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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... maintained by its founders and friends , and confirmed and illustrated by the actual prac- tice of the government . The expositions to be found in the work are less to be regarded as my own opinions than as those of the great minds ...
... maintained by its founders and friends , and confirmed and illustrated by the actual prac- tice of the government . The expositions to be found in the work are less to be regarded as my own opinions than as those of the great minds ...
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... maintained a claim to the exclusive possession and occupancy of the territory within their 1 Johnson v . M'Intosh , 8 Wheat . R. 543 , 572 , 573 ; 1 Doug . Summ . 110 . respective limits , as sovereigns and absolute proprietors of the 6 ...
... maintained a claim to the exclusive possession and occupancy of the territory within their 1 Johnson v . M'Intosh , 8 Wheat . R. 543 , 572 , 573 ; 1 Doug . Summ . 110 . respective limits , as sovereigns and absolute proprietors of the 6 ...
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... maintained , that the ex- clusive right to purchase from the Indians resided in the govern- ment . § 32. " In pursuance of the same idea , Virginia proceeded , at the same session , to open her land - office for the sale of that coun ...
... maintained , that the ex- clusive right to purchase from the Indians resided in the govern- ment . § 32. " In pursuance of the same idea , Virginia proceeded , at the same session , to open her land - office for the sale of that coun ...
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... maintained , that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy , either by purchase or by conquest ; and gave also a right to such a degree of sovereignty as the cir- cumstances of the people would allow ...
... maintained , that discovery gave an exclusive right to extinguish the Indian title of occupancy , either by purchase or by conquest ; and gave also a right to such a degree of sovereignty as the cir- cumstances of the people would allow ...
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... maintained an ex- clusive supremacy down to the period of the American Revolution . Marriages , except in special cases , were required to be celebrated in the parish church , and according to the rubric in the common- prayer book . The ...
... maintained an ex- clusive supremacy down to the period of the American Revolution . Marriages , except in special cases , were required to be celebrated in the parish church , and according to the rubric in the common- prayer book . The ...
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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.