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 2 |
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... Federalist , No. 7 , 11 , 22 ; Mr. Madison's Letter to Mr. Cabell , 18th Sept. 1828 ; 5 Marshall's Life of Washington , ch . 2 , p . 74 to 80 ; 2 Pitkin's Hist . 189 , 192 . 3 The Federalist , No. 7 , 11 , 12 , 22 , 41 , 42 . 4 Journal ...
... Federalist , No. 7 , 11 , 22 ; Mr. Madison's Letter to Mr. Cabell , 18th Sept. 1828 ; 5 Marshall's Life of Washington , ch . 2 , p . 74 to 80 ; 2 Pitkin's Hist . 189 , 192 . 3 The Federalist , No. 7 , 11 , 12 , 22 , 41 , 42 . 4 Journal ...
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... Federalist , No. 6 , 7 , 11 , 12 , 22 , 41 , 42 ; North River Steamboat Company v . Livingston , 3 Cowen's R. 713 . 8 12 Wheaton's R. 448 , 449 ; 9 Wheaton , 199 to 204 . The Federalist , No. 42 ; 1 Tuck . Black . Comm . App . 247 to ...
... Federalist , No. 6 , 7 , 11 , 12 , 22 , 41 , 42 ; North River Steamboat Company v . Livingston , 3 Cowen's R. 713 . 8 12 Wheaton's R. 448 , 449 ; 9 Wheaton , 199 to 204 . The Federalist , No. 42 ; 1 Tuck . Black . Comm . App . 247 to ...
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... Federalist , No. 22 , 42 . The Federalist , No. 11 , 12 . 3 The Federalist , No. 42 . 5 See the opinion of Mr. Justice Johnson , 9 Wheat . R. 224 to 228 . 6 In the convention it was moved to amend the article , so as to give to Congress ...
... Federalist , No. 22 , 42 . The Federalist , No. 11 , 12 . 3 The Federalist , No. 42 . 5 See the opinion of Mr. Justice Johnson , 9 Wheat . R. 224 to 228 . 6 In the convention it was moved to amend the article , so as to give to Congress ...
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... App . 2 See The Federalist , Nos . 11 , 12. See ante , § 1079 . Γ conducive to the same end . If Great Britain by 345 . 30 [ BOOK III . CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . any such local regulations. To be of any value...
... App . 2 See The Federalist , Nos . 11 , 12. See ante , § 1079 . Γ conducive to the same end . If Great Britain by 345 . 30 [ BOOK III . CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . any such local regulations. To be of any value...
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... Federalist itself , dealing with every shadow of objection against the Constitution , never once alludes to such a one ; but incidentally commends this power , as leading to bene- ficial results on all domestic interests.2 Every ...
... Federalist itself , dealing with every shadow of objection against the Constitution , never once alludes to such a one ; but incidentally commends this power , as leading to bene- ficial results on all domestic interests.2 Every ...
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Page 101 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 664 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Page 669 - The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Page 643 - 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 67 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Page 698 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 640 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, 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...
Page 605 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 4 - Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 125 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?