 | United States - 1832 - 918 pages
...discretion, and not the Const it u 'ion, the measure of its power; but that, as in all cases of compacts among parties having no common judge, each party has...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." In the Virginia resolutions, from the pen of Mr. Madison, we find the following position maintained:... | |
 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 1002 pages
...the Federal government was not the final judge of the extent of its powers, and that each State had an equal right to judge for itself as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress, which was universally maintained at that time and for the next fifty years, was by the war determined... | |
 | Samuel Williams - Natural history - 1809 - 496 pages
...the states .constituted the gen- i * eral government, and that each state as party ' to the compact, has an equal right to judge for ' itself as well of infractions of the constitution, 'as of the mode and measure of redress."..., ' This cannot be true. The old confederation,... | |
 | John Taylor - United States - 1820 - 378 pages
...discretion, and not " the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but, that as in " all other cases of compact among parties having no common " judge,...judge for itself, as " well of infractions as of the measure of redress." The coordinacy of institution, the independence of each other, and the mutuality... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 540 pages
...its discretion, .and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." A few observations will be hazarded on the matters contained in this resolution, as is the course of... | |
 | Humphrey Marshall - Kentucky - 1824 - 542 pages
...powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each partj has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." A few observations will be hazarded on the matters contained in this resolution, as is the course of... | |
 | United States - 1833 - 670 pages
...discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other compacts among parties having no common judge, each party has...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Mr. D. said, that this doctrine of nullification originated with Thomas Jefferson, is admitted by one... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1833 - 746 pages
...discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its power; but that, as in all cases of compacts among parties having no common judge, each party has...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." In the Virginia resolutions, from the pen of Mr. Madison, we find the following position maintained:... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties, having no common judge,...right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as the mode ami measure of redress." In the Kentucky resolutions of "98, it is even more explicitly declared,... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1831 - 692 pages
...R. and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact, having no common judge, each party has an equal right...itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and manner of redress." This subject was re-examined in 1790, and the resolutions previously adopted were... | |
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That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all... 
