...this General Assembly. Mr. O Brien presented the following preamble and resolutions : WHEREAS, The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and at once the foundation and limitation of Federal authority; and whereas, in that instrument it...

...assaults upon its life. 149. The result will determine whether we are indeed one people ; — whether the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land; — whether our general government is in truth a de facto government, possessing the ability to defend...

...UNCONSTITUTIONAL SJATE LAWS. December 1 7, 1860. Mr. ADRAIN, of New Jersey, offered the following : " Whereas the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and its ready and faithful observance the duty of all good and law-abiding citizens, — "Resolved....

...Lovejoy (Eepublican) of Illinois, hereupon proposed this counterpart to the foregoing : " Whereas, The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and ready and faithful obedience to it a duty of all good and law-abiding citizens: Therefore, " Resolved,...

...assume authority which legitimately belongs to the judicial power. We have already declared that the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and if it is paramount, as we have already enunciated, if it exceeds in jurisdictional power the Constitution...

...which cannot be conceived. Their prayers go up, day and night, that this Union may be broken — that the free States of the North may no longer be compelled...saying that the Constitution of the United States is the supremo law of the land, and every citizen of the United States, therefore, owes a double allegiance...

...which cannot be conceived. Their prayers go up, day and night, that this Union may be broken — that the free States of the North may no longer be compelled...supreme law of the land, and every citizen of the United States, therefore, owes a double allegiance ; one to this Federal Government, and another to the State...

...no such thing as treason at all. Mr. EC DE'LAEGE. I trust the section will be stricken out. If the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, which I claim it is, then there is no necessity for the insertion of this provision here. The Constitution...

...session have elapsed. See art. 4, sec. 28, of the constitution of this State. The claim made that the constitution of the United States is •the supreme law of the land, and provides for its own amendment, does not affect the question, as nothing in that constitution prescribes...

...made and submitted it to Congress for acceptance, on the terms and conditions expressed therein. The Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land, and the State of Georgia, when she adopted and ratified the Constitution of 1868, was as much bound...