...Declaration of Independence, used these prophetic words : — ' ' The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots 17 Madison Papers, Elliot's Debates, is a gradation from a simple corpora2d ed., vol. v, pp. 212, 213....

...to the People of the United States. The States are not sovereign States, American Museum, January, who framed this Declaration ; the several States are not even mentioned by name in anv part of it, as if it was intended to impress this maxim on America, that our freedom and independence...

...individual sovereignty of the sevi'> 1 Elliot, Debates, I. 207. . 3 Ibid., I. 391. eral States was never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed this Declaration." * Coming down to a later date, let us examine the Langdon opinion of one of the most eminent men South...

...not even enumerated, and makes this remarkable state-ment: "The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several states were never thought...enlight-ened band of patriots who framed this declaration." Mr. Adams, in the Fourth of July Oration (1831), says practi-cally the same thing. Mr. Dane, in the...

...not even enumerated, and makes this remarkable statement: "The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several states were never thought...enlightened band of patriots who framed this declaration." Mr. Adams, in the Fourth of July Oration (1831), says practically the same thing. Mr. Dane, in the...

...exclusive right of forming a constitution and laws for this Colony."1 — Colonial Records. X, 512. 4. "The several States are not even mentioned by name in any part of" the Declaration for the very reason which caused them to be stricken out of the Constitution after...

...States was never thought of by the patriots who framed the DecSECESSION 29 laration of Independence; the States are not even mentioned by name in any part of it." The Constitution begins, not with " We the States," nor with " We the people of the States," but with...

...Pinckney, speaking of the declaration of independence in the legislature of South Carolina, in 1788, says: "The several states are not even mentioned by name in any part, as if it was intended to impress the maxim on America that our freedom and independence arose from...

...Cotesworth Pinckney, so often used in previous debates : " The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought...of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed the Declaration." He placed " the authoritative point of investigation," how1 Register of Debates,...

...sovereignty and independence of the several States. . . . The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought...States are not even mentioned by name in any part. . . . Let us then consider all attempts to weaken this union, by maintaining that each State is separately...