 | Jeremy D. Bailey - Political Science - 2007 - 275 pages
...outlined a program for nullification.116 As Jefferson put it, because the Constitution is a "compact," "each party has an equal right to judge for itself,...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress," and when the national government "assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and... | |
 | Tom Lansford, Thomas E. Woods, Jr. - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2007 - 120 pages
...the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right...infractions as of the mode and ;- measure of redress. KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS, RESOLUTION 1 (1798) VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS their respective states,... | |
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That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all... 
