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... constitutional fiction of himself being the commander - in - chief of our armies . These facts are notorious in the streets of Richmond . The Cabinet of President Davis has really no constitutional existence The Cabinet has many objects ...
... constitutional fiction of himself being the commander - in - chief of our armies . These facts are notorious in the streets of Richmond . The Cabinet of President Davis has really no constitutional existence The Cabinet has many objects ...
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... constitutional offices has been fulfilled by the Cabinet of President Davis , and history is forced to confess that the harmony of our govern- ment has been deranged by striking from it an important , valuable , and essential part . The ...
... constitutional offices has been fulfilled by the Cabinet of President Davis , and history is forced to confess that the harmony of our govern- ment has been deranged by striking from it an important , valuable , and essential part . The ...
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... Constitution - the bond of the Union - which defined the rights of the States and the limited powers of the General Government . The first President from the North , John Adams , asserted and essayed to put in practice the supremacy of ...
... Constitution - the bond of the Union - which defined the rights of the States and the limited powers of the General Government . The first President from the North , John Adams , asserted and essayed to put in practice the supremacy of ...
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... constitutional equality of the States in the Union . The only approach that the North was willing to make to this fundamental doctrine was to support a " com- promise , " by which slavery was to be tolerated in one part of the Missouri ...
... constitutional equality of the States in the Union . The only approach that the North was willing to make to this fundamental doctrine was to support a " com- promise , " by which slavery was to be tolerated in one part of the Missouri ...
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... constitutional equality . The appeals urged in behalf of the Union had the usual effect of reconciling the South to the sacrifice required of her , and embarrassed any thing like resistance on the part of her rep- resentatives in ...
... constitutional equality . The appeals urged in behalf of the Union had the usual effect of reconciling the South to the sacrifice required of her , and embarrassed any thing like resistance on the part of her rep- resentatives in ...
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