 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1866 - 716 pages
...Congress by the confederation, was to be granted authority to legislate in all cases to which the several States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; and also to negative all laws passed by the several States, contravening, in the opinion of the national... | |
 | William Alfred Jones - 1868 - 354 pages
...ib Congress by the Confederation and that moreover to Legislate in nil cases to which the sepe-rato States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of...individual Legislation, to negative all laws passed by the [sever- ' ul] individual States, contravening in the opinion of the National Legislature the articles... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - History - 1868 - 702 pages
...the States. With this view, a proposition was brought forward, to give the National Government power "to negative all laws, passed by the several States,...opinion of the National Legislature, the articles of Union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the Union." This proposition, if it had been... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - Constitutional law - 1869 - 856 pages
...enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation;" and, moreover, " to legislate on all cases to which the separate States are incompetent,...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; and to negative all laws passed by the several States contravening in the opinion of the national... | |
 | William Cabell Rives - United States - 1870 - 688 pages
...down to and including that which proposed to give it a negative " on all State laws, contra vening, in the opinion of the national legislature, the articles of the Union, or any treaties subsisting under the authority of the Union." This last clause being acceded to without debate... | |
 | Edward Isidore Sears - 1874 - 434 pages
...article that the senate ought to be elected by the house; it also proscribed the dangerous provision " to negative all laws passed by the several states...opinion of the national legislature, the articles of union or any treaty subsisting under the authority of the union, and to call forth the force of the... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 532 pages
...ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation ; and, moreover, to legislate in all cases to which the separate...incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may he interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation ; to negative all laws passed by the se^p'al... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1876 - 472 pages
...best in different cases. The legislature was to be empowered to pass laws "in all cases to which the States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation," also to negative all State laws (subject, however, to the approval of the council of revision) which... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and mon over to legislate in all cases to wliich tlie separate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony...States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legi.-lation ; to negative all laws pissed by the several states contravening, in the opinion of the... | |
 | John Torrey Morse (Jr.) - Founding Fathers of the United States - 1876 - 456 pages
...best in different cases. The legislature was to be empowered to pass laws "in all cases to which the States are incompetent, or in which the harmony of...interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation," also to negative all State laws (subject, however, to the approval of the council of revision) which... | |
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Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the... 
