The Works of Alexander Hamilton, Volume 9G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1886 - Finance |
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... Less liability to sedition against federal government - Less likely to require force than that proposed by the opposition - Reasons for this - The laws of the Union , so far as they go , to be the supreme law of the land . No. XXVIII ...
... Less liability to sedition against federal government - Less likely to require force than that proposed by the opposition - Reasons for this - The laws of the Union , so far as they go , to be the supreme law of the land . No. XXVIII ...
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... less at least , if not respectable - the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears . So numer- ous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment , that we , upon many ...
... less at least , if not respectable - the honest errors of minds led astray by preconceived jealousies and fears . So numer- ous indeed and so powerful are the causes which serve to give a false bias to the judgment , that we , upon many ...
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... less impressed with the importance of national credit , or because their citizens have little , if any , immediate interest in the question , feel an indifference , if not a repugnance , to the payment of the domestic debt at any rate ...
... less impressed with the importance of national credit , or because their citizens have little , if any , immediate interest in the question , feel an indifference , if not a repugnance , to the payment of the domestic debt at any rate ...
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... less folly to abolish liberty , which is essential to political life , because it nourishes faction , than it would be to wish the annihilation of air , which is essential to animal life , because it imparts to fire its destructive ...
... less folly to abolish liberty , which is essential to political life , because it nourishes faction , than it would be to wish the annihilation of air , which is essential to animal life , because it imparts to fire its destructive ...
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... less than a majority , relief is sup- plied by the republican principle , which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote . It may clog the administration , it may convulse the society ; but it will be unable to ...
... less than a majority , relief is sup- plied by the republican principle , which enables the majority to defeat its sinister views by regular vote . It may clog the administration , it may convulse the society ; but it will be unable to ...
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Page 560 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances 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 557 - Congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury which shall be supplied by the several states in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint.
Page 558 - ... 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 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 559 - ... all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated
Page 560 - ... 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 perpetual.
Page 154 - That the raising or keeping a standing army within the kingdom in time of peace, unless it be with consent of parliament, is against law.
Page 566 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Page 556 - Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind.
Page 571 - 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. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Page 304 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them : the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them : the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them: to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.