...the "compact" theory of State sovereignties, and establishing the authority of the Constitution as a government proper, founded on the adoption of the...creating direct relations between itself and individuals ; that, as a necessary consequence, no State authority could dissolve these relations, that nothing...

...the " compact " theory of State sovereignties, and establishing the authority of the Constitution as a government proper, founded on the adoption of the...creating direct relations between itself and individuals ; that, as a necessary consequence, no State authority could dissolve these relations, that nothing...

...first Webster Doctrine is utterly false and groundless. His insistence that the Constitution is not a compact "between the people of the several States in their sovereign capacities," but is instead a Constitution "founded on the adoption of the people," is contradictory to plain historical...

...maintained by Webster, was "that the constitution of the United States is not a league, confederation or compact between the people of the several States in their sovereign capacity, but a government proper founded on the adoption of the people." In England, as Ireton said,...