Speech on Federal Relations and the Question of Secession: Delivered in the House of Representatives, Jan. 20, 1860T. McGill, 1860 - 16 страница |
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Страница 7 - ... in case of a deliberate, 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, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them...
Страница 7 - ... valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact, and that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the !States who are parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose...
Страница 7 - That the good people of this commonwealth, having ever felt, and continuing to feel the most sincere affection for their brethren of the other States ; the truest anxiety for establishing and perpetuating the Union of all ; and the most scrupulous fidelity to that Constitution, -which is the pledge of mutual friendship, and the instrument of mutual happiness...
Страница 7 - The Constitution, not relying on any of the preceding modifications for its safe and successful operation, has expressly declared, on the one hand, 1. "That the Constitution, and the laws made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land. 2. That the judges of every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution and laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Страница 7 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Страница 7 - Being thus derived from the same source as the constitutions of the States, it has within each State the same authority as the constitution of the State, and is as much a constitution in the strict sense of the term, within its prescribed sphere, as the constitutions of the States are within their respective spheres; but with this obvious...
Страница 7 - States, shall be the supreme law of the land ; 2, that the judges of every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the Constitution and laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding...
Страница 7 - With respect to our State and Federal Governments, I do not think their relations are correctly understood by foreigners. They suppose the former are subordinate to the latter. This is not the case. They are coordinate departments of one simple and integral whole. But you may ask, if the two departments...
Страница 7 - States in their individual capacities. 1. It was formed, not by the governments of the component States, as the federal government for which it was substituted was formed. Nor was it formed by a majority of the people of the United States, as a single community in the manner of a consolidated government. It was formed by the States, that is, by the people in each of the States, acting in their highest sovereign capacity; and formed consequently by the same authority which formed the State Constitutions.
Страница 7 - From these it will be seen that the characteristic peculiarities of the Constitution are: 1. The mode of its formation. 2. The division of the supreme powers of government between the States in their united capacity, and the States in their individual capacities.