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" The great and radical vice in the construction of the existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of whom they consist. "
The Fœderalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the New ... - Page 94
by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1864 - 615 pages
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The Presbyterian Magazine, Volume 1

Cortlandt Van Rensselaer - Presbyterian Church - 1851 - 604 pages
...modification would be of any avail which came short of curing its radical vice, to wit, that of providing "legislation for States or Governments in their corporate...and as contradistinguished from the individuals of whom they consist." So long as this principle was retained, the States might be bound together in a...
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The Federalist, on the New Constitution: Written in 1788

Constitutional law - 1852 - 528 pages
...structure of the building, which cannot be amended, otherwise than by an alteration in the very elements and main pillars of the fabric. The great and radical...and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of whom they consist. Though this principle does not run through all the powers delegated to the union...
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Commentaries on Universal Public Law

George Bowyer - Jurisprudence - 1854 - 424 pages
...defects of the confederation of the United States of America," which was superseded by the constitution. "The great and radical vice in the construction of...and as contradistinguished from the individuals of whom they consist. Though this ' The expression used by Pufendorf may seem to imply that no change...
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Republican landmarks: the views and opinons of American statesmen on foreign ...

John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 404 pages
...modification would be of any avail which came short of curing its radical vice, to wit, that of providing ' legislation for States or governments in their corporate...and as contradistinguished from the individuals of whom they consist.' So long as this principle was retained, the States might be bound together in a...
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Republican Landmarks: The Views and Opinions of American Statesmen on ...

John Philip Sanderson - Naturalization - 1856 - 380 pages
...modification would be of any avail which came short of curing its radical vice, to wit, that of providing ' legislation for States or governments in their corporate...and as contradistinguished from the individuals of whom they consist.' So long as this principle was retained, the States might be bound together in a...
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Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American ..., Volume 1

Thomas Hart Benton - United States - 1858 - 822 pages
...head and its members. Mr. B. then read as follows : " The great and radical vice, in the structure of the existing confederation, is in the principle...their ¡ corporate or collective capacities, and as contra- ; distinguished from the individuals of which they j consist. Though this principle does not...
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The Danville Quarterly Review, Volume 3

Presbyterian church in the U.S.A. - 1863 - 712 pages
...in practice, it is subversive of the order and ends of civil polity."* So, Hamilton declares that " The great and radical vice in the construction of...and as contradistinguished from the individuals of whom they consist;" — and commends the Constitution, because it " incorporates into one plan those...
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American Dis-union: Constitutional Or Unconstitutional?: A Reply to Mr ...

Charles Edward Rawlins - Secession - 1862 - 252 pages
...would probably terminate in a dissolution of the Union." In the same number, we find these words, " The great and radical vice in the construction of...Confederation is in the principle of legislation for States and Governments, in their corporate and collective capacities, and as contradistinguished from the...
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The Federalist: A Collection of Essays, Written in Favor of the ..., Volume 1

Henry Barton Dawson - Constitutional law - 1863 - 770 pages
...to show, that the evils we experience do not proceed from minute or partial imperfections, but from fundamental errors in the structure of the building,...great and radical vice in the construction of the 1 existing Confederation is in the principle of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS, in their CORPORATE...
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The American Theory of Government Considered with Reference to the Present ...

Peter Hardeman Burnett - United States - 1863 - 142 pages
...capacity." § 4. The radical vice of the Confederation practically continued in the Constitution. " The great and radical vice, in the construction of...of LEGISLATION for STATES or GOVERNMENTS in their CORPOEATE or COLLECTIVE CAPACITIES, and as contradistinguished from the INDIVIDUALS of whom they consist."...
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