 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity.' The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting...adopted, was of complete obligation and bound the state sovereignties. "'It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state... | |
 | Charles Henry Butler - Constitutional law - 1902 - 704 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity.' 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 wore at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. " ' It required not the affirmance,... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting...adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the State... | |
 | Van Vechten Veeder - Forensic orations - 1903 - 656 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting...their act was final. It required not the affirmance of, and could not be negatived by, the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 832 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. Bat the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. It required... | |
 | John Marshall - Constitutional law - 1903 - 828 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the States in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. ]<ut the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it, and their act was final. It required... | |
 | John Forrest Dillon - Judges - 1903 - 600 pages
...Nation was answerable to the whole people and not to the States. In M'Culloch v. Maryland he says: "The Constitution when thus adopted was of complete obligation, and bound the State sovereignties. To the formation of a league, such as was the confederation, the State sovereignties... | |
 | Westel Woodbury Willoughby - Constitutional history - 1904 - 350 pages
...Constitution derives its whole authority. . . . The assent of the States, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting...adopted was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties." In 1816 was decided by the Supreme Court of the United States the case of Martin v.... | |
 | John Marshall - Political Science - 1905 - 518 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting...adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties. It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 618 pages
...liberty to themselves and to their posterity." The assent of the states in their sovereign capacity is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting...adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties. It has been said that the people had already surrendered all their powers to the state... | |
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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,... 
