State Documents on Federal Relations: The States and the United States, Wydanie 3

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Herman Vandenburg Ames
University of Pennsylvania, 1901
 

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Strona 90 - That all power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Strona 96 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Strona 127 - ... purporting to proceed from the Chief Justice, or any associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, for the purpose of arresting the execution of any of the criminal laws of this State.
Strona 102 - The government of the United States, then, though limited in its powers, is supreme; and its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land, ' ' anything in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Strona 126 - Resolved. That, the United States, in failing to procure the lands in controversy as early as the same could be done upon peaceable and reasonable terms, have palpably violated their contract with Georgia, and are now bound, at all hazards, and without regard to terms, to procure said lands for the use of Georgia. "Resolved, That the policy which has been pursued by the United States towards the Cherokee Indians, has not been in good faith towards Georgia ; and...
Strona 90 - Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to use their exertions to procure the adoption of the foregoing amendment.
Strona 90 - Pennsylvania, which is as follows, to wit. '•Congress shall make no law to erect or incorporate any bank or other monied institution' except within the District of Columbia...
Strona 97 - These two cases are evidence that in great questions of political rights and political powers, a decision of the Supreme Court of the. United States is not conclusive of the rights decided by it. If the United States stand justified in withholding a commission, when the Court adjudged it to be the party's right ; if the United States might, without reprehension, retain possession of the Yazoo lands...
Strona 100 - That this General Assembly do protest against the doctrine that the political rights of the separate States that compose the American Union, and their powers as sovereign States, may be settled and determined in the Supreme Court of the United States, so as to conclude and bind them in cases contrived between individuals, and where they are, no one of them, parties direct...
Strona 126 - Resolved, That all the lands appropriated and unappropriated, which lie within the conventional limits of Georgia, belong to her absolutely ; that the title is in her ; that the Indians are tenants at her will, and that...

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