 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - Constitutional history - 1840 - 702 pages
...better to prevent the passage of an improper law, than to declare it void when passed. Mr. RUTLEDGE. If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...the Constitution. Will any State ever agree to be boun4 hand and foot in this manner ? It is worse than making mere corporations of them, whose by-laws... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - Judges - 1854 - 554 pages
...Union," Rutledge warmly opposed the proposition. "This alone, if nothing else," he exclaimed, " will damn, and ought to damn the Constitution. Will any...of them, whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle."f And so, too, when the same gentleman proposed an amendment, " that no act of the Legislature,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 pages
...it were more than once equally divided. Rutledge viewed the proposition with indignation, and thus denounced it. ' If nothing else, this alone would...bound hand and foot in this manner? It is worse than milking mere corporations of them, whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle.' He was equally... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - Constitutional history - 1862 - 108 pages
...legislature, with the general interests and harmony of the Union." Mr. Rutledge, from the same State, said : " If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...ever agree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ?" The motion was withdrawn. The extracts which I have given from the constitutional debates show that... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional history - 1863 - 680 pages
...better to prevent the passage of an improper law, than to declare it void, when passed. Mr. RUTLEDGE. If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle. Mr. ELLSWORTH observed, that the power contended for would require, either that all laws of the state... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - Constitutional history - 1863 - 120 pages
...legislature, with the general interests and harmony of the Union." Mr. Kutledge, from the same State, said : " If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...ever agree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ?" The motion was withdrawn. The extracts which I have given from the constitutional debates show that... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 666 pages
...it were more than once equally divided. Rutledge viewed the proposition with indignation, and thus denounced it. ' If nothing else, this alone would...whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle.' He was equally opposed to investing the National Government with power to erect new States, within,... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - Constitutional history - 1875 - 278 pages
...and harmony of the Union, provided that two-thirds of the members of each house assent to the same." "If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle." Madison papers 468. If the fathers of the constitution had lived until now, what would they think of... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - Constitutional law - 1876 - 678 pages
...better to prevent the passage of an improper law, than to declare it void, when passed. Mr. RUTLEDGE. If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought to damn, the Constitution. Will any state ever ayree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ? It is worse than making mere corporations of them,... | |
| |
If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought to damn, the Constitution. Will any State ever agree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ? It is worse than making mere corporations of them, whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle. 
