He concluded with the hope that the dangerous doctrine, that the representatives of the people have not the right to consult their discretion when about exercising powers delegated by the Constitution, would receive its death-blow.

Griswold replied in what by common consent was the strongest argument on the Federal side.

The call, at first view simple, had, he said, become a grave matter.

The gist of his objection to it was that the people in their Constitution had made the treaty power paramount to the legislative, and had deposited that power with the President and Senate.
Mr.Madison once more rose to the constitutional question.

He said that, if the passages of the Constitution be taken literally, they must clash.
The word _supreme_, as applied to treaties, meant as over the state Constitutions, and not over the Constitution and laws of the United States.