Only Alternative

Excerpt from The Only Alternative: A Tract for the Times It is impossible to conceive of any language by which to express the transfer of power from one hand to another more explicit and definite than that by which the people of this country, in their primary assemblies, in the year 1787 divested themselves of certain sovereign prerogatives which they, at the same time, conferred on a government then organized by their will. No contract could possibly be made between man and man more binding in its terms than that by which South Carolina and Georgia, for a valuable consideration, agreed with New Hampshire and Massachusetts, that Congress should exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over all places purchased by consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same Shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dock yards, &c. If I buy a house of my neighbour and take possession of it under a valid deed, does any body suppose he may. At his pleasure, re-enter upon the premises and lawfully hold them? Would a deed or any other instrument transferring property, be worth the paper on which It is printed or written if such a principle were sanctioned? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.