Government of the Union
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the government of the union · the union · congress · the federal government · the general government · union sphere
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The federal government created by the states, holding only the limited powers delegated to it by the people and the states.
“The general government can have no temptation to absorb the local authorities left with the states.
Our second division of power, also unknown to the English system, is that between the governments of the states, and the government of the union.
Now, the state governments are not chartered by congress, and instead of a tacit acknowledgment of a supremacy in that body, or in any other department of the government of the union, the states have expressly asserted and retained their respective internal sovereignties.