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... CONGRESS AND THE COUNTRY : RATIFICATION BY DELAWARE , PENNSYLVANIA , NEW JERSEY , GEORGIA AND CONNECTICUT . While the Convention had been working out the draft of the Constitution , Congress , in session at New York , had passed several ...
... CONGRESS AND THE COUNTRY : RATIFICATION BY DELAWARE , PENNSYLVANIA , NEW JERSEY , GEORGIA AND CONNECTICUT . While the Convention had been working out the draft of the Constitution , Congress , in session at New York , had passed several ...
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... Congress and the Convention were turning their thoughts to the same great question about the same time , for several members of the Convention were mem- bers of Congress and were informed of its proceedings . A motive for excluding ...
... Congress and the Convention were turning their thoughts to the same great question about the same time , for several members of the Convention were mem- bers of Congress and were informed of its proceedings . A motive for excluding ...
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... Congress had all the weight practically of an estab- lished precedent.1 Had the Constitution remained to this day exactly as it went forth to Congress and the States in 1787 , the north- west ordinance would have passed into oblivion ...
... Congress had all the weight practically of an estab- lished precedent.1 Had the Constitution remained to this day exactly as it went forth to Congress and the States in 1787 , the north- west ordinance would have passed into oblivion ...
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... Congress he was an obstructionist , plead- ing for a Bill of Rights ; out of Congress , he was an agi- tator and pamphleteer , attacking the plan as a violation of the principles of republican government . His conduct , whether in ...
... Congress he was an obstructionist , plead- ing for a Bill of Rights ; out of Congress , he was an agi- tator and pamphleteer , attacking the plan as a violation of the principles of republican government . His conduct , whether in ...
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... Congress should use no words of approval ; and in this spirit , —the Anti - Federalists , consenting to unanimity , and the Feder- alists , that the Constitution should go forth without words of approval , on the twenty - eighth of the ...
... Congress should use no words of approval ; and in this spirit , —the Anti - Federalists , consenting to unanimity , and the Feder- alists , that the Constitution should go forth without words of approval , on the twenty - eighth of the ...
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Page 407 - But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 547 - I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push it forward till it shall become alike lawful in all the States, old as well as new, North as well as South.
Page 399 - The opinion of the judges has no more authority over Congress than the opinion of Congress has over the judges, and on that point the President is independent of both.
Page 218 - No law varying the compensation for the services of the Senators and Representatives shall take effect, until an election of Representatives shall have intervened.
Page 464 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Page 598 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it. I cannot be ignorant of the fact that many worthy and patriotic citizens are desirous of having the National Constitution amended.
Page 479 - AND OTHER STATES UNITED WITH HER UNDER THE COMPACT ENTITLED "THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
Page 213 - Representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of Representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by...
Page 585 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 333 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.