 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 620 pages
...sovereignty."— [2 Dallas' Kejiuils, 419.] Marshall, chief justice United Ktalc-s Supreme Court, say: "It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the Slate sover"eignties, and had notliint; more to give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...perfect liberty to accept or reject it ; and their action was final. It required not the affirmance of, and could not be negatived by, the state governments....complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties. The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and... | |
 | Charles Bishop Goodrich - United States - 1853 - 364 pages
...liberty to accept or reject it ; and their action was final. It required not the affirmance of, an4 could not be negatived by, the state governments....complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties. The government of the Union, then, is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and... | |
 | United States - 1855 - 560 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 act was final. IT HEQCIHED NOT TITE AFFIRMANCE AND COULD NOT DE NEGATIVED BY THE STATE GOVERNMENTS. The Constitution,... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - Vermont - 1921 - 676 pages
...people; but the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final ; that the Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties; that the government of the Union is, emphatically, and truly, a government of the people, in form and... | |
 | Friends of the Union (Baltimore, Md.) - Maryland - 1861 - 68 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...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. 42 "It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the State sovereignties,... | |
 | Education - 1897 - 678 pages
...in calling a convention, and thus submitting that Instrument to the pepple. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject It; and their...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. This government is acknowledged by all to be one of enumerated powers. The principle, that it can exercise... | |
 | John Jay - Confederate States of America - 1864 - 80 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...complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties." From that time, for all the purposes declared by the Constitution, the people of the United States... | |
 | Jonas Mills Bundy - State rights - 1870 - 62 pages
...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, and could not be negatived by the State sovereignties. "It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the State... | |
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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,... 
