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... States having ratified it , Congress fixed the time for choosing electors for President and Vice - President ; the time for making choice of these officers , and the time and place when and where the government should commence ...
... States having ratified it , Congress fixed the time for choosing electors for President and Vice - President ; the time for making choice of these officers , and the time and place when and where the government should commence ...
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... should be repealed . 14. Mr. Jefferson having served his country as chief magistrate for eight consecutive years , now retired to private life ; and James Madison , who had been elected ... Vice - President . SECTION IV . MADISON'S ...
... should be repealed . 14. Mr. Jefferson having served his country as chief magistrate for eight consecutive years , now retired to private life ; and James Madison , who had been elected ... Vice - President . SECTION IV . MADISON'S ...
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... States . 5 9. During the pendency of the Missouri question , Mr. Monroe was re- elected President [ 1820 ] , and Mr. Tompkins ' Vice - President , by an almost unanimous vote , the old Federal party , as an organization , being nearly ...
... States . 5 9. During the pendency of the Missouri question , Mr. Monroe was re- elected President [ 1820 ] , and Mr. Tompkins ' Vice - President , by an almost unanimous vote , the old Federal party , as an organization , being nearly ...
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... he made a tour of over five thousand miles , throughout the United States ... President . John C. Calhoun had been chosen Vice - President by the people ... should be appointed his Secretary of State . This , however , was only a ...
... he made a tour of over five thousand miles , throughout the United States ... President . John C. Calhoun had been chosen Vice - President by the people ... should be appointed his Secretary of State . This , however , was only a ...
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... it led to menaces of serious evils in 1831 and 1832.6 7. Another presidential election was held in the Autumn of 1828 , and resulted in the elec- tion of Andrew Jackson for President , and John C. Calhoun " ( re - elected ) Vice - President ...
... it led to menaces of serious evils in 1831 and 1832.6 7. Another presidential election was held in the Autumn of 1828 , and resulted in the elec- tion of Andrew Jackson for President , and John C. Calhoun " ( re - elected ) Vice - President ...
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Page 365 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, lay any Duty of Tonnage, keep Troops or Ships of War in time of Peace, enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, or engage in War, unless actually Invaded, or in such imminent Danger as will not admit of delay.
Page 194 - Mr. President — Though I am truly sensible of the high honor done me, in this appointment, yet I feel great distress, from a consciousness that my abilities and military experience may not be equal to the extensive and important trust.
Page 363 - Adjournment) shall be presented to the President of the United States; and before the Same shall take Effect, shall be approved by him, or being disapproved by him,, shall be repassed by two thirds of the Senate and House of Representatives, according to the Rules and Limitations prescribed in the Case of a Bill. SECTION.
Page 354 - ... whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
Page 358 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 351 - Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No, — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a state...
Page 193 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Page 146 - London, duty free ; but prohibited the erection or continuance of any mill, or other engine, for slitting or rolling iron, or any plating forge to work with a tilt-hammer, or any furnace for making steel, in the colonies, under the penalty of two hundred pounds.
Page 351 - What constitutes a state? Not high-raised battlement or labored mound, Thick wall or moated gate ; Not cities proud, with spires and turrets crowned ; Not bays and broad-armed ports, Where, laughing at the storm, rich navies ride ; Not starred and spangled courts, Where low-browed baseness wafts perfume to pride. No : MEN, high-minded MEN...
Page 62 - God and one of another, covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil body politic, for our better ordering and preservation and furtherance of the ends aforesaid ; and by virtue hereof to enact, constitute, and frame such just and equal laws, ordinances, acts, constitutions, and offices from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general good of the Colony, unto which we promise all due submission and obedience.