 The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. It required not the affirmance,...  Niles' National Register - Page 671819Full view - About this book
 | Charles William Eliot - America - 1910 - 480 pages
...capacity, is implied in calling a Convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject...surrendered all their powers to the State sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers... | |
 | David Kemper Watson - Constitutional history - 1910 - 960 pages
...capacity is implied in calling the Convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject...surrendered all their powers to the State sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers... | |
 | Vermont Historical Society - Vermont - 1921 - 328 pages
...capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people; but the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final ; that the Constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties;... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1920 - 540 pages
...capacity, is implied in calling a Convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject...surrendered all their powers to the State sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1969 - 1778 pages
...capacity, is implied, in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject...surrendered all their powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - 1969 - 1080 pages
...implied, in calling a conv and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at liberty to accept or reject it ; and their act was final. It required not the affir and could not be negatived, by the state governments. The Constitution thus adopted, was of complete... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary - Administrative procedure - 1979 - 790 pages
...constitution. In McCullough r. The State of Maryland, 4 Wheat, p. 404, Mr. Chief Justice Marshall says : "It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But, their powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more to... | |
 | Sanford Levinson - Law - 1995 - 344 pages
...Maryland to the Declaration, the right of rebellion, and the adoption of the Constitution of 1787: "It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state sovereignties, and had nothing more to give. But, surely, the question whether they may resume and modify the powers... | |
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