...prove that the Constitution was a compact to which there were no parties but sovereign States, and that, as in all other compacts among parties having...each party has an equal right to judge for itself of all infractions. We have thus seen Mr. Madison in 1787 and in 1799 directly opposed. If there be...

...constitution, the measure of its powers; hut that, as in all other case» of compact among parlies, having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as the mode and measure of redress." In the Kentucky resolutions of '98, it is even more explicitly declared,...

...there were no parlies but sovereign States, and that, as in all other compacts among parties having DO common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself of all infractions. We have thus seen Mr. Madison in 1787 and in 1799 directly opposed. If there be...

...of its powers; hut that, яя in all other cases of compact, having no common judge, each party lias an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and manner of redress." This subject was re-examined in 1790, and the resolutions previously adopted were...

...and,not the Constitution, the measure of its powers , but that, as in all other cases of compact between parties having no common judge, each party has an...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress. — Jefferson.' This resolution passed in the house by a majority of 83 to 31. ' 5. Resolved, That...

...that each State, being an integral party to the compact. ot which there was no common judge, had a right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redrcss. After demonstrating the unconstitutionality of the Alien and Sedition laws, on a variety of...

...made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its power; but that, as in all cases of compacts among parties having no common judge, each...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress." "It appears to your committee to be a plain principle, founded in common sense, illustrated by common...

...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...infractions as of the mode and measure of redress. II. Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States having delegated to Congress a power to punish...

...judge of the powers delegated to itself, &c. ; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parlies having no common judge, each party has an equal right...infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress." North American Review, Oct. 1830, p. 501. The Kentucky resolutions of 1799 go further, and assert,...

...not the constitution the measure of its powers," and further, " that in all cases of compact between parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of the operation, as of the mode and measure of redress." The first proposition must be understood td...