 | HORACE GREELEY - 1865 - 670 pages
...Lovejoy (Eepublican) of Illinois, hereupon proposed this counterpart to the foregoing : " Whereas, The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and ready and faithful obedience to it a duty of all good and law-abiding citizens: Therefore, " Resolved,... | |
 | Edward McPherson - History - 1865 - 690 pages
...UNCONSTITUTIONAL SJATE LAWS. December 1 7, 1860. Mr. ADRAIN, of New Jersey, offered the following : " Whereas the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and its ready and faithful observance the duty of all good and law-abiding citizens, — "Resolved.... | |
 | Stella S. Coatsworth - Chicago (Ill.) - 1865 - 636 pages
...abolitionists, on the 17th of December, offered, and pressed to a vote, the following : " WHEREAS, the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and its ready and faithful obedience a duty of all good and law-abiding citizens; therefore, "Resolved,... | |
 | Political science - 1865 - 308 pages
...assaults upon its life. 149. The result will determine whether we are indeed one people ; — whether the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land; — whether our general government is in truth a de facto government, possessing the ability to defend... | |
 | Nevada. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1866 - 972 pages
...assume authority which legitimately belongs to the judicial power. We have already declared that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and if it is paramount, as we have already enunciated, if it exceeds in jurisdictional power the Constitution... | |
 | South Carolina. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 930 pages
...no such thing as treason at all. Mr. EC DE'LAEGE. I trust the section will be stricken out. If the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, which I claim it is, then there is no necessity for the insertion of this provision here. The Constitution... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1868 - 796 pages
...be compelled by the bond of Union to surrender the fugitive slaves; and proceeded by saying that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and every citizen of the United States, therefore, owes a double allegiance ; one to this Federal Government,... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature. House of Representatives - Legislative journals - 1869 - 928 pages
...session have elapsed. See art. 4, sec. 28, of the constitution of this State. The claim made that the constitution of the United States is •the supreme law of the land, and provides for its own amendment, does not affect the question, as nothing in that constitution prescribes... | |
 | Georgia. Supreme Court - Equity - 1870 - 858 pages
...made and submitted it to Congress for acceptance, on the terms and conditions expressed therein. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and the State of Georgia, when she adopted and ratified the Constitution of 1868, was as much bound... | |
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The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land. 
