The Southern States of the American Union: Considered in Their Relations to the Constitutions of the United States and to the Resulting Union |
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... Ratification of the Con- stitution by conventions in the several States - Navi- gation of the Mississippi - What the South did to establish the Government - Magnanimity in sur- rendering the taxing power - Washington , the illus- trious ...
... Ratification of the Con- stitution by conventions in the several States - Navi- gation of the Mississippi - What the South did to establish the Government - Magnanimity in sur- rendering the taxing power - Washington , the illus- trious ...
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... ratify whatever might be done for the public good . The States were not bound by any resolves of Congress , except so ... ratification of the articles of Confederation , the Congress was without any right or authority , except what was ...
... ratify whatever might be done for the public good . The States were not bound by any resolves of Congress , except so ... ratification of the articles of Confederation , the Congress was without any right or authority , except what was ...
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... ratification of the Articles of Confederation . It is necessary to inquire into the exact relation of these Congresses to the States , because much misapprehension exists on the subject ; and pub- lic men and historians have built ...
... ratification of the Articles of Confederation . It is necessary to inquire into the exact relation of these Congresses to the States , because much misapprehension exists on the subject ; and pub- lic men and historians have built ...
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... ratification of them by all of the States , each acting separately for itself , was suf- ficient to give them any binding force or authority . Various causes as to methods of voting , of apportioning troops and taxes , and of regulating ...
... ratification of them by all of the States , each acting separately for itself , was suf- ficient to give them any binding force or authority . Various causes as to methods of voting , of apportioning troops and taxes , and of regulating ...
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... ratifying the same . " It is not possible , nor desirable , to parcel out merit for this grand structure , but no honest person can claim that Washington , Madison , Mason , Martin , Rut- ledge , the Pinckneys , Wythe , Carroll , and ...
... ratifying the same . " It is not possible , nor desirable , to parcel out merit for this grand structure , but no honest person can claim that Washington , Madison , Mason , Martin , Rut- ledge , the Pinckneys , Wythe , Carroll , and ...
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Page 202 - To lay with one hand the power of the government on the property of the citizen, and with the other to bestow it upon favored individuals to aid private enterprises and build up private fortunes, is none the less a robbery because it is done under the forms of law and is called taxation.
Page 68 - That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States, by any particular State, pursuant to the recommendation of Congress of the 6th day of September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States...
Page 30 - Thucydides and have studied and admired the master states of the world — that for solidity of reasoning, force of sagacity, and wisdom of conclusion, under such a complication of difficult circumstances, no nation or body of men can stand in preference to the general congress at Philadelphia.
Page 72 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 124 - I am compelled to declare it as my deliberate opinion, that if this bill passes, the bonds of this Union are virtually dissolved ; that the States which compose it are free from their obligations, and that, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation — amicably, if they can ; violently, if they must.
Page 192 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 107 - That if those, who administer the general government, be permitted to transgress the limits fixed by that compact, by a total disregard to the special delegations of power therein contained, an annihilation of the state governments, and the...
Page 181 - And we have already had occasion to remark at this term, that 'the people of each State compose a State, having its own government, and endowed with all the functions essential to separate and independent existence," and that 'without the States in union, there could be no such political body as the United States.
Page 43 - That no man shall be compelled to frequent or support any religious worship, place or ministry whatsoever, nor shall be enforced, restrained, molested, or burthened in his body or goods, nor shall otherwise suffer on account of his religious opinions or belief; but that all men shall be free to profess, and by argument to maintain, their opinions in matters of religion, and that the same shall in no wise diminish, enlarge, or affect their civil capacities.
Page 21 - Britain; and that the King's Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords spiritual and temporal and Commons of Great Britain in Parliament assembled, had, hath and of right ought to have, full power and authority to make laws and statutes of sufficient force and validity to bind the colonies and people of America, subjects of the Crown of Great Britain in all cases whatsoever.