 The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them, its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly...  The Congressional Globe - Page 325by United States. Congress - 1833Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1909 - 746 pages
...this recognized as to draw from Chief Justice Marshall, in McCulloch v. Maryland, the sharp reproof: " This government is acknowledged by all to be one of...the powers granted to it would seem too apparent to have required to be enforced by all those arguments which its enlightened friends, while it was depending... | |
 | Ambrose Spencer - Andersonville (Ga.) - 1866 - 294 pages
...eminent jurists, given in 4 Wheaton, 316 : " The government of the Union is a government of the people ; it emanates from them, its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised for their benefit; and the government which has a right to do and act, and has imposed upon it the... | |
 | John Alexander Ferris - Business & Economics - 1867 - 378 pages
...clear a principle—again by CJ Marshall, in McCullough vs. the State of Maryland (4 Wheat. 405): " This Government is acknowledged by all to be one of...the powers granted to it would seem too apparent to have required to be enforced by all those arguments which its enlightened friends, while it was depending... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1868 - 672 pages
...emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Ita powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them and for their benefit ... It is the government of all, its powers are delegated by all,, it represents al], and acts for... | |
 | United States. Congress. House - United States - 1868 - 902 pages
...given in 4 Wheaton, 316. The government of the Uiiion is a government of the people, ¡t ernanntes from them, its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised for their benefit ; and the government which has a right to do and act, and has imposed upon it the... | |
 | Jonas Mills Bundy - State rights - 1870 - 62 pages
...government of the Union, then, * * .* is practically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them. Its powers...exercised directly on them, and for their benefit." No apology is necessary for so lengthy an extract from this celebrated decision. Aside from the high... | |
 | California. Legislature. Senate - California - 1870 - 916 pages
...of the Constitution. In this same case, he says further: •' This Government is acknowledged to bo one of enumerated powers. The principle that it can exercise only the powers granted to it, i* now universally admitted." In the case of Briseoe vs. The Bank of the Commonwealth of Kentucky,... | |
 | 1871 - 778 pages
...vs. Maryland (4 Wheaton, 316), says : " The Government of the Union is a government of the people. It emanates from them ; its powers are granted by...exercised directly on them, and for their benefit." Many similar quotations might be given, for this idea is very common with "the expounders" and their... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - States' rights (American politics) - 1871 - 156 pages
...case), is, emphatically and truly, a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanated from them. Its powers are granted by them, and are...exercised directly on them, and for their benefit." — Wheaton's Reports, Vol. IV, p. 405. X. Andrew Jackson, in 1832. In a Proclamation issued by Andrew... | |
 | John Brown Dillon - Federal government - 1871 - 148 pages
...and established by the will of the people of tlie United States; and that its powers are granted Iby them, "and are to "be exercised directly on them, and for their "benefit."—Wheatorts Reports^ Vol. IV, p. 316. .This theory of the nature of the Government of the... | |
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