Public Documents: Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates; Report of the Commissioners While at Washington; Letters from Massachusetts Members in Congress. Letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania; Report and Resolutions of Pennsylvania State. Letter of Governor of New-Jersey, Inclosing Sundry Papers. Letter of Governor of New-York, Inclosing Sundry Papers, Relating to Amendments of the Constitution, Proposed by Massachusetts |
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Page 42 - It is hereby ordained and declared, by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original States and the people and States in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Page 20 - ... disciplined, and held in readiness for service; and upon the request of the governor of either of the other states to employ the whole of such detachment or corps, as well as the regular forces of the state, or such part thereof as may be required and can be spared consistently with the safety of the state, in assisting the state, making such request to repel any invasion thereof which shall be made or attempted by the public enemy.
Page 21 - Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several states which may be included within this Union, according to their respective numbers of free persons, including those bound to serve for a term of years, and excluding Indians not taxed, and all other persons.
Page 5 - Events may prove that the causes of our calamities are deep and permanent. They may be found to proceed, not merely from the blindness of prejudice, pride of opinion, violence of party spirit, or the confusion of the times; but they may be traced to implacable combinations of individuals or of states to monopolize power and office and to trample without remorse upon the rights and interests of commercial sections of the Union.
Page 25 - Laws of the United States from the Adoption of the Constitution to the end of the Thirty-Fourth Congress, 1789—1857, by Frederick C.
Page 15 - Lastly and principally. — A visionary and superficial theory in regard to commerce, accompanied by a real hatred but a feigned regard to its interests, and a ruinous perseverance in efforts to render it an instrument of coercion and war.
Page 41 - States, in all respects whatever and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government: Provided, The constitution and government, so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles, and, so far as it can be, consistent with the general interest of the confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand.
Page 47 - ... hereafter be naturalized, shall be eligible as a member of the Senate or House of Representatives of the United States, nor capable of holding any civil office under the authority of the United States. Seventh. The same person shall not be elected President of the United States a second time; nor shall the President be elected from the same State two terms in succession.
Page 9 - The mode and the energy of ihe opposition should always conform to the nature of the violation, the intention of its authors, the extent of the injury inflicted, the determination manifested to persist in it, and the danger of delay. But in cases of deliberate, dangerous, and palpable infractions of the Constitution...
Page 53 - No person who shall hereafter be naturalized, shall be eligible as a member of the senate or house of representatives of the United States, nor capable of holding any civil office under the authority of the United States.
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| Title | Public Documents: Containing Proceedings of the Hartford Convention of Delegates; Report of the Commissioners While at Washington; Letters from Massachusetts Members in Congress. Letter from the Governor of Pennsylvania; Report and Resolutions of Pennsylvania State. Letter of Governor of New ... |
| Contributor | Massachusetts. General Court. Senate |
| Publisher | order of the [Mass.] Senate, 1815 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 15 Nov 2007 |
| Length | 54 pages |
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