Excerpt from Speech of the Hon. William C. Rives, of Virginia, on the Resolution for the Annexation of Texas It was important to know in what sense this term treaty was understood by the people when they were called on to ratify the treaty - making power, as laid down in the new Constitution. And on this point it gave him great pleasure to turn the attention of the Senate to a brief passage of the Federalist, which not only furnished a definition of a treaty, but went to explain the whole nature; philosophy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.