 | Edward Hamilton (of Boston.) - State rights - 1880 - 88 pages
...James Madison, who justly has been styled " the Father of the Constitution," in the Federalist, says: " Each State in ratifying the Constitution, is considered...sovereign body, independent of all others, and only bound by its own voluntary acts. In this relation, then, the new Constitution will, if established,... | |
 | James Breckinridge Waller - Enslaved persons - 1880 - 104 pages
...separate acts of state sovereignty, and maintaining that the "Federalist" was right in declaring (No. 39), that "each state, in ratifying the constitution, is...considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others. The act, therefore, establishing the constitution, will not be a national but a federal act, the act... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...nation, the will of the majority of the whole people of the united states, would bind the minority. . . . Each state, in ratifying the constitution, is considered...bound by its own voluntary act. In this relation, the new constitution will, if established, be a federal, and not a national, constitution." This is... | |
 | jefferson davis - 1881 - 778 pages
...evidence of the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these has been adopted. Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered...others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act." * It is a tedious task to have to expose the misstatements, both * "Federalist," No. xxxix. of fact... | |
 | Jefferson Davis - Confederate States of America - 1881 - 786 pages
...evidence of the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these has been adopted. Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered...others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act." * It is a tedious task to have to expose the misstatements, both *" Federalist," No. mix. of fact and... | |
 | Bernard Janin Sage - Constitutional history - 1881 - 656 pages
...is conclusive on this subject, in Number 39 of the Federalist. " Each state," says he, ratifies, " as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act;" and therefore he asserts it to be " & federal, and not a national constitution." The italics are his.... | |
 | Democratic Party (U.S.) National committee, 1884-1888 - Campaign literature - 1884 - 314 pages
...the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered...established, be a federal and not a national constitution. " The next relation is to the sources from which the ordinary powers of government are to be derived.... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Constitutional law - 1884 - 882 pages
...the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. .Each state, in ratifying the constitution, is considered...this relation, then, the new constitution will, if establish.•(!. be a. federal and not a national constitution." See siifini, § 19. 27 " The people... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton - Finance - 1886 - 652 pages
...the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered...established, be a federal, and not a national constitution. The next relation is, to the sources from which the ordinary powers of government are to be derived.... | |
 | Percy Greg - United States - 1887 - 520 pages
...the will of a majority of the people of the United States. Neither of these rules has been adopted. Each State in ratifying the constitution is considered...established, be a federal and not a national constitution.' 1 The preamble of the Constitution has been perverted to a • These italics are mine ; the rest are... | |
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Each State, in ratifying the Constitution, is considered as a sovereign body independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act. 
