Note 3 — INTRODUCTION
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Referring to this speech of Calhoun and to Webster's reply, Mr. Lodge says:
"Whatever the people of the United States understood the Constitution to mean in 1789, there can be no question that a majority in 1833 regarded it as a fundamental law and not a compact,—an opinion which has now become universal. But it was quite another thing to argue that what the Constitution had come to mean was what it meant when it was adopted."
See also Pendleton's Life of Alexander H. Stephens, chap. XI.