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" The states then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated;... "
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal ... - Page 508
by Jonathan Elliot - 1836
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Cobbett's Weekly Register, Volume 79

1833 - 472 pages
...parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority to...sufficient magnitude to 'require their interposition." If this right does not exist in the several states, then it is clear that the discretion of Congress,...
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The Statutes at Large of South Carolina: Acts, records, and documents of a ...

South Carolina - 1836 - 476 pages
...parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows, of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to...they must themselves decide in the last resort, such It is a vain and idle dispute about words, to ask whether this right of State Interposition may be...
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History of the Federal Government, for Fifty Years: From March, 1789 to ...

Alden Bradford - 1840 - 498 pages
...having no common superior, " it follows of necessity," (to borrow the language of Mr. Madison,) " that there can be no tribunal above their authority to...the tribunal provided by the Constitution, for the decision of controversies between the States and the federal government, is the Supreme Court. It is...
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History of the Federal Government for Fifty Years : from March, 1789 to ...

Alden Bradford - 1840 - 494 pages
...having no common superior, " it follows of necessity," (to borrow the language of Mr. Madison,) " that there can be no tribunal above their authority to...the tribunal provided by the Constitution, for the decision of controversies between the States and the federal government, is the Supreme Court. It is...
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History of the Federal Government, for Fifty Years: From March, 1789 to ...

Alden Bradford - 1840 - 492 pages
...having no common superior, " it follows of necessity," (to borrow the language of Mr. Madison,)" that there can be no tribunal above their authority to...sufficient magnitude to require their interposition." . Hut the gentleman insists that the tribunal provided by the Constitution, for the decision of controversies...
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Lectures on Constitutional Law: For the Use of the Law Class at the ...

Henry St. George Tucker - 1843 - 254 pages
...parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority to...sufficient magnitude to require their interposition." Id. p. 8, 9. [* Such a heresy will not be found in these pages. While their author admits that every...
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The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws ...

Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1850 - 274 pages
...parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to...sufficient magnitude to require their interposition. It does not follow, however, that because the states, as sovereign parties to their constitutional...
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The Virginia Report of 1799-1800: Touching the Alien and Sedition Laws ...

Virginia. General Assembly. House of Delegates - 1850 - 272 pages
...parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to...questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require ^jheir interposition. /It does not follow, however, that because the states, as sovereign parties to...
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A Disquisition on government and a discourse on the Constitution and ...

John Caldwell Calhoun - 1851 - 436 pages
...other things, that the people of the States — acting in their sovereign capacity, have the right " to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated ;" and shows, conclusively, that, without it, and the right of the States to interfere to protect themselves...
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A Disquisition on Government, Volume 1

John Caldwell Calhoun - 1851 - 428 pages
...other things, that the people of the States — acting in their sovereign capacity, have the right " to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated ;" and shows, conclusively, that, without it, and the right of the States to interfere to protect themselves...
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