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" It cannot be doubted, and is not denied, that, before the formation of the constitution, each State was an independent sovereignty, possessing all the rights and powers appertaining to independent nations; nor can it be denied that, after the constitution... "
Personnel of the Convention of 1861 - Page 2
by John Gilchrist McCormick - 1900 - 144 pages
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Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50

United States. Congress - Law - 1830 - 692 pages
...independent nations; nor can it be denied that, after the constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent, as to all powers not expressly delegated to the Federal Government. This would have been the case, even if no positive provision to that effect had been inserted in that...
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History of the Federal Government for Fifty Years : from March, 1789 to ...

Alden Bradford - Canada History War of 1812 - 1840 - 494 pages
...independent nations; nor can it be denied, that, after the Constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent, as to all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government. This would have been the case even if no positive provision to that effect had been inserted in that...
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History of the Federal Government, for Fifty Years: From March, 1789 to ...

Alden Bradford - History - 1840 - 502 pages
...independent nations; nor can it be denied, that, after the Constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent, as to all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government. This would have been the case even if no positive provision to that elfect had been inserted in that...
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Formation of the Union, 1750-1829

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1892 - 324 pages
...appertaining to independent nations. . . . After the Constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent as to all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government. . . . The true nature of the Federal Constitution, therefore, is ... a compact to which the States...
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American History Leaflets: Colonial and Constitutional

Albert Bushnell Hart, Edward Channing - United States - 1895 - 484 pages
...independent nations ; nor can it/ be denied that, after the constitution was formed, they re-j mained equally sovereign and independent, as to all powers not expressly delegated to the Federal Government. This would have been the case, even if no positive provision to that effect had been inserted in that...
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Discovery of America

Jacob Abbott - Indians of North America - 1860 - 312 pages
...independent nations; nor can it be denied that, after the constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent, as to all powers not expressly delegated to the Federal Government. This would have been the case, even if no positive provision to that effect had been inserted in that...
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Constitutional Doctrines of Webster, Hayne and Calhoun

Daniel Webster - United States - 1897 - 82 pages
...independent nations ; nor can it be denied that, after the constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent, as to all powers not expressly delegated to the Federal Government. This would have been the case, even if no positive provision to that effect had been inserted in that...
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Formation of the Union, 1750-1829

Albert Bushnell Hart - United States - 1897 - 322 pages
...appertaining to independent nations. . . . After the Constitution was formed, they remained equally sovereign and independent as to all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government. . . . The true nature of the Federal Constitution, therefore, is ... a compact to which the States...
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A Grammar School History of the United States

Lida A. Field - United States - 1897 - 476 pages
...compact of sovereign states which had entered it of their own accord, and that each state continued to be independent as to all powers not expressly delegated to the federal government. They believed that Congress should be bound strictly by the Constitution, and considered the assumption...
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James Sprunt Studies in History and Political Science, Volumes 2-8

History - 1900 - 650 pages
...Confederation. The Federal Constitution had been ratified two years previous to the time of his election, but it had not yet secured the confidence of the people,...expressly delegated to the Federal government." From thes^ two constructions of the constitution arose the greater number of the more important questions...
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