 | Kentucky. Court of Appeals, James Hughes, Achilles Sneed, Martin D. Hardin, George Minos Bibb, Alexander Keith Marshall, William Littell, Thomas Bell Monroe, John James Marshall, James Greene Dana, Benjamin Monroe, James P. Metcalfe, Alvin Duvall, William Pope Duvall Bush, John Rodman, Edward Warren Hines, Charles Cyrus Turner, Thomas Lewis Edelen, Thomas Robert McBeath, Robert G. Higdon, T. M. Jones, Amos Hall Eblen - 1913
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all; its powers are... | |
 | 1819
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the -union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. This would seem to result necessarily from its nature. It is the government of all; its powers The... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1838
...Ihe universal assent of mankind, we mighl expect it would be this: that the Government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action . This would seem lo result necessarily from ils nalure. It is the Government of all; its powers are... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1836
...are to be exercised directly on them, anil lor their benefit. Ibid. 74. The government ol' the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action ; und its laws, when made in pursuance of the Constitution, form the supreme laws of the laud. Unil.... | |
 | George Washington Frost Mellen - 1841 - 440 páginas
...universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this, — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action." " But this question is not left to mere reasoning. The people have, in expressed terms, decided it... | |
 | Benson John Lossing - 1848 - 384 páginas
...period of years, fixes its construction.—Stuart vs. Laird, 1 Cranch, 099. The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of the constitution, form the supreme law of the land.—McCulloch... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1855
...it not been approved by them, it would have had no more authority than the sweeping of your floor. The Government of the United States, though limited in its powers, is supreme within the proper sphere of its action. The respective Governments of the United States and of the several... | |
 | United States. Congress. Senate - 1858
...by such considerations. The form of government varies only the extent of authority and the modes of conferring and exercising it, &c., but the obligation...objects committed to it," (4 Wh., 316) and its operation as conclusive and as little to be questioned with respect to these objects as the operation of a more... | |
 | benson j. losssing - 1859
...of years, fixes its construction. — Stuart vs. Laird, 1 Cranch, 299. The government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action, and its laws, when made in pursuance of -the Constitution, form the supreme law of the land. —McOulloch... | |
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If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this: that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action. 
