not, on that account, cease to be the measures of the people themselves,...whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people ; is "ordained and established " in the name of the people ; and is declared to be ordained,... | |
 | Walter Denton Smith - Law - 1894 - 404 pages
...consequence, when they act they act in their States. But the measures they adopt do not on that account cease to be the measures of the people themselves, or become the measures of the State governments. This sovereign body, however, exercises its power of governing only through its agents or officers.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1894 - 1068 pages
...power." OPEN LETTERS. Chief Justice Marshall gave the opinion of the court, in which it was declared : From these conventions the Constitution derives its...whole authority. The government proceeds directly from the people. . . . The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacily, is implied in calling a convention,... | |
 | James Bradley Thayer - Constitutional law - 1895 - 1214 pages
...measures they adopt i До not, on that account, cease to be the measures of the people them- J pelves, $ $ . the people; is " ordained and ' established" in the name of the people ; and is declared to be ordained,... | |
 | John Franklin Jameson, Henry Eldridge Bourne, Robert Livingston Schuyler - History - 1900 - 868 pages
...consequence, when they act, they act in their states, but the measures they adopt do not, on that account, cease to be the measures of the people themselves, or become the measures of state governments." — •McCuIloch vs. Maryland, 4 Wheaton, 316. It is quite possible that Marshall... | |
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No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass. Of consequence, when they act, they act in their States. But the measures they adopt... 
