...words by the Virginia convention when it ratified the Constitution, "the powers granted under this Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression;" and you acted on the conviction...

...Texas v. White, 7 Wallace, 700, 722, 725-6. Virginia's ratification of the Federal Constitution does "declare and make known that the powers granted under...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." Documentary History of the Constitution of the United States, p. 145. New York's ratification of the...

...invalid; but it is wholly irrelevant, both in form and in principle. The Virginia reservation reads: "The powers granted under the Constitution being derived...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression," but " the People of the United States " never decided that the powers granted by them under the Constitution...

...being prepared as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, — Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...injury or oppression, and that every power not granted 1 John P. Kennedy, Memoirs of the Life of William Win, 1849, Vol. I, p. 354. thereby remains with them,...

...constitutional convention. She declares : "We, the delegates of the peopie of Virginia . . . do in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever they shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." It is not necessary or practical to...

...invalid; but it is wholly irrelevant, both in form and in principle. The Virginia reservation reads : "The powers granted under the Constitution being derived...shall be perverted to their injury or oppression," but "the People of the United States" never decided that the powers granted by them under the Constitution...

...being prepared, as well as the most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every...

...explicit guarantee against consolidation and accompanied the demand with the following declaration : "That the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States, may be resumed by them, whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power not granted...

...ratify; and the form of ratification adopted was: "We the delegates of the people of Virginia . . . do in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia,...people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." A bill of rights was proposed...

...Ordinance ratifying the Constitution of the United States and from the Secession Ordinance of 1861 : — "that the powers granted under the constitution, being...resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted" etc. David Roberston's Debates . . . of the Convention of Virginia (Richmond, 1805). p. 469. "that...