 | Sydney Howard Gay - Biography & Autobiography - 1884 - 374 pages
...language, was presented in the words — " that a nullification by those sovereignties [the States] of all unauthorized acts, done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." In 1832, this fact, on the authority of Jefferson's grandson and executor, was made public... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 766 pages
...its obvious and real intention, and will be among the last to seek its dissolution." She asserts " that a nullification by those sovereignties of all...done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." The Kentucky Resolutions, therefore, claimed the right of the states — not of one state... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 774 pages
...its obvious and real intention, and will be among the last to seek its dissolution." She asserts " that a nullification by those sovereignties of all...done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." The Kentucky Resolutions, therefore, claimed the right of the states — not of one state... | |
 | Samuel Sullivan Cox - Reconstruction - 1885 - 770 pages
...its obvious and real intention, and will be among the last to seek its dissolution." She asserts " that a nullification by those sovereignties of all...done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." The Kentucky Resolutions, therefore, claimed the right of the states — not of one state... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 336 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,...done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy : That this Commonwealth does, under the most deliberate reconsideration, declare, that the... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1090 pages
...not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several States who formed the instrument, being sovereign and independent, have...DONE UNDER COLOR OF THAT INSTRUMENT, IS THE RIGHTFUL REMEDY." It is the great apostle, of American liberty himself who has consecrated these principles,... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1886 - 884 pages
...formed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction, and that a nullification by those sovereignties...done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy; that this Commonwealth does, upon the most deliberate reconsideration, declare that the said... | |
 | Zachariah Frederick Smith - Kentucky - 1886 - 890 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 under... | |
 | John Robert Irelan - Presidents - 1887 - 560 pages
...those who administer the Government, aud 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 under... | |
 | Ethelbert Dudley Warfield - Alien and Sedition laws, 1798 - 1887 - 240 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 under... | |
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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... 
