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" Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury... "
Richardson's Defense of the South - Page 74
by John Anderson Richardson - 1914 - 598 pages
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The Sectional Controversy: Or, Passages in the Political History of the ...

William Chauncey Fowler - United States - 1863 - 284 pages
...in the name and behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted...
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The works of John C. Calhoun [ed. by R.K. Crallé].

John Caldwell Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 1863 - 438 pages
...name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression; and that every power not granted...
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Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Session of the ...

Lucius Eugene Chittenden - History - 1864 - 628 pages
...that Virginia, in accepting the Constitution, declared that the powers granted under that instrument " being derived from the people of the United States,...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." I referred, also, to the fact that New York had adopted the Constitution upon the same condition and...
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A Report of the Debates and Proceedings in the Secret Sessions of the ...

Lucius Eugene Chittenden - Conference Convention - 1864 - 774 pages
...that Virginia, in accepting the Constitution, declared that the powers granted under that instrument " being derived from the people of the United States,...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." I referred, also, to the fact that New York had adopted the Constitution upon the same condition and...
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The Old Guard: A Monthly Journal Devoted to the Principles of 1776 ..., Volume 2

United States - 1864 - 350 pages
...Constitution, being derived from the people of the United Stat™, may be resumed by them whemoc.ofr tlv, same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will ; that, therefore, no right of any denomination can be cancelled, abridged,...
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Free Government in England and America: Containing the Great ..., Volume 25

John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known, that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted...
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France and the Confederate States

John Welsford Cowell - United States - 1865 - 46 pages
...your Act of Accession to the new Union in 1788. You therein declare 'that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the people of...that every power not granted thereby remains with them and at their will.' Must not the phrase, ' people of the United States,' be taken to mean all...
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The History of the Civil War in the United States: Its Cause, Origin ...

Samuel Mosheim Smucker - United States - 1865 - 1244 pages
...when she gave her adhesion to the General Government. She then declared that "the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." In this statement no allusion is made to the reserved and sovereign right of the individual States...
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1829-1836

James Madison - United States - 1865 - 768 pages
...Constitution, being derived from the peoplo of the United States, may bo resumed by them whensoever tho same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...that every power not granted thereby remains with them, and at their will. That, therefore, no right of any denomination can be cancelled, abridged,...
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The Lost Cause: A New Southern History of the War of the Confederates ...

Edward Alfred Pollard - Confederate States of America - 1866 - 782 pages
...name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The State of New York said that " the powers of Government may be re-assumed by the people whenever...
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