 | Ezra B. Chase - Slavery - 1861 - 514 pages
...discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other casi;s of compact among parties having no common judge, each,...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress. 2. Besolufd, That the Constitution of the United States having delegated to Congress a power to punish... | |
 | Taliaferro Preston Shaffner - Slavery - 1862 - 438 pages
...states as principals, holding vested powers. They declared, " that, as in other cases of compact between parties having no common judge, each party has an...itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measures of redress." Thus, in 1852, the democratic party, assembled in national convention — consisting... | |
 | James Williams - Campaign literature - 1862 - 538 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...parties having no common judge, each party has an equal nght to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of tne mode and measure of redress. This was the... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 396 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. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States is a compact between the several States, as States,... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 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. Kesolved, That the Constitution of the United States is a compact between the several States, as States,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 1863 - 438 pages
...delegated to it — 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 other is in the following words : " That the construction applied by the general government, (as... | |
 | George McHenry - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 372 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...to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of th(*mode and measure of redress. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States is a compact... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - History - 1864 - 628 pages
...itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its power ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Here Mr. JEFFERSON asserts that a State aggrieved shall judge not only of the mode, but the measure... | |
 | Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its power ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." Here Mr. JEFFERSON asserts that a State aggrieved shall judge not only of the mode, but the measure... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 368 pages
...the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself [but that Wisconsin was] but that, as in all other cases, of compact among...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress. "Resolved, That the principle and construe tion contended for, by the party which now rules in the... | |
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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... 
