Secession and Constitutional Liberty: In which is Shown the Right of a Nation to Secede from a Compact of Federation and that Such Right is Necessary to Constitutional Liberty and a Surety of Union, Volume 2Neale publishing Company, 1920 - Constitutional law |
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... check on democracy . . . the protectorate of minorities , and the consecration of self - government . . . . The repentance of the Athenians came too late to save the Republic . But the lesson of their experience endures . . . it teaches ...
... check on democracy . . . the protectorate of minorities , and the consecration of self - government . . . . The repentance of the Athenians came too late to save the Republic . But the lesson of their experience endures . . . it teaches ...
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... States as under all other Govts . established & organized on free principles . The first remedy is in the checks provided among the constituted authorities ; that failing the next is in the influence of the APPENDIX 31 67.
... States as under all other Govts . established & organized on free principles . The first remedy is in the checks provided among the constituted authorities ; that failing the next is in the influence of the APPENDIX 31 67.
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... checks against tyranny can be devised , if those founded in a common interest are unsuccess- ful ? and can they be unsuccessful , except by exchanging them for a concentrated supremacy ? " * " In establishing the division of powers ...
... checks against tyranny can be devised , if those founded in a common interest are unsuccess- ful ? and can they be unsuccessful , except by exchanging them for a concentrated supremacy ? " * " In establishing the division of powers ...
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... check which they commended . If experience has ascertained that the su- periority of power is in the federal government , they have proved that the disposition to encroach must go with it . The axiom , that the least moderation is to be ...
... check which they commended . If experience has ascertained that the su- periority of power is in the federal government , they have proved that the disposition to encroach must go with it . The axiom , that the least moderation is to be ...
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... coercing the state governments , whilst a national government was in contemplation , proves that the constitution preferred the mutual check , to a concentrated supremacy . But the federal government may coerce a diso- APPENDIX 31B 95.
... coercing the state governments , whilst a national government was in contemplation , proves that the constitution preferred the mutual check , to a concentrated supremacy . But the federal government may coerce a diso- APPENDIX 31B 95.
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Page 154 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 279 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 279 - ... security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations; and, what is of inestimable value! they must derive from union an...
Page 343 - I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in any way the social and political equality of the white and black races,— that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people...
Page 50 - ... 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, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 335 - I hold, that in contemplation of universal law, and of the Constitution, the Union of these states is perpetual. Perpetuity is implied, if not expressed, in the fundamental law of all national governments. It is safe to assert that no government proper, ever had a provision in its organic law for its own termination.
Page 193 - States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 343 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so ; and I have no inclination to do so.
Page 195 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the...
Page 303 - The proposition is peace. Not peace through the medium of war; not peace to be hunted through the labyrinth of intricate and endless negotiations; not peace to arise out of universal discord fomented from principle in all parts of the empire; not peace to depend on the juridical determination of perplexing questions, or the precise marking the shadowy boundaries of a complex government. It is simple peace, sought in its natural course and in its ordinary haunts. It is peace sought in the spirit of...