 | United States - 1857 - 540 pages
...Constitution, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its instructions, and a nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized...done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." Neither of these two commonwealths asserted the right of a single State to interpose and annul... | |
 | James Dunwoody Brownson De Bow, R. G. Barnwell, Edwin Bell, William MacCreary Burwell - Southern States - 1858 - 772 pages
...Virginia." Kentucky spoke, and her organ was Thomas Jefferson : " That the several States who formed the instrument, being sovereign and independent, have...done under color of that instrument, is THE RIGHTFUL REMEDY." These States, therefore, proceed to pronounce the acts in question " as no law, and altogether... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1859 - 776 pages
...those who administer the Government, and not the constitution, would be the measure of their powers. That the several States who formed that instrument,...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and, that a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1860 - 292 pages
...those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers— That the several States who formed that instrument,...sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done under culur of that instrument is the rightful remeily : That this commonwealth does, under the most deliberate... | |
 | Campaign literature, 1860 - 1860 - 270 pages
...those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers— That the several States who formed that Instrument,...that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorised acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy: That this commonwealth... | |
 | Political parties - 1860 - 268 pages
...those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers — That the several States who formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have '.he unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties... | |
 | Henry Clay - United States - 1863 - 830 pages
...constitution, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right \ojudge of its instructions, and a nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized...done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.' Neither of these two commonwealths asserted the right of a single state to interpose and annul... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...Government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers; that the several States which formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its Infractions; and that a positive defiance of those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Protectionism - 1864 - 480 pages
...[the Constitution,] being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction ; and that a nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts, done under the color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." It was said by Mr. Webster, on the other hand,... | |
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Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the... 
