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... United States , reveals a marked power of investi- gation , a wealth of knowledge , a force of logic , and a vigor of statement that make these papers notable examples of controversial political argument ; and they remain today the ...
... United States , reveals a marked power of investi- gation , a wealth of knowledge , a force of logic , and a vigor of statement that make these papers notable examples of controversial political argument ; and they remain today the ...
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... United States . " It was known that the Presi- dent objected to the name " Bank , " and had suggested call- ing whatever institution might be created a " Fiscal Agent , " or " Fiscal Corporation . " Hence it was named " Fiscal Bank " in ...
... United States . " It was known that the Presi- dent objected to the name " Bank , " and had suggested call- ing whatever institution might be created a " Fiscal Agent , " or " Fiscal Corporation . " Hence it was named " Fiscal Bank " in ...
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... United States had ventured to veto a bill on the ground of expediency alone , where there were no constitutional objections , that the subject of taxation be- longed peculiarly to the immediate representatives of the people and was the ...
... United States had ventured to veto a bill on the ground of expediency alone , where there were no constitutional objections , that the subject of taxation be- longed peculiarly to the immediate representatives of the people and was the ...
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... United States . President Jackson sent to the Senate a protest against the right of the Senate to ex- press any opinion censuring his public course , and that body after long discussion adopted three resolutions . The first denied the ...
... United States . President Jackson sent to the Senate a protest against the right of the Senate to ex- press any opinion censuring his public course , and that body after long discussion adopted three resolutions . The first denied the ...
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... United States enjoyed imposed upon them duties of the most solemn and weighty character . " They stand upon the same platform with the highest in the land . The destiny of the country is in their hands . The sovereign power resides in ...
... United States enjoyed imposed upon them duties of the most solemn and weighty character . " They stand upon the same platform with the highest in the land . The destiny of the country is in their hands . The sovereign power resides in ...
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Page 464 - This piratical warfare, the opprobrium of INFIDEL powers, is the warfare of the CHRISTIAN king of Great Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce.
Page 449 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 396 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts, is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations ; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.
Page 128 - The State of California is an inseparable part of the American Union, and the Constitution of the United States is the supreme law of the land.
Page 184 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts...
Page 298 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 76 - ... that he will support the Constitution of the United States, and that he doth absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whatever, and particularly, by name, the prince, potentate, state, or sovereignty whereof he was before a citizen or subject...
Page 396 - ... characterizing parties by geographical discriminations Northern and Southern, Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 241 - I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility...
Page 82 - They will bring with them the principles of the governments they leave, imbibed in their early youth ; or, if able to throw them off, it will be in exchange for an unbounded licentiousness, passing, as is usual, from one extreme to another. It would be a miracle were they to stop precisely at the point of temperate liberty.