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... Letter .... Last Days of the Confederation . Counting the Electoral Vote . Inauguration of Washington .... Organization of the Government . Change in Public Sentiment . North Carolina Ratifies ... The North Carolina Amendments .... The ...
... Letter .... Last Days of the Confederation . Counting the Electoral Vote . Inauguration of Washington .... Organization of the Government . Change in Public Sentiment . North Carolina Ratifies ... The North Carolina Amendments .... The ...
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... letter of Secretary , transmitting it to the governors , see Docu- mentary History , I , 22-23 . 2 Carrington to Jefferson , June 9 , 1787 , and to Madison , June 13 . SENTIMENT OF THE COUNTRY . 7 which would involve the The Anti ...
... letter of Secretary , transmitting it to the governors , see Docu- mentary History , I , 22-23 . 2 Carrington to Jefferson , June 9 , 1787 , and to Madison , June 13 . SENTIMENT OF THE COUNTRY . 7 which would involve the The Anti ...
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... letters from a " Federal Farmer " to the " Republican " are reprinted in Paul Leicester Ford's collection of Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States , published during its discussion by the people ; Brooklyn , New York , 1888 ...
... letters from a " Federal Farmer " to the " Republican " are reprinted in Paul Leicester Ford's collection of Pamphlets on the Constitution of the United States , published during its discussion by the people ; Brooklyn , New York , 1888 ...
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... letter , which originated in the county of Cumberland , thirty - three delegates , rep- resenting thirteen counties , including in their number Rob- ert Whitehill , John Smilie and Albert Gallatin , concluded a conference by drawing up ...
... letter , which originated in the county of Cumberland , thirty - three delegates , rep- resenting thirteen counties , including in their number Rob- ert Whitehill , John Smilie and Albert Gallatin , concluded a conference by drawing up ...
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... Letters " in Pennsylvania , and they bore immedi- ate fruit . It was to answer these letters , and all that they implied , that James Wilson was invited to make his cele- brated speech in the State House yard . The " Farmer " admitted ...
... Letters " in Pennsylvania , and they bore immedi- ate fruit . It was to answer these letters , and all that they implied , that James Wilson was invited to make his cele- brated speech in the State House yard . The " Farmer " admitted ...
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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.