Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Volume 3 |
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... require much illustration in order to vindicate it . The object of the power is to produce uniformity of value throughout the Union , and thus to preclude us from the embarrassments of a perpetually fluctuating and variable currency ...
... require much illustration in order to vindicate it . The object of the power is to produce uniformity of value throughout the Union , and thus to preclude us from the embarrassments of a perpetually fluctuating and variable currency ...
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... require . " It is believed , that not one example can be given , from the first set- tlement of our country to the adoption of this constitution , of a post- office being established , without a view to existing roads ; or of a single ...
... require . " It is believed , that not one example can be given , from the first set- tlement of our country to the adoption of this constitution , of a post- office being established , without a view to existing roads ; or of a single ...
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... requires the word to be deflected from its received and usual meaning ; and gives it a meaning unknown to , and unacknowledged by lexicographers . Especially is it objectionable and inadmissible , where the received . and common meaning ...
... requires the word to be deflected from its received and usual meaning ; and gives it a meaning unknown to , and unacknowledged by lexicographers . Especially is it objectionable and inadmissible , where the received . and common meaning ...
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... requires us to look at the na- ture of the instrument , and the objects of the power , as a national power , in order to expound its meaning , must come into operation . § 1145. But whatever be the extent of the power , narrow or large ...
... requires us to look at the na- ture of the instrument , and the objects of the power , as a national power , in order to expound its meaning , must come into operation . § 1145. But whatever be the extent of the power , narrow or large ...
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... require judicial decision . § 1162. The clause , as it was originally reported in the first draft of the constitution , was in substance , though not in language , as it now stands . It was sub- sequently amended ; and in the second ...
... require judicial decision . § 1162. The clause , as it was originally reported in the first draft of the constitution , was in substance , though not in language , as it now stands . It was sub- sequently amended ; and in the second ...
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Page 168 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 722 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 426 - Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both ; and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people, declared in the Constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter rather than the former. They ought to regulate their decisions by the fundamental laws, rather than by those which are not fundamental.
Page 182 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said Territory that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Page 454 - The judiciary, on the contrary, has no influence over either the sword or the purse; no direction either of the strength or of the wealth of the society, and can take no active resolution whatever. It may truly be said to have neither FORCE nor WILL but merely judgment; and must ultimately depend upon the aid of the executive arm even for the efficacy of its judgments.
Page 486 - Next to permanency in office, nothing can contribute more to the independence of the judges than a fixed provision for their support.
Page 430 - Thus, the particular phraseology of the Constitution of the United States confirms and strengthens the principle, supposed to be essential to all written constitutions, that a law repugnant to the Constitution is void; and that courts, as well as other departments, are bound by that instrument.
Page 669 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens...
Page 428 - If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act, contrary to the constitution, is not law: if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts, on the part of the people, to limit a power, in its own nature, illimitable.
Page 150 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.