 the general government must cease to exist whenever it loses the power of protecting itself in the exercise of its constitutional powers." It can act only through its officers and agents, and they must act within the States. If, when thus acting, and...  Proceedings ... - Page 152by New York State Bar Association - 1902Full view - About this book
 | United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton - Law reports, digests, etc - 1816 - 614 pages
...greatest states in the union, on a point the most delicate and difficult to be adjusted. On the one hand, the general government must cease to exist whenever...itself in the exercise of its constitutional powers. Force, which acts upon the physical powers of man, or judicial process, which addresses itself to his... | |
 | Robert Walsh - Europe - 1817 - 514 pages
...greatest states in the union, on a point the most delicate and difficult to be adjusted. On the one hand, the general government must cease to exist, whenever...itself in the exercise of its constitutional powers. Force, •which acts upon the physical powers of man, or judicial process, which addresses itself to... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - United States - 1862 - 914 pages
...Constitution.''—-The unanimous opinion of the Court, pr. Marshall, CJ in McCullock vs. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 424. " The General Government must cease to exist whenever...protecting itself in the exercise of its constitutional powers."—Pr. Johnson, Jus. in Martin vs. Hunter, 1 Wheat. 363. " The Federal Govern-. ment may rely... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1855 - 702 pages
...greatest States in the Union, on a point the most delicate and difficult to be adjusted. On the one hand, the general government must cease to exist whenever it loses the power of protecting itself in the 586 SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES. Martin v. Hunter's Lessee. 1 W. exercise of its constitutional... | |
 | Law - 1890 - 542 pages
...the State." In deciding the case the court said : "As was said in Morton v. Hunter, 1 Wheat. 363, ' the general government must cease to exist whenever...the exercise of its constitutional powers,' it can act only through its officers and agents, and they must act within the State. If, when thus acting,... | |
 | Francis Wharton - Criminal procedure - 1880 - 904 pages
...conformity to the statute, and, upon being filed, the prosecution was removed to the federal court. ' The general government must cease to exist whenever...the exercise of its constitutional powers. It can act only through its officers and agents, and they must act within the States. If, when thus acting... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 654 pages
...general government's preserving its own existence. As was said in Martin v. Hunter (1 Wheat. 303), 'the general government must cease to exist whenever...the exercise of its constitutional powers.' It can net only through its officers and agents, and they must act within the States. If, when thus acting,... | |
 | John Codman Hurd - Constitutional law - 1881 - 596 pages
...general government's preserving its own existence. As was said in Martin v. Hunter (1 Wheat. 363), 'the general government must cease to exist whenever...the power of protecting itself in the exercise of ils constitutional powers.' It can act only through its officers and agents, and they must act within... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1882 - 796 pages
...slates in the Union, on a point the most delicate and difficult to be adIll justed. On the one hand, the general government must cease to exist whenever...itself in the exercise of its constitutional powers. Force, which acts ujxm the physical powers of man, or judicial process, which addresses itself to his... | |
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