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| | Joseph Story: Nature of the Constitution - Whether a Compact |
 | | Taylor in the Virginia legislature in 1798, it was resolved, "that this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare, that it views the powers of the federal government as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties." See Dane's Appendix, p 17. |
 | | The original resolution had the word "alone" after "states," which was struck out upon the motion of the original mover, it having been asserted in the debate, that the people were parties also, and by some of the speakers, that the people were exclusively parties. |
 | | Virginia, in the resolutions of her legislature on the tariff, in Feb. 1829, declared, "that there is no common arbiter to construe the constitution; being a federative compact between sovereign states, each state has a right to construe the compact for itself." 9 Dane's Abridg. |
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