The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1849 - United States |
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... called into office , no fit occasion has arisen for expressing to my fellow - citizens at large the deep and respectful sense which I feel of the renewed testimony of public approbation . While , on the one hand , it awakened my ...
... called into office , no fit occasion has arisen for expressing to my fellow - citizens at large the deep and respectful sense which I feel of the renewed testimony of public approbation . While , on the one hand , it awakened my ...
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... called Quakers , from the yearly meeting held at Rhode Island for New England , in the year 1793 , was presented Second . A statement of the Domestic Debt redeemed and read , praying Congress to exercise the autho- since the ...
... called Quakers , from the yearly meeting held at Rhode Island for New England , in the year 1793 , was presented Second . A statement of the Domestic Debt redeemed and read , praying Congress to exercise the autho- since the ...
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... called for from us , and which justice to others left us free to perform . I have gone further . Rather than employ force for the restitution of certain vessels which I deemed the United States bound to restore , I thought it more ...
... called for from us , and which justice to others left us free to perform . I have gone further . Rather than employ force for the restitution of certain vessels which I deemed the United States bound to restore , I thought it more ...
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... called up the petition of Tho- mas Manning , presented last week . He observed that the facts set forth in the petition were estab- lished by documents which accompanied it . That the petition originated in a contract made by the pe ...
... called up the petition of Tho- mas Manning , presented last week . He observed that the facts set forth in the petition were estab- lished by documents which accompanied it . That the petition originated in a contract made by the pe ...
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... called the attention of the Committee particularly to the subject of navigation , of manufactures , and of the discrimination proposed in the motion be- tween some nations and others . [ JANUARY , 1794 . the trade might be diminished ...
... called the attention of the Committee particularly to the subject of navigation , of manufactures , and of the discrimination proposed in the motion be- tween some nations and others . [ JANUARY , 1794 . the trade might be diminished ...
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Page 877 - Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, (two-thirds of both houses concurring), That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several States as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 25 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States...
Page 129 - That whenever the United States shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation or Indian tribe, it shall be lawful for the President of the United States to call forth such number of the militia of the State, or States, most convenient to the place of danger, or scene of action, as he may judge necessary to repel such invasion, and to issue his orders for that purpose to such officer or officers of the militia as he shall think proper.
Page 811 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 11 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.
Page 11 - There is a rank due to the United States among nations which will be withheld, if not absolutely lost, by the reputation of weakness. If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it. If we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known that we are at all times ready for war.
Page 875 - An Act to provide more effectually for the Collection of the Duties imposed by Law on Goods, Wares, and Merchandise imported into the United States, and on the Tonnage of Ships or Vessels...
Page 769 - An Act for the Punishment of certain Crimes against the United States,' " which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void, and of no force.
Page 67 - An act in addition to the act for the punishment of certain crimes against the United States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect.
Page 887 - November, 1794, on condition that there be added to the said Treaty an article, whereby it shall be agreed to suspend the operation of so much of the 12th article, as respects the trade which his said Majesty thereby consents may be carried on, between the United States and his islands in the West Indies, in the manner, and on the terms and conditions therein specified.