Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government/Extract of 1798 Kentucky Resolutions

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Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal Government
by Walter Raleigh Houghton
3665197Conspectus of the History of Political Parties and the Federal GovernmentWalter Raleigh Houghton

Extract of Kentucky Resolutions, Nov. 10, 1798.

Resolved, That whenever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force; that to this compact each state acceded as a state, and is an integral party; that this government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself, since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.