Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Volume 1 |
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... grant whatsoever from the natives . No nation would suffer either its own subjects or those of any other nation to set up or vindicate any such title.1 It was deemed a right exclusively belonging to the government in its sovereign ...
... grant whatsoever from the natives . No nation would suffer either its own subjects or those of any other nation to set up or vindicate any such title.1 It was deemed a right exclusively belonging to the government in its sovereign ...
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... grant of the Pope . Her discussions respecting boundary , with France , with Great Britain , and with the United States , all show that she placed it on the rights given by discovery . Portugal sustained her claim to the Brazils by the ...
... grant of the Pope . Her discussions respecting boundary , with France , with Great Britain , and with the United States , all show that she placed it on the rights given by discovery . Portugal sustained her claim to the Brazils by the ...
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... grant made to a company of merchants in 1614 ; but in 1621 , the States - General made , as we are told by Mr. Smith , a grant of the country to the West India Company , by the name of New Netherlands . The claim of the Dutch was always ...
... grant made to a company of merchants in 1614 ; but in 1621 , the States - General made , as we are told by Mr. Smith , a grant of the country to the West India Company , by the name of New Netherlands . The claim of the Dutch was always ...
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... grant to the second or northern colony , a new and more enlarged charter was granted to the Duke of Lenox and others ... grants made by the Plymouth Company , so far as we can learn , have been respected . §17 . " In pursuance of the ...
... grant to the second or northern colony , a new and more enlarged charter was granted to the Duke of Lenox and others ... grants made by the Plymouth Company , so far as we can learn , have been respected . §17 . " In pursuance of the ...
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... grant , that the title as well as possession was in the Indians when it was made , and that it passed nothing on that account . § 20. " These various patents cannot be considered as nulli- ties ; nor can they be limited to a mere grant ...
... grant , that the title as well as possession was in the Indians when it was made , and that it passed nothing on that account . § 20. " These various patents cannot be considered as nulli- ties ; nor can they be limited to a mere grant ...
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Page 751 - 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.
Page 423 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him, he is not member of Bristol, but...
Page 165 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Page 191 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 191 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all— Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Page 163 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 348 - In a free government, the security for civil rights must be the same as that for religious rights. It consists in the one case in the multiplicity of interests, and in the other in the multiplicity of sects.
Page 308 - The powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.' The government of the United States, therefore, can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the constitution, and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Page 117 - England, sir, is a nation which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant, and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Page 247 - Not only, therefore, can there be no loss of separate and independent autonomy to the States, through their union under the Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.