Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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Page 362
... legislature of South Carolina set forth an " Exposi tion and Protest , " formally asserting the doctrines which were thenceforth known as " Nullification . " In this instrument they expressly claimed , in be . half of the States , " a ...
... legislature of South Carolina set forth an " Exposi tion and Protest , " formally asserting the doctrines which were thenceforth known as " Nullification . " In this instrument they expressly claimed , in be . half of the States , " a ...
Page 366
... legislatures to inter . fere , whenever , in their judgment , this government transcends its constitutional limits , and to arrest the operation of its laws . I understand him to maintain this right , as a right existing under the ...
... legislatures to inter . fere , whenever , in their judgment , this government transcends its constitutional limits , and to arrest the operation of its laws . I understand him to maintain this right , as a right existing under the ...
Page 367
... legislatures , or the creature of the people ? If the government of the United States be the agent of the State governments , then they may control it , provided they can agree in the manner of controlling it : if it be the agent of the ...
... legislatures , or the creature of the people ? If the government of the United States be the agent of the State governments , then they may control it , provided they can agree in the manner of controlling it : if it be the agent of the ...
Page 368
... legislatures , as political bodies , however sovereign , are yet not sovereign over the peo- ple . So far as the people have given power to the general gov- ernment , so far the grant is unquestionably good , and the government holds of ...
... legislatures , as political bodies , however sovereign , are yet not sovereign over the peo- ple . So far as the people have given power to the general gov- ernment , so far the grant is unquestionably good , and the government holds of ...
Page 369
... legislature . That would be very imposing : but what then ? Is the voice of one State conclusive ? It so happens that , at the very moment when South Carolina resolves that the tariff laws are unconsti- tutional , Pennsylvania and ...
... legislature . That would be very imposing : but what then ? Is the voice of one State conclusive ? It so happens that , at the very moment when South Carolina resolves that the tariff laws are unconsti- tutional , Pennsylvania and ...
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