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He gave notice that on the next day he proposed to move that the House should go into committee of the whole on the state of the commonwealth , to take into consideration that portion of the governor's address which referred to certain ...
He gave notice that on the next day he proposed to move that the House should go into committee of the whole on the state of the commonwealth , to take into consideration that portion of the governor's address which referred to certain ...
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The first point is not very significant , perhaps , but it has a bearing on the initiative in the whole campaign . The facts that resolutions protesting against the Alien and Sedition laws were passed by various local meetings in ...
The first point is not very significant , perhaps , but it has a bearing on the initiative in the whole campaign . The facts that resolutions protesting against the Alien and Sedition laws were passed by various local meetings in ...
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The States - less than the whole number - have a right to interpose , secured , as already shown , in the Constitution ; and this , not only persuasively , but peremptorily ; to compel the action they may desire ; and it is demonstrable ...
The States - less than the whole number - have a right to interpose , secured , as already shown , in the Constitution ; and this , not only persuasively , but peremptorily ; to compel the action they may desire ; and it is demonstrable ...
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With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
With a power in Congress to authorize such a draft or conscription , and in the Executive to decide conclusively upon the existence and continuance of the emergency , the whole militia may be converted into a standing army disposable at ...
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It will be recollected that its credit was nearly gone , Washington had fallen , the whole coast was blockaded , and an immense force , collected in the West Indies , was about to make a descent which it was supposed we had no means of ...
It will be recollected that its credit was nearly gone , Washington had fallen , the whole coast was blockaded , and an immense force , collected in the West Indies , was about to make a descent which it was supposed we had no means of ...
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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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