Notes on Historical Evidence in Reference to Adverse Theories of the Origin and Nature of the Government of the United States of America |
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... Judge Story on a Sovereign State . 8889 39 39 39 40 Wheaton on Independent States . 40 James Madison on the term States ...... New American Cyclopædia on the Sovereignty of a State ......... . Montesquieu on Sovereign States , and Crab ...
... Judge Story on a Sovereign State . 8889 39 39 39 40 Wheaton on Independent States . 40 James Madison on the term States ...... New American Cyclopædia on the Sovereignty of a State ......... . Montesquieu on Sovereign States , and Crab ...
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... Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States ; by editors of newspapers , and by authors of literary publications which are , in many respects , accurate and valuable . For example- VII . Sovereignty " retained . " The Articles of ...
... Judges of the Supreme Court of the United States ; by editors of newspapers , and by authors of literary publications which are , in many respects , accurate and valuable . For example- VII . Sovereignty " retained . " The Articles of ...
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... judge for itself , as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress . " XV . Tucker's Blackstone . The ... Judges of the General Court of that State . with foreign nations , and with each other . Their 18 GOVERNMENT OF THE.
... judge for itself , as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress . " XV . Tucker's Blackstone . The ... Judges of the General Court of that State . with foreign nations , and with each other . Their 18 GOVERNMENT OF THE.
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... , whether supreme or subordinate , are the mere creatures of the sovereign power , designed to expound and carry into effect its sovereign will . No independent State ever yet submitted to a judge on the bench the true 20 GOVERNMENT OF THE.
... , whether supreme or subordinate , are the mere creatures of the sovereign power , designed to expound and carry into effect its sovereign will . No independent State ever yet submitted to a judge on the bench the true 20 GOVERNMENT OF THE.
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John Brown Dillon. yet submitted to a judge on the bench the true con- struction of the compact between himself ( ? ) and another sovereign . " ** * " I think I have now shown that the right of a State to judge of infractions of the ...
John Brown Dillon. yet submitted to a judge on the bench the true con- struction of the compact between himself ( ? ) and another sovereign . " ** * " I think I have now shown that the right of a State to judge of infractions of the ...
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Page 128 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties,...
Page 130 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Page 17 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general...
Page 128 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 138 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 128 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 84 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 130 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces, in the service of the United States, shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace; appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Page 128 - No state shall be represented in congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 111 - No State shall enter into any Treaty, Alliance, or Confederation . . .," but also that "No State shall, without the Consent of Congress . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.