 This right to secede is deduced from the nature of the Constitution, which, they say, is a compact between sovereign states, who have preserved their whole sovereignty, and, therefore, are subject to no superior; that, because they made the compact, they...  House Documents, Otherwise Publ. as Executive Documents: 13th Congress, 2d ... - Page 80by United States. Congress. HouseFull view - About this book
 | William Cobbett - Great Britain - 1832 - 844 pages
...have preserved their whole sovereignty, and, therefore, are «uhject to no superior ; that, because they made the compact, they can break it when, in...government sufficiently to see the radical error on which its rests. The pe.iple of the United Stales formed the constitution, acting througn the state legislature... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Senate - Government publications - 1833 - 432 pages
...•who have preserved their whole sovereignty, and therefore are subject to no superior ; that because they made the compact, they can break it, when in...States. Fallacious as this course of reasoning is, it unites State pride, and finds advocates in the honest prejudices of those who have not studied the... | |
 | New York (State). Legislature. Assembly - New York (State) - 1833 - 636 pages
...who have preserved their whole sovereignty. and therefore are subject to no superior ; that because they made the compact, they can break it, when in...States. Fallacious as this course of reasoning is, it unites State pride, and finds advocates in the honest prejudices of those who have not studied the... | |
 | Joseph Blunt - History - 1835 - 810 pages
...therefore, are subject to no superior; that, because they made the compact, they can break it wfien, in their opinion, it has been departed from by the...error on which it rests. The people of the United Stntes formed the constitution, acting through the state legislatures in making the compact, to meet... | |
 | William Jackson,1835 - 1835 - 814 pages
...who have preserved their whole sovereignty, and, therefore, are subject to no superior; that, because they made the compact, they can break it when, in...who have not studied the nature of our government sufficient, ly to see the radical error on which it rests. The people of the United States formed the... | |
 | Great Britain - 1833 - 472 pages
...preserved thfir whole sovereignty, and, therefore, are subject to no superior ; that, because they rnac'e the compact, they can break it when, in their opinion,...who have not studied the nature of our government sufficici.tly to see the radical error on which its rests. The people of the United States formed the... | |
 | Georg Friedrich Martens, Frédéric Murhard - Europe - 1842 - 902 pages
...States. Fallacious as this course of reasoiling is, it enlists State pride, and finds advocates in 1832 the honest prejudices of those who have not studied...error on -which it rests. The People of The United Stales formed the Constitution ; acting through the Slate Legislature , in making the Compact , to... | |
 | Georg Friedrich Martens - Europe - 1842 - 940 pages
...preserved their whole sovereignty, and therefore are subject to no superior: ihat because they made thé Compact , they can break it, when, in their opinion, it has been departed from by thé other States. Fallacious as this course of reas soning is, it enlisls State pride, and finds advocates... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...who have preserved their whole sovereignty, and, therefore, are subject to no superior; that, because they made the compact, they can break it when, in...states. Fallacious as this course of reasoning is, it enlists.state pride, and finds advocates in the honest prejudices of those who have not studied the... | |
 | Criticism - 1861 - 1148 pages
...who have preserved their whole sovereignty, and therefore are subject to no superior ; that because they made the compact they can break it, when, in...opinion, it has been departed from by the other States." " But the terms \ised in the construction [of the Constitution] shows it to be a government in which... | |
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