Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Volume 1Little, Brown,, 1873 - Constitutional history |
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... legislature . It will follow , as a consequence , that the same act passed by one legislature will be constitutional , and by another unconstitutional . Nay , it might be unconstitutional , as well from its omissions as its enactments ...
... legislature . It will follow , as a consequence , that the same act passed by one legislature will be constitutional , and by another unconstitutional . Nay , it might be unconstitutional , as well from its omissions as its enactments ...
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... legislature supposed that they had established post - roads in the sense of the Constitution , when they declared certain roads , then in existence , to be post- roads , and designated the routes along which the mails were to pass . As ...
... legislature supposed that they had established post - roads in the sense of the Constitution , when they declared certain roads , then in existence , to be post- roads , and designated the routes along which the mails were to pass . As ...
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... legislature to close up , or discontinue a road , the nearest and the best between two great States , rivals perhaps for the trade and intercourse of a third State ; shall it be said , that Congress has no right to make or repair a road ...
... legislature to close up , or discontinue a road , the nearest and the best between two great States , rivals perhaps for the trade and intercourse of a third State ; shall it be said , that Congress has no right to make or repair a road ...
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... legislature be it said , it has never been provoked by the state of the country even to attempt its exercise . One of the plainest constitutional provisions was , therefore , infringed when Milligan was tried by a court not ordained and ...
... legislature be it said , it has never been provoked by the state of the country even to attempt its exercise . One of the plainest constitutional provisions was , therefore , infringed when Milligan was tried by a court not ordained and ...
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... legislature , in 1820. [ The case on behalf of those States will be found very fully presented in Dwight's History of the Hartford Convention , p . 237 et seq . The first objection taken to the order of the President to call out the ...
... legislature , in 1820. [ The case on behalf of those States will be found very fully presented in Dwight's History of the Hartford Convention , p . 237 et seq . The first objection taken to the order of the President to call out the ...
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