...delegated, they have the right, in the last resort, to use the language of the Virginia resolutions, "to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil,...authorities, rights, and liberties, appertaining to them." 5. This right of interposition, thus solemnly asserted by the State of Virginia, be it called what...

...limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, and they are no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." This declaration is an able, ingenious, and fascinating definition of the right or power which it upholds....

...that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the same compact, the states who are parties thereto have the...respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties pertaining to them."] Mr. WEBSTER resumed : — I am quite aware, Mr. President, of the existence of...

...powers, not granted by the said compact, the States who are parties thereto have the right, and are hi duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." Mr. Webster resumed : — I am quite aware, Mr. President, of the existence of the resolution which...

...the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose to arrest the progress of the evil, and to maintain within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties, appertaining to them," she meant no more than to proclaim the right to protest and to remonstrate. To suppose that, in putting...

...understood. he would state that his proposition was in the words of the Virginia resolution; and read it — "That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily...authorities, rights, and liberties, appertaining to them." Thus were the propositions stated, and argued — each speaker taking his own proposition for his text...

...limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." In addition to the above resolution, the General Assembly of Virginia " appealed to the other states,...

...point in controversy. "The resolutions, having taken this view of the federal compact, proceed to infer 'that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.'" " It appears to your committee to be a plain principle, founded in common sense, illustrated by common...

...that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by th« said compact, the states who are parties thereto have...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." Mr. Webster resumed : I am quite aware, Mr. President, of the existence of the resolution which the...

...palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are the parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound,...authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them." The right and duty of interposition is certainly here claimed for the States, in case of a " deliberate,...