...title of a Constitution for the United States. . .that to this compact each State acceded as a State., .that the government created by this compact was not...of the extent of the powers delegated to itself..." 47 Prom Draft Declaration and Protest of the Commonwealth of Virginia, on the Principles of the Constitution...

...unnecessarily violent, but still declared, with all the emphasis needed, that the national government was not "the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the...since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers," but that each party had an equal right to judge for itself...

...to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party ; that the Government created...compact was not made the exclusive or final judge ol the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not...

...unauthoritative, void, and of no force." The national government, even if all its branches agree, is not "the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself." With no common judge between federal and states' governments, "each party has an equal right to judge...

...unconstitutional acts are "unauthoritative, void, and of no force," and that the federal government "was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself. " As authors of the Constitution, the states had a preeminent "right to judge for itself" whether the...

...the national government as the creature of the constitution meant that government could not serve as "the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself." Giving that ultimate authority to government made "its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure...

...government assumed undelegated powers, its acts were unauthoritative and void ; and that it had not been made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it. Five weeks later the Virginia legislature passed similar but more guarded resolutions, omitting,...

...to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party: that the government created...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 powers having...