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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... "
Southern History of the War: The Last Year of the War - Page 261
by Edward Alfred Pollard - 1866 - 363 pages
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Jefferson's Great Gamble: The Remarkable Story of Jefferson, Napoleon and ...

Charles Cerami - History - 2004 - 322 pages
...fifteenth state was being formed, he contributed the rousingly free-spirited Kentucky Resolutions, writing: Resolved, that the several states composing the United...unlimited submission to their general government.... That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent...
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The Papers of John C. Calhoun, Volume 28

John Caldwell Calhoun, Clyde Norman Wilson - Biography & Autobiography - 1959 - 270 pages
...latter, it is proper to give the two corresponding resolutions. The former is in the following words : "That the several States, composing the United States...united on the principle of unlimited submission to the general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a constitution of the United...
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John C. Calhoun: Selected Writings and Speeches

John Caldwell Calhoun - History - 2003 - 766 pages
...latter, it is proper to give the two corresponding resolutions. The former is in the following words: "That the several States, composing the United States...united on the principle of unlimited submission to the general government; but that, by a compact under the style and title of a constitution of the United...
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Constitutional Debate in Action: Governmental powers

H. L. Pohlman - Law - 2004 - 340 pages
..."heresy" to assert that the legislature, by way of Box 1.3 KENTUCKY RESOLUTION (November 10, 1798) 1. 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...
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The Library of Original Sources: Volume VIII (1800 - 1833)

Oliver J. Thatcher - History - 2004 - 476 pages
...which he delivered in at the clerk's table, where they were twice read and agreed to by the House. 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...
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Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States ..., Volume 9

Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 512 pages
...introduced in and passed by the general assembly of Kentucky in 1798, had this initial resolution: "Resolved, That the several States composing the United...government, but that by compact under the style and title of the Constitution of the United States and by amendments thereto, they constituted a general government...
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Confederate Military History: A Library of Confederate States History ...

Clement A. Evans - History - 2004 - 784 pages
...famous Kentucky resolutions of 1798, drawn by Jefferson, affirm that the States composing the Union are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; that each State, while delegating certain definite powers to that government, reserved the residuary...
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Conceived in Liberty: The Struggle to Define the New Republic, 1789-1793

Lance Banning - History - 2004 - 116 pages
...introduced in Federalist 39, on which they both would build. "The several states," Jefferson premised, had not united "on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government." Rather, by a "compact" to which each was party, "they constituted a general government for special...
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Who Belongs in America?: Presidents, Rhetoric, and Immigration

Vanessa B. Beasley - Political Science - 2006 - 318 pages
...a series of resolves that were approved by the Kentucky legislature in 1799. 38 They read in part: 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...
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One Nation, Indivisible?: A Study of Secession and the Constitution

Robert F. Hawes - Political Science - 2006 - 357 pages
...In protesting the Alien and Sedition Acts on the behalf of the State of Kentucky, Jefferson wrote: "The several States composing the United States of...unlimited submission to their General Government," and gave the following warning: These and successive acts of the same character, unless arrested at...
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