 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...in calling a convention; and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their...constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation; bound the state sovereignties; and the government proceeded directly from the people." 4 Wh. 40.3,... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - Constitutional history - 1841 - 452 pages
...in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their...when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and '-iiiin.il the State sovereignties.'' " To the formation of a league, such as was the confederation,... | |
 | Edmund Burke - 1841 - 1092 pages
...— 2 Dullas's k ports, 419. Marshall, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, says "It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their po ers to the State sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But, sure the question whether they... | |
 | Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people" — " but the people were at liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was...could not be negatived by the State governments," and that the constitution obtained its complete obligation directly from the people, and not from the... | |
 | United States - 1842 - 712 pages
...fellow citizens, and as joint tenants in the sovereignly." — 2 Dallas's Reports, 219. MARSHALL. — " It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers lo the slate sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But surely the question, whether they may... | |
 | Henry St. George Tucker - Constitutional law - 1843 - 254 pages
...in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their...adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state scjvereignties. "It has been said, that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 436 pages
...the act of the people themselves, or become the measure of the state governments. It has, to be sure, been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state governments, and had nothing more to give. Bat the question whether the people may resume and modify... | |
 | William Alexander Duer - Constitutional law - 1843 - 442 pages
...and thus submitting the new scheme of government to the people. But the people of each state were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. The Constitution required not the affirmance of the state governments, nor could it be negatived by... | |
 | Child rearing - 1845 - 436 pages
...ratified by the people, it became of perfect obligation, and bound the states. It has, to be sure, been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state governments, and had nothing more to give. But the question whether the people may resume and modify... | |
 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...the convention,) was a mere proposal, without obligation or pretension to it." " The people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was final." — SfCuttock vs. Maryland, — 1 Whealon 403-4. tate of both law and common sense.* The instrument... | |
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The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance,... 
