...compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority to decide, in the last resort, whether...made by them be violated; and, consequently, that they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to...

...Compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether...sufficient magnitude to require their interposition. "It does not follow, that because the States as Sovereign parties to their Constitutional Compact,...

...compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows, of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether...require their interposition.' "If this right does not exist in the several States, then it is clear that the discretion of Congress, and not the Constitution,...

...compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows, of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether...sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.' assumed to bind the states, not only in cases made Federal, but in all cases whatsoever; which would...

...compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether...made by them be violated, and consequently that, as tie parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient...

...compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity that there can be no tribunal above their authority to decide, in the last resort, whether...made by them be violated; and, consequently, that as parties to it, they must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient...

...constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity," Madison reasoned, "there can be no tribunal, above their authority, to decide, in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated." Thus he concluded that the states "must themselves decide, in the last resort, such questions as may...

...Cranch 137, 177 (1803). See text supra, at note 15. 55. Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheaton 1, 197 (1824). compact made by them be violated; and consequently,...sufficient magnitude to require their interposition." James Madison, "Report on the Virginia Resolutions," id., pp. 546, 548. 57. Federalist 44, in Cooke,...

...in "their sovereign capacity" as the original parties to the federal compact, could never renounce their authority "to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated."5 Whatever the fair meaning of these remarks, they and the original resolutions they defended...

...essential nature of compacts," it followed that there can be no tribunal above the authority of the states "to decide in the last resort whether the compact made by them be violated." To grant "such exclusive right to the General Government ... is to convert it in fact into a general...