The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1750-1833. State sovereignty and slavery, 1889Callaghan, 1876 - Constitutional history |
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... President , to show you and my brother farmers what were the effects of anarchy , that you may see the reasons why I wish for good govern- ment . People , I say , took up arms ; and then if you went to speak to them , you had the musket ...
... President , to show you and my brother farmers what were the effects of anarchy , that you may see the reasons why I wish for good govern- ment . People , I say , took up arms ; and then if you went to speak to them , you had the musket ...
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... president's chair was an ascending or declin- ing one ; but now he had the satisfaction of knowing that it was a rising , not a setting , sun . This conviction proved ultimately to be correct ; but for the moment a firm confidence that ...
... president's chair was an ascending or declin- ing one ; but now he had the satisfaction of knowing that it was a rising , not a setting , sun . This conviction proved ultimately to be correct ; but for the moment a firm confidence that ...
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... president of the Confederate States , a position which he retained until the close of the war . A few years after the restoration of the Union , he published a comprehensive treatise , which is at once an emphatic reiteration and ...
... president of the Confederate States , a position which he retained until the close of the war . A few years after the restoration of the Union , he published a comprehensive treatise , which is at once an emphatic reiteration and ...
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... president , and Jefferson their recognized leader . The attempts at mediation had no effect but to post- pone the formal declaration of the war which as a matter of fact had been waged since 1791 between the two secre- taries as openly ...
... president , and Jefferson their recognized leader . The attempts at mediation had no effect but to post- pone the formal declaration of the war which as a matter of fact had been waged since 1791 between the two secre- taries as openly ...
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... president . The anti - Federalists did not permit the administration to remain a moment in doubt that they held fast to the maxim which declared mistrust of the government to be the cor- ner - stone of freedom . Wherever they found the ...
... president . The anti - Federalists did not permit the administration to remain a moment in doubt that they held fast to the maxim which declared mistrust of the government to be the cor- ner - stone of freedom . Wherever they found the ...
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Page 146 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.
Page 203 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Page 420 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs, America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Page 288 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 159 - Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...
Page 151 - ... the General Assembly doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid are unconstitutional ; — and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each for co-operating with this state, in maintaining unimpaired the authorities, rights, and liberties, reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Page 34 - 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 361 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 146 - ... that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its...
Page 9 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.