The American Annual Registry for the Year 1830-31 or the Fifty-Fifth Year of American Independece (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1832 Excerpt: ...observance of them can alone secure its existence and the public happiness.--Madison. 'Resolved, That this Legislature doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact to which the states are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact: and in case of a deliberate and palpable and dangerous exercise ol other powers not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto have "the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties, appertaining to them.--Madison. 'Resolved, That the several states, comprising the United States ol America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government; but by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution of the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a Government for special purposes--delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that, whensoever the General Government assumes undelegated powers, its'acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force. That to this compact each state acceded as a state, and as an integral party. That the 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 between parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractio...