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To: nolu chan
The Union is an association of the people of republics; its preservation is calculated to depend on the preservation of those republics.

Simply wrong. The Framers didn't think that.

"The nullifiers it appears, endeavor to shelter themselves under a distinction between a delegation and a surrender of powers. But if the powers be attributes of sovereignty & nationality & the grant of them be perpetual, as is necessarily implied, where not otherwise expressed, sovereignty & nationality are effectually transferred by it, and the dispute about the name, is but a battle of words. The practical result is not indeed left to argument or inference. The words of the Constitution are explicit that the Constitution & laws of the U. S. shall be supreme over the Constitution and laws of the several States; supreme in their exposition and execution as well as in their authority.

Without a supremacy in those respects it would be like a scabbard in the hands of a soldier without a sword in it. The imagination itself is startled at the idea of twenty four independent expounders of a rule that cannot exist, but in a meaning and operation, the same for all."

-- James Madison, 1833

Walt

741 posted on 09/25/2003 2:55:21 AM PDT by WhiskeyPapa (Virtue is the uncontested prize.)
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To: WhiskeyPapa
[Wlat] "The nullifiers it appears...

Nullification is not under discussion. Your quote is irrelevant.

754 posted on 09/25/2003 12:39:59 PM PDT by nolu chan
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