Assertion: u.s.'s government | /r/CapableOf | assume undelegated powers
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text: , they constituted a general government for special purposes [and] delegated to that government certain definite powers.and.whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force.
text: Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force: