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... and by promising for the State and imposing upon the citizens of the State an acquiescence in the acts ' which we have declared to be a usurpation ' ' until the legislature shall otherwise and ultimately decide .
... and by promising for the State and imposing upon the citizens of the State an acquiescence in the acts ' which we have declared to be a usurpation ' ' until the legislature shall otherwise and ultimately decide .
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With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
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In the year 1821 he expressed himself in this emphatic manner : " It is a fatal heresy to suppose that either our State governments are superior to the Federal or the Federal to the State ; neither is authorized literally to decide ...
In the year 1821 he expressed himself in this emphatic manner : " It is a fatal heresy to suppose that either our State governments are superior to the Federal or the Federal to the State ; neither is authorized literally to decide ...
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bound to submit to the decision , and are not to be allowed to examine and decide for themselves , when the barriers of the Constitution shall be overleaped , this is practically " a Government without limitation of powers .
bound to submit to the decision , and are not to be allowed to examine and decide for themselves , when the barriers of the Constitution shall be overleaped , this is practically " a Government without limitation of powers .
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... general Government or any branch of it ; but that , on the contrary , the States may lawfully decide for themselves , and each State for itself , whether , in a given case , the act of the general Government transcends its power .
... general Government or any branch of it ; but that , on the contrary , the States may lawfully decide for themselves , and each State for itself , whether , in a given case , the act of the general Government transcends its power .
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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