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from them? Has it any power or position of its own, any but that which each delegated to it? Is it anything but the creature of the States? Has it any separate existence? We are told about the heptarchy, about the cases of Ireland and of Scotland. Well — even these cases are very open to argument; and it is very certain that if the Imperial Legislature violated any of the articles of either Union, or by partial laws confiscated the property of one nation, the right of secession would lawfully and constitutionally revive. But Ireland and Scotland have no legislatures of their own; are not sovereign States; did not retain by articles of union any separate sovereignty. Life and property are secured in the several American States by the separate Government and Legislature of each, not by the Union. A citizen of one State is not that of another, cannot vote in another. Every separate State has its own code of laws, its own revenues, its own debts, its own property. No two Stat