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... popular sovereignty , are impressed with the idea that popular majorities are invested with supreme sovereignty . They suppose , in order to reconcile the Constitution with this idea , that it is the creature of a popular majority , and ...
... popular sovereignty , are impressed with the idea that popular majorities are invested with supreme sovereignty . They suppose , in order to reconcile the Constitution with this idea , that it is the creature of a popular majority , and ...
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... popular excitement , and liable to be agitated , till , like a torrent that has burst its natural limits , it may overleap the bounds assigned it , and probably made more impetuous by the strong current of public favor , it may sweep in ...
... popular excitement , and liable to be agitated , till , like a torrent that has burst its natural limits , it may overleap the bounds assigned it , and probably made more impetuous by the strong current of public favor , it may sweep in ...
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... popularity , and to guard against the evil consequences of excitement , and speedy and precipitate legislation , prompted by the passion and party intrigue , which it seems has ever governed single legislative assemblies . In a great ...
... popularity , and to guard against the evil consequences of excitement , and speedy and precipitate legislation , prompted by the passion and party intrigue , which it seems has ever governed single legislative assemblies . In a great ...
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... popular influence in that government has altogether counteracted this power , and made the ap- proval a matter of course . To the House of Repre- sentatives is also confided the important power of im- peachment ; it is thus constituted ...
... popular influence in that government has altogether counteracted this power , and made the ap- proval a matter of course . To the House of Repre- sentatives is also confided the important power of im- peachment ; it is thus constituted ...
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... popular excitement . For while it is calcu- lated to infuse into it , biennially , a proper degree of popular influence , it secures us against the mutability and vacillation in legislation , incident to a change of legislators , so ...
... popular excitement . For while it is calcu- lated to infuse into it , biennially , a proper degree of popular influence , it secures us against the mutability and vacillation in legislation , incident to a change of legislators , so ...
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Page 9 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 11 - ... united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be infested by pirates, in which case vessels of war may be fitted out for that occasion, and kept so long as the danger shall continue, or until the united states in congress assembled shall determine otherwise.
Page 16 - ... of the said articles of confederation and perpetual union, and all and singular the matters and things therein contained: and we do further solemnly plight and engage the faith of our respective constituents, that they shall abide by the determinations of the United States in congress assembled, on all questions, which by the said confederation are submitted to them; and that the articles thereof shall be inviolably observed by the states we respectively represent, and that the union shall be...
Page 15 - ... or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state, on any question, shall be entered on the journal, when it is desired by any delegate ; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page 13 - ... defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State where...
Page 11 - ... of establishing rules for deciding, in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated...
Page 14 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the defense and welfare of the United States...
Page 15 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 13 - ... take an oath, to be administered by one of the judges of the supreme or superior court of the state, where the cause shall be tried, 'well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of reward :' provided, also, that no state shall be deprived of territory for the benefit of the United States.
Page 8 - WHEREAS the delegates of the United States of America in Congress assembled did on the fifteenth day of November in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and seventy-seven, and in the second year of the independence of America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,...