Introduction to the Science of Government: And Compend of the Constitutional and Civil Jurisprudence of the United States. With a Brief Treatise on Political Economy. Designed for the Use of Families and Schools |
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Page 82 - to congress the result of their labors, the framers say: " In all our deliberations we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 334 - Hopkinson, John Hart, Abraham Clark. Delaware. Caesar Rodney, George Read, Thomas M'Kean. Maryland. Samuel Chase, William Paca, Thomas Stone, Charles Carroll, of Carrollton. Virginia. George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. Edward Rutledge, Thomas
Page 334 - Stephen Hopkins, William Ellery. New York. William Floyd, Philip Livingston, Francis Lewis, Lewis Morris. Pennsylvania. Robert Morris, Benjamin Rush, Benjamin Franklin, John Morton, George Clymer, James Smith, George Taylor, James Wilson, George Ross. New Jersey. Richard Stockton, John Witherspoon,
Page 63 - of grand juries. As a person might, upon a false accusation, be imprisoned to await a trial, and thus be Unjustly deprived of his liberty for a long time, it has been made the supreme law of the land, that no person shall be held to answer for a capital or other infamous crime, unless on a presentment or
Page 153 - of attainder, and ex post facto laws, have already been defined. (§ 433.) Being unjust in principle, and rendering both life and property insecure, the power to pass them is with the same degree of propriety prohibited to the states as to congress. § 449. Laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of
Page 261 - 803. To illustrate the benefits of a division of labor, Dr. Smith, in his Wealth of Nations, cites for an example the manufacture of pins. One man draws out the wire; another straightens it; a third cuts it; a fourth points it; a fifth grinds it at the top for receiving the head ; to make the head requires two or three distinct operations; to put it
Page 333 - conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent states may of right do. And for the support of the declaration, with a firm
Page 334 - Virginia. George Wythe, Richard Henry Lee, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Thomas Nelson, Jr., Francis Lightfoot Lee, Carter Braxton. North Carolina. William Hooper, Joseph Hewes, John Penn. South Carolina. Edward Rutledge, Thomas
Page 330 - DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. In Congress, July 4, 1776. the unanimous declaration of the thirteen united states of america. We hold these truths to be self-evident:
Page 334 - lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. JOHN HANCOCK, President of Congress, and Delegate from Massachusetts. New Hampshire. Josiah Bartlett, William Whipple, Matthew Thornton. Massachusetts Bay. Samuel Adams, John Adams, Robert Treat Paine, Elbridge Gerry. Connecticut. Roger Sherman, Samuel Huntington,