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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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Reports ... Proceedings, Volume 21

Ohio State Bar Association - 1900 - 240 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." Replies were made by many of the states in which it was maintained that the Supreme Court of the United...
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Reports and public letters

John Caldwell Calhoun - 1883 - 462 pages
...their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authoiity to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated ; and, consequently, as parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient...
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House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th ..., Volume 1

United States. Congress. House - 1090 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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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 pages
...decide, in the last resort, whether the compact inndc by them bo violated; and consequently, thnt,ns the parties to it, they must themselves decide in...such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to acquire their interposition." Id. pp. 8, 9. (a.) In the Report of the Hartford Con- When emergencies...
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American Politics (non-partisan) from the Beginning to Date: Embodying a ...

Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - 1892 - 930 pages
...parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that labors, all along, to load his precedents. By way of defending decide, in the last resort, such questions as mav be of sufficient magnitude to require tiieir interposition."...
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Nullification, Secession, Webster's Argument, and the Kentucky and Virginia ...

Caleb William Loring - 1893 - 196 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 decide, in the last resort, whether the contract made by them be violated, and consequently that as the parties to it they must themselves...
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Reconstruction During the Civil War in the United States of America

Eben Greenough Scott - 1895 - 462 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. In the case of an intimate and constitutional union, like that of the United States, it is evident...
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American History Leaflets: Colonial and Constitutional

Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing - 1895 - 484 pages
...historical fact that, when every State had consented to it except one, she was not held to be bound ? But, the gentleman insists that the tribunal provided by the constitution for the decision of controversies between the States and the Federal Sovernmejjt, is the Supreme Court, and...
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Discovery of America

Jacob Abbott - 1860 - 312 pages
...historical fact that, when every State had consented to it except one, she was not held to be bound ? But, the gentleman insists that the tribunal provided by the constitution for the decision of controversies between the States and the Federal Government, is the Supreme Court, and...
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Constitutional Doctrines of Webster, Hayne and Calhoun

Daniel Webster - 1896 - 56 pages
...historical fact that, when every State had consented to it except one, she was not held to be bound ? But, the gentleman insists that the tribunal provided by the constitution for the decision of controversies between the States and the Federal Government, is the Supreme Court, and...
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