The Constitutional and Political History of the United States, Volume 1Callaghan, 1879 - Constitutional history |
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... treasury under Mon- roe , was the designated candidate of a portion of the demo- cratic party , when a stroke of paralysis made of him a physical and mental ruin . Spite of this , however , his more intimate friends did not want to drop ...
... treasury under Mon- roe , was the designated candidate of a portion of the demo- cratic party , when a stroke of paralysis made of him a physical and mental ruin . Spite of this , however , his more intimate friends did not want to drop ...
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... treasury - trough here in this capital . Such running , such jostling , such wriggling , such clambering over one another's backs , such squealing because the tub is so narrow and the company so crowded ! No , sir , let us not talk of ...
... treasury - trough here in this capital . Such running , such jostling , such wriggling , such clambering over one another's backs , such squealing because the tub is so narrow and the company so crowded ! No , sir , let us not talk of ...
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... of North Carolina and a seat in the senate of the Union . Ingham , of Pennsylvania , the secretary of the treasury , a clever business man , had long been a useful mem- ber of congress . He had recommended himself to Jackson.
... of North Carolina and a seat in the senate of the Union . Ingham , of Pennsylvania , the secretary of the treasury , a clever business man , had long been a useful mem- ber of congress . He had recommended himself to Jackson.
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... treasury , against Jeremiah Mason , one of the most distinguished ju- rists of New England , as president of the branch bank at 1 In a eulogy on Jackson , delivered in Washington . 4 2 In opposition to this , indeed , may be adduced ...
... treasury , against Jeremiah Mason , one of the most distinguished ju- rists of New England , as president of the branch bank at 1 In a eulogy on Jackson , delivered in Washington . 4 2 In opposition to this , indeed , may be adduced ...
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... treasury office , had been president of the small bank in question in Concord , was laboring to effect this transfer of the pension agency . Mason , as well as the mother bank , refused to comply with Eaton's demand , because the law ...
... treasury office , had been president of the small bank in question in Concord , was laboring to effect this transfer of the pension agency . Mason , as well as the mother bank , refused to comply with Eaton's demand , because the law ...
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Page 429 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Page 64 - By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Page 64 - In such cases, their acts are his acts ; and whatever opinion may be entertained of the manner in which Executive discretion may be used, still there exists, and can exist, no power to control that discretion. The subjects are political; they respect the nation, not individual rights, and being intrusted to the Executive, the decision of the Executive is conclusive.
Page 441 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...
Page 48 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Page 49 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 263 - William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Page 50 - ... every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful...
Page 254 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall— (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Page 245 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.