 | Frank P. King - Political Science - 1997 - 260 pages
...legislature on November 16, 1798, and November 22, 1799. Both forms were, in essence, drafted by Jefferson: "Resolved, That the several States composing the United...submission to their general government; but that, by a compact . . . they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - History - 1998 - 76 pages
...or to so much as shall make up (a full 50 acres) . . . [Draft Constitution for Virginia, 1776] T*T Resolved, That the several States composing the United...submission to their General Government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto,... | |
 | Richard N. Rosenfeld - History - 1998 - 1012 pages
...ADVERTISER KENTUCKY LEGISLATURE . . . The I Kentucky I House . . . moved the following RESOLUTIONS . . . I. Resolved, That the several states composing the United...of unlimited submission to their general government . . . that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative,... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1999 - 588 pages
...Resolution, one dissentient; Id, Sd, 4lh, 5th, Gth, Ttli. 8th, two dissentients; 9th, three dissentients. I. Resolved, That the several States composing the United...compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special... | |
 | Joseph M. Lynch - History - 2005 - 340 pages
...course. His resolution, as ultimately adopted by the Kentucky legislature, opened with the premise THAT THE SEVERAL STATES COMPOSING the United States...compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States . . . they constituted a general government for special purposes; . . . and that... | |
 | Harry V. Jaffa - Presidents - 2004 - 574 pages
...to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.63 That the states are not united "on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government" is true because no citizen of any state, any more than of the United States, is united with any other... | |
 | Thomas Cooper - Philosophy - 2001 - 238 pages
...Jeifcrson, and containing his opinions, is as follows. " Resolved, that the several states comprising the United states of America, are not united on the...but that by compact under the style and title of a Conptitution for the Uuited blates, and ot the amendments thereto, they constitute a general Government... | |
 | Andrew Lenner - History - 2001 - 248 pages
...repeated these arguments. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798, for example, declared that the states were not "united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government." They were therefore determined "to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness... | |
 | Edward J. Dodson - Social Science - 2002 - 600 pages
...Philadelphia. Moreover, the nature of the powers delegated existed by voluntary consent of each State: 1. Resolved, That the several States composing the United...submission to their general government, but that by a compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto,... | |
 | David Gordon - Business & Economics - 362 pages
...Resolutions, although watered down somewhat from Jefferson's rough draft, began with the ringing declaration that the several states composing the United States...submission to their general government; but that by a compact . . . they . . . delegated to [that government] certain definite powers, reserving . . .... | |
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Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States... 
