South is broken, and they submit themselves to their duty to obey, and our right to have obeyed, the Constitution of the United States, as Executive Power - Page 12by Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pagesFull view - About this book
| California Bar Association - Bar associations - 1923 - 978 pages
...our Supreme Court have been usurpers in their efforts to comply with their oaths of office and uphold the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. A Self-Governing- Bar. The paramount duty immediately confronting us is to secure the enactment by... | |
| United States - 1915 - 1134 pages
...the legislative nullification which Calhoun had attempted in South Carolina. He had sworn to regard the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land and the National authority as paramount over that of the States. He could not violate that oath, no... | |
| Constitutional law - 1926 - 276 pages
...the following features: First, the establishment of a federal or dual system of government in which the Constitution of the United States, as the supreme law of the land, distributed the powers between the states and the national government, the latter being a government... | |
| American periodicals - 1861 - 810 pages
...of secession to the latter, on any ground or under any pretence, it ordains and establishes in terms the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding. It would seem that... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 1228 pages
...which thus affect the government or the individual can never be upheld in any tribunal which recognizes the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. Neither the unlawf ul proceedings of the Confederate Government nor the judgment of its unauthorized... | |
| California. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1906 - 978 pages
...By the part thereof relied on, no more was intended or accomplished than the recognition in terms of the constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land as to all matters provided for therein, which was necessarily the fact whether so recognized or not,... | |
| Don Fehrenbacher, Virginia Fehrenbacher - History - 1996 - 674 pages
...should be the spontaneous action of the people. Let the conventions adopt a constitution recognizing the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, and, with other usual provisions, make their laws accordingly by their legislatures. Then they would,... | |
| Judith St. George - Juvenile Nonfiction - 1997 - 140 pages
...gathered in taverns and coffee houses. Finally, on September 17, 1787, the delegates voted to adopt the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. In celebration of both the Constitution and the Fourth of July, on July 4, 1788, Philadelphia put on... | |
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