...They emphasized the contractual nature of the federal government and declared that when it indulged in "a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted" by the contract, the states "have a right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress...

...resolutions do maintain that the powers of the national government result from a compact among the states and that, "in case of a deliberate, palpable, and...dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the compact," the states have the right and duty to "interpose." These inflammatory phrases led every state...

...Federal Government dangerously exceeded the powers given by the Constitution "The states who are the parties thereto have the right and are in duty bound...interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, for maintaining within their own respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining...

...Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government ... as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that in the case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other [ie, assumed] powers not granted...

...British constitution, p. 164. valid, than as .they .are authorised by the grants enumerated therein: and, that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by that compact, the states, who are -parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose,...

...intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no farther valid than they are authorised by the grants enumerated in that compact, and that...not granted by the said compact, the states who are the parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose for arresting the progress...

...appear on their face to contemplate measures far less drastic than those anticipated in Federalist 46: [I]n case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous...exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact [viz., the Constitution], the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound...

...government, could, in extreme cases, "interpose" in blocking unconstitutional acts of the federal regime; "in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers" not granted by the constitution (or "compact"), "the States, who are parties there to, have the right and are in duty...

...states "limited by the plain sense and intention" of the Constitution, "and in case of a deliberate and palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers not...interpose for arresting the progress of the evil." Nowhere did they use the word nullification. The resolutions simply proposed that the convention do...

...the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact;—and that in 23 case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not...