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... operation , and to the results to which they will lead in the present state of the country , than to their abstract correctness or falsity as general propositions . The principal exceptions which I shall make to this rule , will occur ...
... operation , and to the results to which they will lead in the present state of the country , than to their abstract correctness or falsity as general propositions . The principal exceptions which I shall make to this rule , will occur ...
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... operation of its powers , it changes its aspect when we contemplate it in rela- tion to the extent of its powers . The idea of a national government involves in it not only an authority over the individual citizens , but an indefinite ...
... operation of its powers , it changes its aspect when we contemplate it in rela- tion to the extent of its powers . The idea of a national government involves in it not only an authority over the individual citizens , but an indefinite ...
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... operation of the Federal Government , where- as Federal officers are not in any degree relied upon to keep in motion the wheels of the State governments . And as to the language of the clause of the Constitution which confers supremacy ...
... operation of the Federal Government , where- as Federal officers are not in any degree relied upon to keep in motion the wheels of the State governments . And as to the language of the clause of the Constitution which confers supremacy ...
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... Congress can alone reduce it to practical operation . Among the various modes of exercise of legisla- tive power none is more unequivocally condemned by the Constitution than that of passing acts of ttainder THE FUTURE . 63.
... Congress can alone reduce it to practical operation . Among the various modes of exercise of legisla- tive power none is more unequivocally condemned by the Constitution than that of passing acts of ttainder THE FUTURE . 63.
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... operations to the rules of civilized warfare , and partly for our own con- venience , and to increase the efficiency of our mili- tary operations . The necessity and convenience which led us to treat our adversaries as bellige- rents ...
... operations to the rules of civilized warfare , and partly for our own con- venience , and to increase the efficiency of our mili- tary operations . The necessity and convenience which led us to treat our adversaries as bellige- rents ...
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Page 315 - A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern; some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them...
Page 313 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you, in the most solemn manner, against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally.
Page 105 - I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States of America and Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy thereof, do hereby proclaim and declare that hereafter, as heretofore, the war will be prosecuted for the object of practically restoring the constitutional relation between the United States and each of the States and the people thereof in which States that relation is or may be suspended or disturbed.
Page 315 - If, in the opinion •of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance. in permanent evil, any partial or transient benefit which the use can...
Page 88 - ... that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States, but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States unimpaired; and that as soon as these objects are accomplished the war ought to cease.
Page 192 - Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty, each having taken the oath aforesaid and not having since violated it, and being a qualified voter by the election law of the state existing immediately before the so-called act of secession, and excluding all others, shall reestablish a state government which shall be republican, and in no wise contravening said oath, such shall be recognized as the true government of the state...
Page 191 - ... States and the Union of the States thereunder ; and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all...
Page 37 - If the new constitution be examined with accuracy and candor, it will be found that the change which it proposes, consists much less in the addition of NEW POWERS to the union, than in the invigoration of its ORIGINAL POWERS. The regulation of commerce, it is true, is a new power ; but that seems to be an addition which few oppose, and from which no apprehensions are entertained.
Page 39 - The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs; concern the lives, liberties,...
Page 44 - The people, inhabiting the territory formerly called the Province of Massachusetts Bay, do hereby solemnly and mutually agree with each other, to form themselves into a free, sovereign, and independent body politic or state, by the name of THE COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS.