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... secession ordinance purports " to repeal the ordinance of the 23d May , 1788 , by which the constitution of the United States was ratified by the people of South Carolina . It was intended of course by calling the act of ratification an ...
... secession ordinance purports " to repeal the ordinance of the 23d May , 1788 , by which the constitution of the United States was ratified by the people of South Carolina . It was intended of course by calling the act of ratification an ...
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... secession rests upon the doctrine that the Union is a compact between independent states , from which any one of them may withdraw at pleasure in virtue of its sovereignty . This imaginary right has been the subject of discussion for ...
... secession rests upon the doctrine that the Union is a compact between independent states , from which any one of them may withdraw at pleasure in virtue of its sovereignty . This imaginary right has been the subject of discussion for ...
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... secession is not reserved in terms , it must be considered as implied in the general reservation to the states and to the people , of all the powers not granted to Congress nor prohibited to the states . This extraordinary assumption ...
... secession is not reserved in terms , it must be considered as implied in the general reservation to the states and to the people , of all the powers not granted to Congress nor prohibited to the states . This extraordinary assumption ...
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... secession school . Mr. Davis , in his message of the 29th of April , having called the old confed- eration a " close alliance , " says : " Under this contract of alliance the war of the revolution was successfully waged , and resulted ...
... secession school . Mr. Davis , in his message of the 29th of April , having called the old confed- eration a " close alliance , " says : " Under this contract of alliance the war of the revolution was successfully waged , and resulted ...
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... secession school on the fact , that in a project for amending the Ar- ticles of Confederation brought forward by judge Paterson in the federal convention , it was proposed to clothe the government with this power , and the proposal was ...
... secession school on the fact , that in a project for amending the Ar- ticles of Confederation brought forward by judge Paterson in the federal convention , it was proposed to clothe the government with this power , and the proposal was ...
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Page 6 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Page 5 - AN ORDINANCE to dissolve the Union between the State of South Carolina and other States united with her under the compact entitled 'The Constitution of the United States of America.' "We, the People of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, "That the Ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the...
Page 18 - Virginia declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution being derived from the People of the United States may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 5 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Page 37 - Its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth. that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. This, our new government, is the first, in the history of the world, based upon this great physical, philosophical, and moral truth.
Page 8 - The Constitution was ordained and established by the people of the United States for themselves, for their own government, and not for the government of the individual States. Each State established a Constitution for itself, and in that Constitution provided such limitations and restrictions on the powers of its particular government as its judgment dictated. The people of the United States...
Page 31 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 14 - The Constitution and laws of the United States are the supreme law of the land, and to these every citizen of every State owes obedience, whether in his individual or official capacity.
Page 13 - Let us, then, consider all attempts to weaken this Union, by maintaining that each State is separately and individually independent, as a species of political heresy, which can never benefit us, but may bring on us the most serious distress.
Page 15 - Confederation to enforce anything, for example, contributions of money. It was not necessary to give them that power expressly; they have it by the law of nature. When two parties make a compact, there results to each a power of compelling the other to execute it. Compulsion was never so easy as in our case, where a single frigate would soon levy on the commerce of any State the deficiency of its contributions...