The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CONTENTS. XXXI CHAPTER XI. OF THE INVESTITURE IS THE PEOPLE OF THE SEVERAL STATES AND OF THE UNITED STATES OF THAT SOVEREIGN POWER WHICH IS THE BASIS OF CONDITIONS OF FREEDOM OE OF BONDAGE. How the possession of sovereign power may be determined. SEC. PAGE 330. Change of sovereignty in the Revolntion, .... 394 331. Of the relation between freedom and law, . . . 394 332. The possession of sovereign power is not determined by law in the ordinary sense, ....... 395 333. Its possession is an historical question, . . . 396 334. The written constitntions of the United States presuppose an exist ing sovereignty, ....... 396 335. The facts indicating the possession of sovereignty may be differently understood, . . . . . . .398 History of the change which occurred in the Revolntion, 336. The word people in the constitutions designates only a portion of the inhabitants, . . . . . .398 337. How this people was discriminated at the time of the Revolution, 399 338. Sovereignty before that time had been held by the local govern ments, ........ 399 339. Change in the location of sovereign power which occurred in the Revolntion, . . . . . . .400 340. The people distingnished by their action in the Revolntion, . 401 341. National and local power were not simultaneously transferred, . 403 342. The people of the United States assumed a national sovereignty, 403 Of the manner in which sovereignty has been held by the people of the United States. 343. Their corporate existence as the people of distinct States continued of necessity, ....... 404 344. Bnt the principle of majority did not necessarily obtain in their na tional existence, . . . . . 405 345. The same integral nationality was manifested in the Revolntion, ..