...which each State acceded as a State and is an integral party, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the powers delegated to itself, since that would...and not the Constitution the measure of its powers. In 1799 he reaffirmed the declaration and added that the principle that the general government was...

...unauthoritative, void and of no force ; that to this compact each State acceded as a State and is an integral party; that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the power delegated to itself, since that would have made discretion and not the Constitution the measure...

...residuary mass of right to their own self-government." Neither did they make this general government "the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself," for that would have made the general government's discretion, not the Constitution, "the measure of...

...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 parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to...

...unnecessarily violent, but still declared, with all the emphasis needed, that the national government was not "the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the...Constitution, the measure of its powers," but that each party had an equal right to judge for itself as to an infraction of the compact, and the proper...

...title of a Constitution for the United States. . .that to this compact each State acceded as a State., .that the government created by this compact was not...of the extent of the powers delegated to itself..." 47 Prom Draft Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the Principles of the Constitution...

...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...compact was not made the exclusive or final judge ol the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not...

...unauthoritative, void, and of no force." The national government, even if all its branches agree, is not "the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself." With no common judge between federal and states' governments, "each party has an equal right to judge...

...decide when the federal government adopted unconstitutional policies? Surely not the federal government, "since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but ... as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal...

...unconstitutional acts are "unauthoritative, void, and of no force," and that the federal government "was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself. " As authors of the Constitution, the states had a preeminent "right to judge for itself" whether the...