 ... would have been that, as between the Union and the State, ultimate allegiance was due to the State. A recurrence to the elementary principles of human nature tells us that this would have been so, and could have been no otherwise. We have all heard...  A HISTORY OF MASSACHUSETTS IN THE CIVIL WAR - Page 22by WILLIAM SCHOULER - 1868Full view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1859 - 690 pages
...occurrence when one reports what another said at some former period, as, " Mr. Webster asserted that the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land.' " But these inadvertencies are so few and small as to be hardly worth the naming. The style is characterized... | |
 | Massachusetts Historical Society - Massachusetts - 1903 - 596 pages
...and could have been no otherwise. We have all heard of a famous, much-quoted remark of Mr. Gladstone to the effect that the Constitution of the United States was " the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purwas suppradding a new and untried... | |
 | California. Constitutional Convention - California - 1878 - 524 pages
...evils of cheap labor, and the State has the power now to remedy these evils. It has been said here that the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land, and the treaties and laws made in pursuance thereof were the supreme law, anything in the Constitution... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1895 - 730 pages
...manner therein indicated, or by a revolution. This fact, coupled with the subsequent declaration that the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land,3 establish that construction which has l>een settled by the logic of subsequent events. Attempts... | |
 | Roger Foster - Constitutional history - 1896 - 734 pages
...manner therein indicated, or by a revolution. This fact, coupled with the subsequent declaration that the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land. 3 establish that construction which has been settled by the logic of subsequent events. Attempts have... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 750 pages
...unanimous adoption into the constitution of the doctrine of paramount allegiance.1 Did not all believe that the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land ? Granting the Constitution to be a compact, it was "a bargain that nobody has a right to secede from."2... | |
 | Francis Newton Thorpe - Constitutional history - 1901 - 748 pages
...unanimous adoption into the constitution of the doctrine of paramount allegiance.1 Did not all believe that the Constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land ? Granting the Constitution to be a compact, it was "a bargain that nobody has a right to secede from."2... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Constitutional law - 1903 - 56 pages
...and could have been no otherwise. We have all heard of a famous, much-quoted remark of Mr. Gladstone to the effect that the Constitution of the United States was " the most wonderful work ever struck off at a given time by the brain and purpose of man." This may or may... | |
 | State Bar Association of North Dakota - Bar associations - 1905 - 154 pages
...department of government by another, and save the great structure from destruction, by declaring that the constitution of the United States was the supreme law of the land, in fact as well as in name, pictured in his thought an ideal nation, which has since become the real... | |
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