M'Culloch v. Maryland · ¶23

. They are each sovereign, with respect to the objects committed to it, and neither sovereign with respect to the objects committed’ to the other. We cannot comprehend that train of reasoning which would maintain, that the extent, of power granted, by the people is to be ascertained, not by the nature and terms of the grant, but by its date. Some, State Constitutions were formed before, some since that of. the United States. We cannot believe that their relation to each other is in any degree dependent upon this circumstance... Their respective. powers must, we think, be - precisely the same as 'if. they had been -formed at the same time. Had, they been'formed at the same time, and had. the people conferred on the general government.tho powejr...contained. in the constitution, and on the States the whole, residuum of power, would it have been asserted that.the government of the, Union…

U. S. Reports, bound volume
U. S. Reports, volume 17, at 316 (Library of Congress) · transcription: Caselaw Access Project
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