...Rebellion Record, 1:3. Once again, compare this to the Kentucky and Virginia resolutions, which state that "the Government created by this compact was not...judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; . . . but in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal...

...force; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, as an integral party, its costates forming as to itself the other party; that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive and final judge of the powers delegated to itself . . . but that as in all other cases of compact among...

...party; its co-states forming as to itself, the other party; that government created by this Contract was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent...Constitution, the measure of its powers. But, that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to...

...to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created...Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among powers having no common judge, each party has an equal right to...

...correspondence with Madison discussed below at 106-107. The resolution declared that the national government "was not made the exclusive or final judge of the...not the Constitution, the measure of its powers." If the central government abuses its delegated powers, Jefferson wrote, the members "being chosen by...

...after all federal; to make the central government the ultimate judge of the extent of its own authority "would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers."274 Massachusetts turned the argument around: If each state were to determine when its reserved...

...several states did not unite "on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government," that "the government created by this compact was not...of the extent of the powers delegated to itself," and that the parties to the compact each retained "an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions...

...of no force; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party; that this government, created by this compact, was not made...of the extent of the powers delegated to itself;. . . but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has...

...Resolutions, above all in the dictum that "the government created by this compact [the Constitution] was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself."38 Whether rightly or wrongly, these resolutions were fateful in the development of Calhoun's...

...compact precluded the national government from being the "exclusive or final judge" of its powers, "since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers. . . ."71 Rather, the Resolutions concluded, each party to the compact (that is, the states) had "an...