 | John Phillip Reid - History - 2000 - 481 pages
...compact precluded the national government from being the "exclusive or final judge" of its powers, "since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers. . . ."71 Rather, the Resolutions concluded, each party to the compact (that is, the states)... | |
 | John V. Denson - Executive power - 2001 - 791 pages
...presidential decree, or even to federal law. As he put it in his draft of the 1798 Kentucky Resolutions, the government created by this compact was not made...discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Philosophy - 2001 - 1054 pages
...other party. That the unvernmcnt created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final yjdge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since...discretion and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers. But that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party... | |
 | Edward J. Dodson - Social Science - 2002 - 604 pages
...powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government;...that the government created by this compact was not made...discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers. Jefferson and Madison had meant to lead the Republican attack against the alien and sedition... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - History - 2003 - 725 pages
...this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, — its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party; that the government created...final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it — since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers;... | |
 | Charles A Cerami - History - 2004 - 328 pages
...of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government.... That the government created by this compact was not...of the extent of the powers delegated to itself.... Each party has an equal right to judge for itself.... Nor was it a political handicap that Jefferson... | |
 | H. L. Pohlman - Political Science - 2004 - 319 pages
...That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party: That the government created...discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party... | |
 | Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 468 pages
...That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party : That the Government created...discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party... | |
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