Aim Quote by Alexander Hamilton

If the States were not left to leave the Union when their rights were interfered with, the government would have been National, but the…

— Daniel Webster

“Owing its ratification to the law of a State, it has been contended that the same authority might repeal the law by which it…

— Alexander Hamilton

The proposed Constitution, so far from implying an abolition of the State governments, makes them constituent parts of the national sovereignty, by allowing them…

— Alexander Hamilton

The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.

— Anonymous

“Our forefathers bequeathed to us far more than a republic. They willed to us an enduring Constitution that incorporates more thought and brainpower than…

— James D. Best

If the Constitution is a compact, then the States have a right to secede.

— Joseph Story

It depends on the state itself to retain or abolish the principle of representation, because it depends on itself whether it will continue a…

— William Rawle

“the Southern States rebelled against the usurpation of their rights under the Constitution as sovereign states. It’s critical to remember that, until that time,…

— Joseph Befumo

The States then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no…

— James Madison

Our government is an agency of delegated and strictly limited powers. Its founders did not look to its preservation by force; but the chain…

— Jefferson Davis

It appears to me, then, little short of a miracle, that the Delegates from so many different States . . . should unite in…

— George Washington

When any one State in the American Union refuses obedience to the Confederation by which they have bound themselves, the rest have a natural…

— Thomas Jefferson