The government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers.
Thomas Jefferson (2010). “The Works of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence 1793-1798”, p.461, Cosimo, Inc.
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