 | United States. Congress. Senate - United States - 1874 - 554 pages
...instrument to the people. But the people veré at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act van final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived by the State gorcrnS. Rep. 307 6 ment. The Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound... | |
 | William O. Bateman - Constitutional law - 1876 - 416 pages
...capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and in thus submitting the constitution to the people.1 But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or...their act was final. It required not the affirmance of, ;and could not be negatived by, the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was... | |
 | Orlando Bump - Constitutional law - 1878 - 474 pages
...people. The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. The Federal Government is emphatically a government of the people. In form and substance it emanates... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1925 - 1124 pages
...authorities there cited. ceeds directly from the people, is 'ordained and established' in the name of the people. • • • But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act [8] Second. That by the enactment of the was final. It required not the affirmance, Fourteenth Amendment... | |
 | Law reports, digests, etc - 1885 - 890 pages
...The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the...reject it; and their act was final. It required not the alii rrnance, anil could not be negatived, by the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted,... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1150 pages
...affirmance, and could not hr -negatived, by the State Governments, much less by the State Legislatures. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the Sfate sovereignties. If any one proposition could command the universal consent of mankind, we might... | |
 | Judson Stuart Landon - Constitutional history - 1889 - 796 pages
...posterity.' The assent of the states in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the...obligation and bound the state sovereignties. . . . " It is said," continued the Court, " that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1890 - 986 pages
...The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the...complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties: McCulloch v. The State of Maryland (1819), 4 Wheat. (i?US) 402—404. The substance of this concurring... | |
 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1891 - 858 pages
...The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the...thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound I lie State sovereignties. " It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers... | |
 | History - 1891 - 654 pages
...The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling the convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the...perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their decision was final. It required not the affirmance of, and could not be negatived by, the state governments.... | |
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The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance,... 
