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" However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying the foundations of... "
Address Delivered Before the Harvard Musical Association in the Chapel of ... - Page 11
by William Wetmore Story - 1842 - 24 pages
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The Federalist: A Collection of Essays

Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1901 - 520 pages
...authority might repeal the law by which it was ratified. However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid...
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Liberty Documents: With Contemporary Exposition and Critical Comments Drawn ...

Albert Bushnell Hart - Political Science - 1901 - 498 pages
...authority might repeal the law, by which it was ratified. However gross a heresy it may be to maintain, that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that...foundations of our national government deeper, than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid...
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American orators

Mayo Williamson Hazeltine - Speeches, addresses, etc - 1903 - 464 pages
...mere compact. "However gross a heresy," say the writers of the "Federalist," "it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid...
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Studies in Constitutional History

James Oscar Pierce - Constitutional history - 1906 - 352 pages
...reprobated that idea as a heresy, Hamilton urged that the compact theory be wholly eliminated, and said : "The possibility of a question of this nature proves...foundations of our national government deeper, than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid...
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The Michigan Alumnus, Volume 12

Cooking - 1906 - 1026 pages
...authority might repeal the law by which it was ratified. However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that...doctrine itself has had respectable advocates The fabric of American Empire ought (therefore) to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE."...
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Is Davis a Traitor: Or, was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the ...

Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1907 - 286 pages
...to have been founded on a compact between the States, f " it was deemed a gross heresy to maintain, that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact ;"J or to set it aside at pleasure. Thus the very inference which he admits in one breath, he pronounces...
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American Government and Politics

Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 840 pages
...be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has respectable advocates. The possibility of a question...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid...
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American Government and Politics

Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 814 pages
...authority might repeal the law by which it was ratified. However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying...
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American Government and Politics

Charles Austin Beard - Political science - 1910 - 798 pages
...authority might repeal the law by which it was ratified. However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature proves the necessity of laying...
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The Supreme Court and the Constitution

Charles Austin Beard - United States - 1912 - 144 pages
...be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has respectable advocates. The possibility of a question...foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric oLAmerican empire ought to rest on the solid...
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