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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... possesses all the powers which existed in the States before the adoption of the national Constitution , and which have always existed in the Parliament in England . It is for Congress to determine when its full power shall be brought ...
... possesses all the powers which existed in the States before the adoption of the national Constitution , and which have always existed in the Parliament in England . It is for Congress to determine when its full power shall be brought ...
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... possess the constitutional power to encourage and protect manufactures by appropriate regulations of commerce ; and that the opposite opinion is destructive of all the purposes of the Union , and would annihilate its value . § 1078 ...
... possess the constitutional power to encourage and protect manufactures by appropriate regulations of commerce ; and that the opposite opinion is destructive of all the purposes of the Union , and would annihilate its value . § 1078 ...
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... possess the power to encourage domestic manufactures by regulations of commerce , the power is annihilated for the whole nation . The States are deprived of it ; they have made a voluntary surrender of it ; and yet it exists not in the ...
... possess the power to encourage domestic manufactures by regulations of commerce , the power is annihilated for the whole nation . The States are deprived of it ; they have made a voluntary surrender of it ; and yet it exists not in the ...
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... possessed a full , undivided , and independent sovereignty . 4 Jeffer- son's Corresp . 478 . 3 Rawle on the Constitution , ch . 9 , p . 84. See also 1 Tuck . Black . Comm . App . 254 ; 1 Kent's Comm . Lect . 50 , p . 308 to 318. [ Under ...
... possessed a full , undivided , and independent sovereignty . 4 Jeffer- son's Corresp . 478 . 3 Rawle on the Constitution , ch . 9 , p . 84. See also 1 Tuck . Black . Comm . App . 254 ; 1 Kent's Comm . Lect . 50 , p . 308 to 318. [ Under ...
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... possessed the sole authority to exercise the power ; and the dissimilarity of the sys- tem in different States was generally admitted as a prominent defect , and laid the foundation of many delicate and intricate questions . As the free ...
... possessed the sole authority to exercise the power ; and the dissimilarity of the sys- tem in different States was generally admitted as a prominent defect , and laid the foundation of many delicate and intricate questions . As the free ...
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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?