A Brief Enquiry Into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States |
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... Confederation . Even here , however , he has fallen into some errors , and has ventured to express decisive and important opin- ions , without due warrant . The desire to make " the people of the United States " one consolidated nation ...
... Confederation . Even here , however , he has fallen into some errors , and has ventured to express decisive and important opin- ions , without due warrant . The desire to make " the people of the United States " one consolidated nation ...
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... confederation , was without any other right or authority than what was derived from the mere consent and acquiescence of the several States . In the ordinary business of that government de facto , which the occasion had called into ...
... confederation , was without any other right or authority than what was derived from the mere consent and acquiescence of the several States . In the ordinary business of that government de facto , which the occasion had called into ...
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... confederation congress had no " original powers , " except only for deliberation and advisement , and claimed no " sovereign authority " whatever . It was an occa- sional , and not a permanent body , or one renewable from time to time ...
... confederation congress had no " original powers , " except only for deliberation and advisement , and claimed no " sovereign authority " whatever . It was an occa- sional , and not a permanent body , or one renewable from time to time ...
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... confederation ; but if the powers of the federal government were less under those articles than before , it only proves that , however great its previous powers may have been , they were held at the will of the States , and were ...
... confederation ; but if the powers of the federal government were less under those articles than before , it only proves that , however great its previous powers may have been , they were held at the will of the States , and were ...
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... confederation . The result of that examination was , that con- gress before the confederation possessed , by the consent of the people of the United States , sovereign and supreme powers for national purposes ; and , among others , the ...
... confederation . The result of that examination was , that con- gress before the confederation possessed , by the consent of the people of the United States , sovereign and supreme powers for national purposes ; and , among others , the ...
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Page 45 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Page 56 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page 54 - 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.
Page 41 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Page 12 - That his majesty's subjects in these colonies owe the same allegiance to the crown of Great Britain, that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body the parliament of Great Britain.
Page 51 - We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution, for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
Page 99 - That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Page 26 - Friends, Countrymen, and Brethren — « By these, and by every other appellation that may designate the ties which bind us to each other, we entreat your serious attention to this our second attempt to prevent their dissolution.
Page 20 - Continent, to consult together on the present Circumstances of the Colonies, and the Difficulties to which they are and must be reduced, by the Operation of the Acts of Parliament...
Page 22 - America labors, by reason of the several acts of parliament that impose taxes or duties for raising a revenue, and lay unnecessary restraints and burdens on trade ; and of the statutes, parliamentary acts, and royal instructions, which make an invidious distinction between his majesty's subjects in Great Britain and America, with full power and authority to concert, agree to, and effectually prosecute such legal measures, as in the opinion of the said deputies, and of the deputies so to be assembled,...