Or, if any one is pleased to call any Government, whether State or Federal, sovereign; he should not forget that it is merely a delegated sovereignty. It is not original; it is derived. It is not inherent; it comes from without; and, instead of being supreme, it depends on a power greater than itself. It is divisible, and may be divided among different governments, or agents of the supreme power. On the contrary, the sovereign power of a State, or, in other words, the power of the people of a State, is inherent, original, supreme, indivisible, and inalienable.
