...perpetual law, was in all cases absolute. The language of Virginia was most explicit on this point. " The powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United Slates, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression."...

...v. White, 7 Wallace, 700, 722, 725-6. Virginia's ratification of the federal Constitution does — "declare and make known that the powers granted under...People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression": "Documentary History of the...

...power. In accepting the new Constitution with a similar reservation to that of New York, Virginia said: "That the powers granted under the Constitution, being...people of the United States may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression." The commissions of the Georgia...

...of question in Virginia. Our people in convention, by their act of ratification, declared and made known that the powers granted under the constitution...the United States, may be resumed by them whenever they shall be perverted to their injury and oppression. From what people were these powers derived?...

...of question in Virginia. Our people in convention, by their act of ratification, declared and made known that the powers granted under the constitution...the United States, may be resumed by them whenever they shall be perverted to their injury and oppression. granted could not be resumed until the oppressor...

...as to States rights. The resolution reported by that committee and adopted by the convention said : "The powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and at their...

...as to States rights. The resolution reported by that committee and adopted by the convention said : the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and at their...

...as to States rights. The resolution reported by that committee and adopted by the convention said: the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and at their...

...as to States rights. The resolution reported by that committee and adopted by the convention said : "The powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the people of the United States, be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and at their...

...its adoption. The form of ratification gave rise later to interminable discussion She had declared that 'the powers granted under the Constitution being...United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same may be perverted to their injury or oppression ; and that every power not granted thereby, remains...