A Report of the Whole Trial of Gen. Michael Bright, and Others, Before Washington & Peters in the Circuit Court of the United States in and for the District of Pennsylvania in the Third Circuit, on an Indictment for Obstructing, Resisting, and Opposing the Execution of the Writ of Arrest, Issued Out of the District Court of Pennsylvania, in the Case of Gideon Olmstead and Others Against the Surviving Executrices of David Rittenhouse, Deceased |
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... established with a jury , under such qualifications , as to the respective legislatures should seem expedient . That the said court of appeals of the United States , on the fifteenth day of December , one thousand seven hundred and ...
... established with a jury , under such qualifications , as to the respective legislatures should seem expedient . That the said court of appeals of the United States , on the fifteenth day of December , one thousand seven hundred and ...
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... established and administered by the people themselves , can possess sufficient energy for its own preservation ; -whether the republican representative system is constructed of materials fitted for stability and duration , and whether ...
... established and administered by the people themselves , can possess sufficient energy for its own preservation ; -whether the republican representative system is constructed of materials fitted for stability and duration , and whether ...
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... established the federal constitution , in the year 1787 , for their national government ; and , subject to the plighted faith of that compact , the people of Pennsylvania , acting for themselves alone , ordained and established the ...
... established the federal constitution , in the year 1787 , for their national government ; and , subject to the plighted faith of that compact , the people of Pennsylvania , acting for themselves alone , ordained and established the ...
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... established by con- gress , which having no authority to determine it , its sen- tence , or decree was a nullity , and could not therefore be enforced by the District Court . 2dly , Because it appears from the facts in the case that the ...
... established by con- gress , which having no authority to determine it , its sen- tence , or decree was a nullity , and could not therefore be enforced by the District Court . 2dly , Because it appears from the facts in the case that the ...
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... established is this principle , that I think I may defy the best read lawyer at the bar , to produce a single in- stance at common law of an appeal from the verdict of a jury . When a jury proceeds to try a cause in an inferior court ...
... established is this principle , that I think I may defy the best read lawyer at the bar , to produce a single in- stance at common law of an appeal from the verdict of a jury . When a jury proceeds to try a cause in an inferior court ...
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Page 2 - An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the times therein mentioned." And also to the act, entitled " An Act supplementary to an Act, entitled, " An Act for the encouragement of learning, by securing the copies of maps, charts, and books, to the authors and proprietors of such copies during the time therein mentioned," and extending the benefits thereof to the arts of designing, engraving, and...
Page 124 - ... whenever it may be necessary in the judgment of the President to use the military force hereby directed to be called forth, the President shall forthwith and previous thereto, by proclamation, command such insurgents to disperse and retire peaceably to their respective abodes within a limited time...
Page 135 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 23 - It is obviously impracticable, in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all.
Page 54 - States shall be divided or appropriated.. ..of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace... .appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 77 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
Page 215 - if the legislatures of the several States may, at will, annul the judgments of the courts of the United States, and destroy the rights acquired under those judgments, the Constitution itself becomes a solemn mockery.
Page 23 - It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several States as to their situation, extent, habits and particular interests.
Page 219 - Since, then, the state of Pennsylvania had neither possession of, nor right to, the property on which the sentence of the district court was pronounced, and since the suit was neither commenced nor prosecuted against that state, there remains no pretext for the allegation that the case is within that amendment of the constitution which has been cited ; and consequently, the state of Pennsylvania can possess no constitutional right to resist the legal process which may be directed in this cause.
Page 138 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective, states, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights and properties, which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects...