Secession And Constitutional Liberty in Which is Shown the Right of a Nation to
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The statement, as referring not to the respective States, but to all the States, as a unit, seems meaningless. As so stated, what bearing has "and in their sovereign capacity" on the re- sult deduced? It is a meaningless phrase, according to Mr. Madison's own principles, as applied to the States as a unit. It must be because they entered the Union as sovereign States (a matter which he says is only a matter of "historical curios- ity, having no bearing on the matter" ) ; it must be because they... retain that sovereignty, — else what meaning has it ? Yet this he denies both explicitly and by the principles he contends for. Its only force is as referring to separate and respective action, and consequently the results to be deduced from it apply to that action; i. E. , the results of their entering the compact as sovereigns, are results applying not to all, but to each respec- tively. If they have the right as a unit, it can only be because each possesses it in severalty. And, "recurring to fundamental principles, " of what practical use would he the statement of the right of a party to a bargain to annul that bargain, if it 262 SECESSION AND CONSTITUTIONAL LIBERTY was understood that such a right could only he exercised in concurrence with the other parties to the bargain — the parties committing the infraction complained of?
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