 | Samuel Gordon Heiskell - 1921 - 852 pages
...Representatives of the United States, to promote the general good. "The Constitution of the United States then forms a government, not a league; and whether it be...compact between the states, or in any other manner, it character is the same. It is a government in which all the people are represented, which operates... | |
 | Charles Emanuel Martin, William Henry George - 1927 - 794 pages
...destructive of the ends for which it was established. "The Constitution of the United States, then, forms a government, not a league; and whether it be formed by compact between the States, or in some other manner, its character is the same. It is a Government in which all the people are represented,... | |
 | William MacDonald - 1926 - 742 pages
...people ot all the States collectively are represented. . . . The Constitution of the United States then forms a government, not a league ; and whether it...expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute, jointl" with the other States, a single nation, cannot, from that period, possess any right to secede,... | |
 | Francis Fisher Browne, Waldo Ralph Browne, Scofield Thayer - 1884 - 350 pages
...in 1832, President Jackson said that the Constitution forms a government, not a league, "and whether formed by compact between the states, or in any other manner, its character is the same." It is absurd to suppose that Washington and his associate framers in 1789 regarded it as a rope of sand.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - 1901 - 992 pages
...senator. " The Constitution of the United States," said Jackson to the followers of Hayne and Calhoun, "forms a government, not a league; and whether it...or in any other manner, its character is the same. ... I consider the power to annul a law of the United States incompatible with the existence of the... | |
 | Tennessee Bar Association - 1900 - 880 pages
...secession or of nullification ask than this language : "The constitution of the United States, then, forms a government, not a league ; and whether it be formed by a compact between the States or in any other manner, its character is the same. It is a government... | |
 | Horace Greeley - 1864 - 696 pages
...State Eights," theory of our Federation, in these words : "The Constitution of the United State*, then, forms a Government, not a league; and, whether it...States, or in any other manner, its character is the saqie. It is a government in which all the people are represented, which acts directly on the people... | |
 | Carl Schurz - 1899 - 494 pages
...proclamation against the nulliners, • which spoke thus : — " The Constitution of the United States forms a government, not a league; and whether it be...or in any other manner, its character is the same. ... I consider the power to annul a law of the United States incompatible with the existence of the... | |
 | Kenneth M. Stampp - 1981 - 342 pages
...conventions when they ratified those provisions." Thus, they formed "a government, not a league. ... It is a Government in which all the people are represented,...on the people individually, not upon the States." The individual states did not retain all their sovereignty, for their citizens transferred their allegiance... | |
 | Edward Millican - 292 pages
...Andrew Jackson's proclamation on the nullification crisis, in which he says that the United States "is a government in which all the people are represented,...on the people individually, not upon the States"; that "each State" has "parted with so many powers as to constitute, jointly with the other States,... | |
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