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... stand - let the advantage of it be fully enjoyed . The Union is itself too full of benefits to be hazarded in propositions for changing its original basis . I go for the Constitution as it is . But I am resolved not to submit in silence ...
... stand - let the advantage of it be fully enjoyed . The Union is itself too full of benefits to be hazarded in propositions for changing its original basis . I go for the Constitution as it is . But I am resolved not to submit in silence ...
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... standing , and said as he entered the lobby , ' By God , I would have given 500 guineas for a single vote : ' for one vote would have negatived the resolution . Mr. Henry left the town that evening ; and the next morning before the ...
... standing , and said as he entered the lobby , ' By God , I would have given 500 guineas for a single vote : ' for one vote would have negatived the resolution . Mr. Henry left the town that evening ; and the next morning before the ...
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... stands unrebuked by the Southern press ? And speak frankly on the point as to the standing of the South as to its literature in comparison with the other sections of this country . Very truly , ( Miss ) C. T. A. Duffy , Atlanta , Ga ...
... stands unrebuked by the Southern press ? And speak frankly on the point as to the standing of the South as to its literature in comparison with the other sections of this country . Very truly , ( Miss ) C. T. A. Duffy , Atlanta , Ga ...
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... standing witness to the equality of the States . Early in the Convention Mr. Randolph introduced the follow- ing resolution : " Resolved that it is the opinion of this Commit- tee that a National Government ought to be established ...
... standing witness to the equality of the States . Early in the Convention Mr. Randolph introduced the follow- ing resolution : " Resolved that it is the opinion of this Commit- tee that a National Government ought to be established ...
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... stands in the solemn form of a compact among the States , can be superseded without the uanimous consent of the parties to it ? " He answers his own question thus : " By re- curring to the absolute necessity of the case ; to the great ...
... stands in the solemn form of a compact among the States , can be superseded without the uanimous consent of the parties to it ? " He answers his own question thus : " By re- curring to the absolute necessity of the case ; to the great ...
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Page 74 - Do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the Constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whenever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression...
Page 409 - I would save the Union. I would save it the shortest way under the Constitution. The sooner the national authority can be restored, the nearer the Union will be ' the Union as it was.' If there be those who would not save the Union unless they could at the same time destroy slavery, I do not agree with them. My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery.
Page 315 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 205 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Page 309 - The Union is much older than the Constitution. It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 439 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void, and that acts of violence within any State or States against the authority of the United States are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 358 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 471 - ... there's a divinity that shapes our ends, rough hew them how we will.
Page 410 - That on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any state, or designated part of a state, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward and forever free...
Page 55 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.