In Senate of the United States. January 18, 1848. Read, and ordered to lie on the table, and be printed. Mr. Bagby submitted for consideration the following resolutions : Resolved, That the Constitution of the United States is a compact between co-equal sovereigns, by which they, and each of them, delegate certain specified powers to form a general government for the common benefit of all the parties to said compact, and such as might become parties to it ..

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