 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention, Harvey Fowler - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 806 pages
...delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." [From the Second Resolve.] " The same act of congress passed on the 14th day of July, 1798, and entitled... | |
 | Massachusetts constitutional convention, 1853 - 1853 - 814 pages
...delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...each party has an equal right to judge for itself, at well of iofraction1 as of the mode and measure of redreti." [From the Second Resolve.] "The same... | |
 | Thomas Jefferson - United States - 1854 - 608 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...counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law... | |
 | Daniel Webster - United States - 1854 - 240 pages
...delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." At the ensuing session of the legislature, the subject was re-examined, and on the 14th of November,... | |
 | Andrew White Young - Constitutional history - 1855 - 1032 pages
...delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." The legislature of Kentucky, in 1799, reaffirmed their resolutiong of the preceding year. From their... | |
 | United States - Emigration and immigration law - 1856 - 350 pages
...delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but, that as in all other cases of compact,...INFRACTIONS AS OF THE MODE AND MEASURE OF REDRESS. against the laws of nations, and no other crimes whatever ; and it being true, as a general principle,... | |
 | Joel Parker - 1856 - 554 pages
...delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." We now quote the third of the Virginia Resolutions, passed in the House of Delegates, December 21,... | |
 | John Church Hamilton - United States - 1864 - 960 pages
...delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.'" On this principle, the remaining resolutions denounced the Alien and Sedition laws, and pronounced... | |
 | Michael W. Cluskey - Political Science - 1857 - 672 pages
...delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of e or labor as aforesaid, rnqde and measure of redress. 2. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States having delegated... | |
 | Henry Stephens Randall - Presidents - 1858 - 760 pages
...Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as I'D all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right...counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States, piracies, and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law... | |
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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... 
