'The sovereignty of the States' is the language of the Confederacy, and not the language of the Constitution. The latter contains the emphatic words - This Constitution and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made or which shall be made under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.

The only assurance that I can now give of the future is reference to the past. The course which I have taken in the past in connection with this rebellion must…

Certainly the Government of the United States is a limited government, and so is every State government a limited government. With us this idea of limitation s…

I must be permitted to say that I have been almost overwhelmed by the announcement of the sad event which has so recently occurred. I feel incompetent to perfo…

I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it.

I consider the foundation of the Constitution as laid on this ground: That 'all powers not delegated to the United States, by the Constitution, nor prohibited …

Outside of the Constitution we have no legal authority more than private citizens, and within it we have only so much as that instrument gives us. This broad p…