For objects of common defense and security, they intrusted to the General Government certain carefully defined functions, leaving all others as the undelegated rights of the separate independent sovereignties.
It leads directly and immediately to the establishment of absolute rule, for undelegated power is always unlimited and unrestrained.
This undelegated personal right is in each of us, or ought to be.
As the individual retains an undelegated right, so does the body social.
It was the undelegated right of one individual against that of another.
Our Constitution-makers could not have contemplated political irresponsibility; that the minority should be at the mercy of the majority; and that the residuary mass of undelegated powers was to be swallowed up by the delegated.
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.
There is no objection to calling the Constitution a compact for special purposes only, and declaring that the government under it has no right to assume not granted or undelegated powers, and that any such assumption is void and of no force.
The methods to arrest the evils of these alleged unconstitutional assumptions of undelegated powers were stated to be authorized by the Constitution itself.
There was no pretence that there was any tyrannical usurpation of undelegated authority by the United States, such as the Virginia resolutions referred to.
In the foreground, therefore, I take the position that those who resisted violations of the compact were the true friends, and those who maintained the usurpation of undelegated powers were the real enemies of the constitutional Union.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "undelegated" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
