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1513. CONGRESS, The Constitution and.—

Congress * * * [is] not a party but
merely the creature of the [Federal] compact,
and [is] subject, as to its assumptions of
power, to the final judgment of those by
whom, and for whose use, itself and its powers
were all created and modified.—
Kentucky Resolutions. Washington ed. ix, 469. Ford ed., vii, 302.
(1798)