It is that the States are united in a general government by a compact, called a constitution, for special purposes, and when the government assumes undelegated powers its acts are null and void.
It gives to a general government it establishes, all the powers necessary for the existence and maintenance of a nation.
He stated the plan he should prefer: a general government, with an executive and a senate for life or good behavior, the general government to have the appointment of the governors of each State, who should have a veto over the State laws.
In 1757, Commissioners from seven colonies met at Albany, resolved upon a Union and proposed a plan of general government.
Now if these powers are conferred upon thegeneral government by the common consent of all the States of the Union, or more especially by all the people of all the States, can any one State exercise any of those reserved powers?
And now, to understand this matter, what were those particular powers and rights which were thus abstracted from the separate State sovereignties and vested in a general government?
Mr Webster proceeded to show that the people of the United States have not chosen the State authorities as their guardians against encroachments from the general government.
They found no means but in a general government; and they recommended a convention to accomplish that purpose.
One of two things is true; either the laws of the Union are beyond the discretion and beyond the control of the States; or else we have no constitution of general government, and are thrust back again to the days of the Confederation.
Prior to the elevation of Mr. Van Buren to the presidency, he had been long in public life, and had been honored with several offices in his native state and under the general government.
The Connecticut planters held courts of their own, though they were settled under the general government of the Massachusetts.
And it raises to supreme command four-and-twenty distinct powers, each professing to be under a general government, and yet each setting its laws at defiance at pleasure.
The States will never feel a sufficient confidence in a general Government to give it a negative on their laws.
As to the latter, their rights cannot be the object of a general government.
The only necessary check in a general government ought to be a restraint to prevent its absorbing the powers of the state governments.
If the Anti-Federal party had been accused of cherishing morbid and impracticable ideas on the subject of a general government, the charge would have come nearer the truth.
He said in the Convention: "If they (the State governments) are extinguished, he was persuaded that great economy might be obtained by substituting a general government.
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