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It is only by a strict adherence to the limitations imposed by the Constitution on the Federal Government that this system works well and can answer the great ends for which it was instituted . I am opposed , therefore , in any shape ...
It is only by a strict adherence to the limitations imposed by the Constitution on the Federal Government that this system works well and can answer the great ends for which it was instituted . I am opposed , therefore , in any shape ...
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We all know that civil institutions are established for the public benefit , and that , when they cease to answer the ends of their existence , they may be changed .
We all know that civil institutions are established for the public benefit , and that , when they cease to answer the ends of their existence , they may be changed .
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They had been expressed in 1798 , in answer to the resolutions of Virginia , and she did not depart from them , nor bend them to the times . Misgoverned , wronged , oppressed , as she felt herself to be , she still held fast her ...
They had been expressed in 1798 , in answer to the resolutions of Virginia , and she did not depart from them , nor bend them to the times . Misgoverned , wronged , oppressed , as she felt herself to be , she still held fast her ...
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He would answer , of course , treason . No lawyer could give any other answer . John Fries , he would tell them , had learned that some years ago . How , then , they would ask , do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets ...
He would answer , of course , treason . No lawyer could give any other answer . John Fries , he would tell them , had learned that some years ago . How , then , they would ask , do you propose to defend us ? We are not afraid of bullets ...
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I answer , because such a course would , in the first instance , admit the exercise of an unconstitutional authority , which the States are not bound to submit to , even for a day , and because it would be ...
I answer , because such a course would , in the first instance , admit the exercise of an unconstitutional authority , which the States are not bound to submit to , even for a day , and because it would be ...
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861) Volume 5 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 11 Oct 2010 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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