...discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would b= the measure of thair powers: That the several states who formed that instrument,...and independent, have the unquestionable right to jud re of the infraction : and, TAat a nuflifiratinn, by t.'ioxf sovereignties, of all unauthorized...

...into practice, by declaring that " the several States who " formed that instrument [the Constitution] being sov"ereign and independent, have the unquestionable " right to judge of the infraction : and that a nullifica" tion by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts '" done under color of that instrument,...

...November 14, 1799, gave the advocates of state rights the term demanded, in the sentence: " Resolved, That . . . the several states who formed that instrument...nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy.'' In later times the admirers of Madison...

...November 14, 1799, gave the advocates of state rights the term demanded, in the sentence: " JResolvjd, That . . . the several states who formed that instrument...nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized actu done under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." In later times the admirers of Madison...

...government is the exclusive judge of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of despotism, since the discretion of those who administer the government,...Constitution, would be the measure of their powers.' " Th-e last leading proposition of Webster was, that in no case of Federal usurpation, however enormous,...

...had omitted ; especially the famous declaration that, in cases of violations of the Constitution, " the several states who formed that instrument, being...nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts, under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." But the Kentuckv politicians, for all these...

...had omitted ; especially the famous declaration that, in cases of violations of the Constitution, " the several states who formed that instrument, being...nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts, under color of that instrument, is the rightful remedy." But the Kentucky politicians, for all these...

...for example, the Kentucky Resolutions of 1799, the original draft of which was by Jefferson — .... 'The several States who formed that instrument being...independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction, and that a nullification by these sovereignties of all unauthorized nets done under...

...exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing short of despotism, since the discretion of those who administer the government,...measure of their powers ; that the several states which framed that instrument, being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge...

...constitution, being sovereign, and, of course, independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of its infraction, and that a nullification by those sovereignties of all unauthorized acts, done under color of that instrumentj is the rightful remedy.* Mr. Madison, in a letter in April, 1787,...