Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volume 7; Volume 21; Volume 52Gales & Seaton, 1831 - Law |
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... further , from from the rule , and a rule was made on Mr. Lawless , to the testimony of the witness , that he was a native of Ire- show cause why an attachment should not issue against land ; that he left that country in 1810 ; that he ...
... further , from from the rule , and a rule was made on Mr. Lawless , to the testimony of the witness , that he was a native of Ire- show cause why an attachment should not issue against land ; that he left that country in 1810 ; that he ...
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... further argument upon it . perpetual ostracism from the confidence and honors of his This was declined by them . The judge published his country . Considerations of this kind entitled him to the opinion . The motives for its publication ...
... further argument upon it . perpetual ostracism from the confidence and honors of his This was declined by them . The judge published his country . Considerations of this kind entitled him to the opinion . The motives for its publication ...
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... further position , that Mr. BUCHANAN concluded his argument in support his care , for the purpose of crushing it at a blow . He would ask if it was right , reasonable , or proper , that the publication of Mr. Lawless , under the ...
... further position , that Mr. BUCHANAN concluded his argument in support his care , for the purpose of crushing it at a blow . He would ask if it was right , reasonable , or proper , that the publication of Mr. Lawless , under the ...
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... further diffi- Holland Land Company should establish their claim to culties in relation to it . the reversion of this $ 100,000 ; in what light would the proposed measure be viewed , if adopted ? Mr. FORSYTH said he could not perceive ...
... further diffi- Holland Land Company should establish their claim to culties in relation to it . the reversion of this $ 100,000 ; in what light would the proposed measure be viewed , if adopted ? Mr. FORSYTH said he could not perceive ...
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... further . So far Look to your documents also for an answer to the charge that the department is bankrupt , and that the aid of Con- gress is invoked and is necessary to avert impending ruin . Did the Postmaster General say this ? No ...
... further . So far Look to your documents also for an answer to the charge that the department is bankrupt , and that the aid of Con- gress is invoked and is necessary to avert impending ruin . Did the Postmaster General say this ? No ...
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Page 657 - Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.
Page 625 - Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Page 205 - An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Page 319 - Is on the engrossment of the amendment and the third reading of the bill. the amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a third time. The bill was read the third time.
Page 655 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States upon a...
Page 265 - Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur ; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law.
Page 665 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 49 - Where the private interests of a member are concerned in a bill or question he is to withdraw. And where such an interest has appeared, his voice has been disallowed, even after a division. In a case so contrary, not only to the laws of decency, but to the fundamental principle of the social compact, which denies to any man to be a judge in his own cause, it is for the honor of the House that this rule of immemorial observance should be strictly adhered to.
Page 657 - ... may, at their discretion, if the cause shall have been once remanded before, proceed to a final decision of the same and award execution.