State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States, 1. izdaja

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Herman Vandenburg Ames
University of Pennsylvania, 1900
 

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Stran 26 - That the General Assembly of Virginia doth unequivocally express a firm resolution to maintain and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the Constitution of this state, against every aggression either foreign or domestic; and that they will support the Government of the United States in all measures warranted by the former.
Stran 28 - Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Vermont do highly disapprove of the resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Virginia, as being unconstitutional in their nature, and dangerous in their tendency. It belongs not to State Legislatures to decide on the constitutionality of...
Stran 26 - At a general assembly of the state of Connecticut, holden at Hartford, in...
Stran 2 - Our not having acceded to, or adopted the new system of government formed and adopted by most of our sister States, we doubt not has given uneasiness to them: That we have not seen our way clear to do it...
Stran 44 - Whenever our national legislature is led to overleap the prescribed bounds of their constitutional powers, on the State legislatures, in great emergencies, devolves the arduous task — it is their right — it becomes their duty, to interpose their protecting shield between the right and liberty of the people, and the assumed power of the General Government.
Stran 22 - That this legislature are persuaded that the decision of all cases in law and equity, arising under the Constitution of the United States, and the construction of all laws made in pursuance thereof, are exclusively vested by the people in the judicial courts of the United States.
Stran 14 - Georgia; shall be, and he or they attempting to levy as aforesaid, are hereby declared to be guilty of felony, and shall suffer death, without the benefit of clergy,* by being hanged.
Stran 22 - ... pursuance thereof, are exclusively vested by the people in the judicial courts of the United States. That the people, in that solemn compact which is declared to be the supreme law of the land, have not constituted the state legislatures the judges of the acts or measures of the federal government, but have confided to them the power of proposing such amendments of the Constitution as shall appear to them necessary to the interests, or conformable to the wishes, of the people whom they represent.
Stran 41 - An ACT laying an Embargo on all ships and vessels in the ports and harbors of the United States.
Stran 3 - Can it be thought strange, then, that with these impressions they should wait to see the proposed system organized and in operation, to see what further checks and securities would be agreed to and established, by way of amendments, before they could adopt it as a constitution of government for themselves and their posterity...

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