Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    State Governments

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    state governments · the states · State governments · slave States · the States · the state governments · state and federal governments · state government · state legislature · state legislatures

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    The State Governments2 mentions

    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English)

    “The power of taxation by the states is not abridged by the grant of a similar power to the government of the union;
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    in the texts

    Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated19th Century · English

    The governments of the individual American states, described as holders of limited conventional powers rather than sovereignty.

    and a third in the state governments also, comprised in a mode of amending the federal constitution.
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    It can only be correct upon the ground, that neither the state nor federal governments received any powers except as trustees, or specified;
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    If the state governments are not sovereigns and only trustees, then their powers are restricted by the intention of their institution, and when this intention is ascertained, the restriction is also discovered.
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    The Unconstitutionality of Slavery19th Century · English

    The governments of the individual states, whose asserted power to establish or continue slavery is disputed.

    It is perfectly clear, in the first place, that the constitution of the United States did not, of itself, create or establish slavery as a new institution;
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    Suppose, for an illustration of this principle, that the constitution of the United States had, by implication, plainly taken it for granted that the State legislatures had power—derived from the State constitutions—to order arbitrarily that infant children, or that men without the charge of crime, should be maimed—deprived, for instance, of a hand, a foot, or an eye.
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    ” If the State governments could enslave citizens of the United States, the State constitutions, and not the constitution of the United States, would be the “supreme law of the land”—for no higher act of supremacy could be exercised by one government over another, than that of taking the citizens of the latter out of the protection of their government, and reducing them to slavery.
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