Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 3, Part 3 |
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Page cx - The general government, and the States, although both exist within the same territorial limits, are separate and distinct sovereignties, acting separately and independently of each other, within their respective spheres. The former in its appropriate sphere is supreme; but the States within the limits of their powers not granted, or, in the language of the Tenth Amendment, "reserved," are as independent of the general government as that government within its sphere is independent of the States.
Page xx - An act [to amend an act entitled an act] to aid in the construction of a railroad and telegraph line from the Missouri River to the Pacific Ocean, and to secure to the government the use of the same for postal, military, and other purposes, approved July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-two," approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Page xxxv - It simply furnishes an additional guaranty against any encroachment by the states upon the fundamental rights which belong to every citizen as a member of society.
Page cx - The powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the States respectively, or, to the people." The government of the United States, therefore, can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the Constitution, and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Page cx - Such being the separate and independent condition of the States in our complex system, as recognized by the Constitution, and the existence of which is so indispensable, that, without them, the general government itself would disappear from the family of nations, it would seem to follow...
Page xxxv - The government of the United States is one of delegated powers alone. Its authority is defined and limited by the Constitution. All powers not granted to it by that instrument are reserved to the States or the people. No rights can be acquired under the constitution or laws of the United States, except such as the government of the United States has the authority to grant or secure. All that cannot be so granted or secured are left under the protection of the States.
Page xxxv - The rights of life and personal liberty are natural rights of man. " To secure these rights," says the Declaration of Independence, " governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
Page xxxv - If citizens of one race having certain qualifications are permitted by law to vote, those of another having the same qualifications must be. Previous to this amendment there was no constitutional guaranty against this discrimination ; now there is.
Page cx - It is a familiar rule of construction of the constitution of the union, that the sovereign powers vested In the state governments by their respective constitutions remain unaltered and unimpaired, except so far as they were granted to the government of the United States.
Page 260 - On appeal to the Supreme Court the judgment of the Circuit Court was...