| Hannis Taylor - Constitutional history - 1911 - 738 pages
...answer in which he said : " My opinion is, that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be not decided on under the form of the Constitution...Constitution requires an adoption in toto and forever." l Under the pressure of that opinion from Madison it was resolved that New York, following in the footsteps... | |
| American Historical Association - Electronic journals - 1913 - 772 pages
...confidence. Mr. Madison says: " My opinion is that a reservation of a right to withdraw if amendments be not decided on under the form of the constitution...member of the new Union, and consequently that she would not be received on that plan. Compacts must be reciprocal; this principle would not in such a... | |
| Julian Alvin Carroll Chandler - Constitutional history - 1924 - 424 pages
...opinion," Mr. Madison replied to Hamilton, "is that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be not decided on under the form of the Constitution...a conditional ratification; that it does not make N. York a member of the New Union, and consequently that she could not be received on that plan." 5... | |
| William Wilson Cook - Aliens - 1927 - 424 pages
...pointed out that if they accepted the Constitution at all, it was accepted forever. Hamilton told them, "The constitution requires an adoption in toto and...forever. It has been so adopted by the other states." 2 The Kentucky Resolutions and the Hartford Convention were an afterthought. Calhoun many years later... | |
| Horace Greeley - Slavery - 1864 - 696 pages
...of the nature you describe. My opinion is, that a reservation of a right to withdraw, if amendments be not decided on under the form of the Constitution...consequently, that she could not be received on that plan. Compacts must be reciprocal— this principle would not, in such a case, be preserved. The Constitution... | |
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