Southern Review, Volume 6A.E. Miller, 1830 |
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... limit the number of votes any stockholder should be allowed to give ? Why ? because if un- limited , a few of the great subscribers might make the interest of the company subservient to their own interest . In such an association , is ...
... limit the number of votes any stockholder should be allowed to give ? Why ? because if un- limited , a few of the great subscribers might make the interest of the company subservient to their own interest . In such an association , is ...
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... limits to intrusted authority , who has witnessed the bold , unprincipled , unsparing rapacity of the " American System , " and its advocates ? Who can say that a Congress - majority will scruple for an instant to transfer into their ...
... limits to intrusted authority , who has witnessed the bold , unprincipled , unsparing rapacity of the " American System , " and its advocates ? Who can say that a Congress - majority will scruple for an instant to transfer into their ...
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... limits to a peo- ple drunk with power ; and without knowing or dreaming how utterly unfit they were to enjoy the blessings they coveted . They were unprepared for self - government ; they are so to this day ; and they will always be so ...
... limits to a peo- ple drunk with power ; and without knowing or dreaming how utterly unfit they were to enjoy the blessings they coveted . They were unprepared for self - government ; they are so to this day ; and they will always be so ...
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... limits will not permit it . We must refer to the book itself where they are distinctly marked out . We must content ourselves with turning the remainder of our attention to our author's portraits of individuals , and from which too we ...
... limits will not permit it . We must refer to the book itself where they are distinctly marked out . We must content ourselves with turning the remainder of our attention to our author's portraits of individuals , and from which too we ...
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... limits allow , we should take pleasure in showing from our author , the situation of Robespierre when his sangui- nary power was felt to be slipping from him . His agony was like that of the wretch who is suspended by his hands over a ...
... limits allow , we should take pleasure in showing from our author , the situation of Robespierre when his sangui- nary power was felt to be slipping from him . His agony was like that of the wretch who is suspended by his hands over a ...
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Page 174 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise :hese That of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the States who are parties thereto have the right and are in duty bound to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 164 - ... each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 98 - I loved the man, and do honour his memory, on this side idolatry, as much as any. He was (indeed) honest, and of an open and free nature; had an excellent phantasy, brave notions, and gentle expressions...
Page 163 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...
Page 98 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line.
Page 168 - Having constituted the government, and declared its powers, the people have further said that since somebody must decide on the extent of these powers, the government shall itself decide, subject always, like other popular governments, to its responsibility to the people. And now, sir, I repeat, how is it that a state legislature acquires any power to interfere?
Page 438 - On the other hand it is perfectly clear that the sovereign powers vested in the state governments, by their respective constitutions, remained unaltered and unimpaired, except so far as they were granted to the government of the United States.
Page 163 - The states then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated...
Page 463 - Executive and a convenient number of the National Judiciary, ought to compose a council of revision with authority to examine every act of the National Legislature before it shall operate, and every act of a particular Legislature before a Negative thereon shall be final; and that the dissent of the said Council shall amount to a rejection, unless the Act of the National Legislature be again passed, or that of a particular Legislature be again negatived by of the members of each branch.
Page 168 - But who shall decide this question of interference ? To whom lies the last appeal ? This, sir, the constitution itself decides also, by declaring " that the judicial power shall extend to all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States.