Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) |
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That , in case of a deliberate , palpable , and dangerous exercise of powers not granted by the compact , the States who are parties thereto have a right , and are in duty bound , to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil ...
That , in case of a deliberate , palpable , and dangerous exercise of powers not granted by the compact , the States who are parties thereto have a right , and are in duty bound , to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil ...
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Virginia exercises the right that pertains to a State - all the right that , in the premises , she pretends to - in passing the resolutions , declaring her views , and inviting the like action of her co - States .
Virginia exercises the right that pertains to a State - all the right that , in the premises , she pretends to - in passing the resolutions , declaring her views , and inviting the like action of her co - States .
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people of no one State have ever delegated to their legislature the power of pronouncing an act of Congress unconstitutional ; but they have delegated to them powers , by the exercise of which the execution of the laws of Congress ...
people of no one State have ever delegated to their legislature the power of pronouncing an act of Congress unconstitutional ; but they have delegated to them powers , by the exercise of which the execution of the laws of Congress ...
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They are necessarily remitted to their own sovereign will , deliberately expressed , in the exercise of those reserved rights of sovereignty , the delegation of which would have been an act of political suicide .
They are necessarily remitted to their own sovereign will , deliberately expressed , in the exercise of those reserved rights of sovereignty , the delegation of which would have been an act of political suicide .
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... limit and control them , and that every exercise of them for any other purpose is a violation of the Constitution as unwarrantable as the undisguised assumption of substantive independent powers not granted or expressly withheld .
... limit and control them , and that every exercise of them for any other purpose is a violation of the Constitution as unwarrantable as the undisguised assumption of substantive independent powers not granted or expressly withheld .
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