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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... reasons induced him It was not unusual in the other House . When there , he to vote against the motion to amend . had ... reason for taking it out of the hands of the standing committee to which it properly belonged . Was it proposed to ...
... reasons induced him It was not unusual in the other House . When there , he to vote against the motion to amend . had ... reason for taking it out of the hands of the standing committee to which it properly belonged . Was it proposed to ...
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... reasons in its favor : time , and referred to a select committee , consisting of Mr. DICKERSON , Mr. WHITE , Mr. FORSYTH ,. Mr. BURNET , and Mr. KNIGHT . The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Ex- ecutive business , and ...
... reasons in its favor : time , and referred to a select committee , consisting of Mr. DICKERSON , Mr. WHITE , Mr. FORSYTH ,. Mr. BURNET , and Mr. KNIGHT . The Senate then proceeded to the consideration of Ex- ecutive business , and ...
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... reasons to sustain the in want of revenue , and for one or two other reasons charge . This publication , to the mind of ... reason why they should not be repeal ed , and why the bill should not pass . The bill was ordered to be engrossed ...
... reasons to sustain the in want of revenue , and for one or two other reasons charge . This publication , to the mind of ... reason why they should not be repeal ed , and why the bill should not pass . The bill was ordered to be engrossed ...
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... reasons Committee . Thus was I non - suited for the third time . given , for proceeding in my present application ; but , as The fourth session has now come round ; the same subject example is sometimes more authoritative than reason ...
... reasons Committee . Thus was I non - suited for the third time . given , for proceeding in my present application ; but , as The fourth session has now come round ; the same subject example is sometimes more authoritative than reason ...
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... reason -- the force of a great to a rule or principle of parliamentary practice , which example added to the weight of unanswerable reasons , it is only necessary to read now in order to avoid the pos- in favor of early discussion , so ...
... reason -- the force of a great to a rule or principle of parliamentary practice , which example added to the weight of unanswerable reasons , it is only necessary to read now in order to avoid the pos- in favor of early discussion , so ...
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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.