 | Homer Carey Hockett - United States - 1925 - 470 pages
...to the resolutions of some of the other states: "A nullification by those sovereignties [the states] of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." This phraseology leaves it uncertain, however, whether Jefferson thought the "sovereignties" could... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - School integration - 1965 - 182 pages
...instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties of...under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy ; and "That, although this State, as a party to the Federal compact, will bow to the laws of the Union,... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Judiciary - 1965 - 182 pages
...instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and that a nullification, by those sovereignties of...under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy ; and "That, although this State, as a party to the Federal compact, will bow to the laws of the Union,... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...formed the Constitution are "sovereign and independent," with the power to judge violations of it, and that "a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done" under the Constitution "is the rightful remedy" for such violations. (Jefferson's original 1798 draft for... | |
 | Jerome A. McDuffie, Gary Wayne Piggrem, Steven E. Woodworth - Study Aids - 1990 - 650 pages
...Resolutions, Jefferson clearly established the theory of nullification when he wrote: 'That a nullification of those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts done...color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." During the presidency of James Madison, the New England Federalists, now in the minority, revived the... | |
 | Wayne D. Moore - Constitutional history - 1998 - 312 pages
...Constitution], being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a nullification, by those sovereignties,...done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.32 These resolutions reflect a significantly stronger conception of state authority than the... | |
 | Joseph M. Lynch - Constitutional history - 2005 - 340 pages
...instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a nullification, by those sovereignties,...under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy . . . [And although the] commonwealth, as a party to the federal compact, will bow to the laws of the... | |
 | James C. Klotter - History - 1992 - 412 pages
...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a nullification of [by] those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts...color of that instrument is the rightful remedy." in the west, and Kentuckians had an important role and suffered many of the casualties in the region's... | |
 | John Phillip Reid - History - 2000 - 500 pages
...right" of the states to judge infractions of the federal Constitution and "that a nullification of those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done...under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy. . . ,"73 James Madison, however, in the brief Virginia Resolutions of 1798, advanced a more explicit... | |
 | James J. Magee - Freedom of speech - 2002 - 362 pages
...instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction; and That a nullification, by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under colour of that instrument, is the rightful remedy: That this commonwealth does upon the most deliberate... | |
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