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" This constitution defines the extent of the powers of the general government. If the general legislature should at any time overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, if they... "
Speeches and Forensic Arguments - Page 191
by Daniel Webster - 1848
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The Works of Daniel Webster..., Volume 3

Daniel Webster - 1881 - 578 pages
...as well as of the utmost purity and integrity of character. " This Constitution," says he, " defines the extent of the powers of the general government....should, at any time, overleap their limits, the judicial depaitment is a constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, if they make a law...
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The Southwestern Reporter, Volume 53

1900 - 1234 pages
...Connecticut Convention — Mr. Elsworth, a Member of the Federal Convention: "This constitution defines the extent of the powers of the general government. If the general legislature should at any time overlap its limits, the judicial department is a constitutional cbeck. If the United States go beyond...
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The Chicago Law Times, Volume 2

1888 - 448 pages
...Congress by declaring its acts void and unconstitutional whenever the occasion should arise. Me said: "If the general legislature should at any time overleap...the judicial department is a constitutional check. This Constitution defines the extent of the powers of the general government. If the United States...
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American Constitutional Law, Volume 1

John Innes Clark Hare - 1889 - 748 pages
...United States, but show a prophetic insight seldom evinced by any man. " This Constitution defines the extent of the powers of the General Government....constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their power, if they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize, it is void ; and the judicial...
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The Great Speeches and Orations of Daniel Webster: With an Essay on Daniel ...

Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - 1889 - 816 pages
...as well as of the utmost purity and integrity of character. " This Constitution," says he, " defines the extent of the powers of the general government....the judicial department is a constitutional check. К the United States go beyond their powers, if they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize,...
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The Constitutional History and Government of the United States

Judson Stuart Landon - 1889 - 796 pages
...article of the Constitution. In the Connecticut convention he said : — " This Constitution defines the extent of the powers of the general government. If the general government should at any time overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check....
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Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a ..., Volume 1

Joseph Story - 1891 - 858 pages
...(uftcrwurds Chief Justice of the United States) used the following language: "This Constitution defines tho extent of the powers of the general government. If...overleap their limits, the judicial department is the constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, — if they make a law which...
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Senator Benjamin H. Hill of Georgia: His Life, Speeches and Writings

1893 - 852 pages
...sagacity, as well as the utmost purity and integrity of character. " This Constitution," says he, "defines the extent of the powers of the general government....judicial department is a constitutional check. If the llnited States go beyond their powers, if they make a law which the Constitution does not authorize,...
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United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court at ..., Volume 157

United States. Supreme Court, John Chandler Bancroft Davis, Henry Putzel, Henry C. Lind, Frank D. Wagner - 1895 - 760 pages
...more. The other eight millions are raised upon articles of consumption. . . . This Constitution defines the extent of the powers of the general government....Constitution does not authorize, it is void; and the judicial power, the national judges, who, to secure their impartiality, are to be made independent,...
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Report of the ... Annual Meeting of the North Carolina Bar ..., Volume 17

North Carolina Bar Association - 1915 - 368 pages
...Oliver Ellsworth, in the Connecticut Convention on January 7, 1788, said: "This Constitution defines the extent of the powers of the general government....Constitution does not authorize, it is void; and the judicial power, the national judges, will declare it to be void. On the other hand, if the States go...
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