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The Daily Dispatch: January 21, 1861., [Electronic resource], "the law and the Testimony." (search)
itution, is considered as a sovereign body, independent of all others, and only to be bound by its own voluntary act." --Madison, Federalist, page 152 "In the establishment of the Constitution, the States should be regarded as distinct and indeer of the Convention advocated force. Hamilton, the strong government man, rejected and denounced resorting to force. Mr. Madison said "the more he reflected on the use of force, the more he doubted the practicability, the justice and the efficacy al Government claim no longer to act under or by authority of the compact by which it was brought into existence. Mr. Madison again said, "That any government for the United States formed on the supposed practicability of using force against thme of the proceedings of the Convention which framed the Constitution, and you have before you the views of Hamilton and Madison, who helped to frame it, as to the rights of the States, and the powers of the Federal Government as to coercion and for