Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Volume 1 |
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... never was designed for trials of logical skill or visionary speculation . The reader will sometimes find the same train of reasoning brought before him in different parts of these Commentaries . It was indispensable to do so , unless ...
... never was designed for trials of logical skill or visionary speculation . The reader will sometimes find the same train of reasoning brought before him in different parts of these Commentaries . It was indispensable to do so , unless ...
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... never been ob- jected to this , or to any other similar grant , that the title as well as possession was in the Indians when it was made , and that it passed nothing on that account . § 20. " These various patents cannot be considered ...
... never been ob- jected to this , or to any other similar grant , that the title as well as possession was in the Indians when it was made , and that it passed nothing on that account . § 20. " These various patents cannot be considered ...
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... never been doubted , that either the United States or the several States had a clear title to all the lands within the boun- dary lines described in the treaty , subject only to the Indian right of occupancy , and that the exclusive ...
... never been doubted , that either the United States or the several States had a clear title to all the lands within the boun- dary lines described in the treaty , subject only to the Indian right of occupancy , and that the exclusive ...
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... never been questioned in our courts . It has been exer- cised uniformly over territory in possession of the Indians . The existence of this power must negative the existence of any right which may conflict with and control it . An ...
... never been questioned in our courts . It has been exer- cised uniformly over territory in possession of the Indians . The existence of this power must negative the existence of any right which may conflict with and control it . An ...
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... never lost sight of , but was ever afterwards cherished throughout America , as the dearest birthright of freemen . So acceptable was it to the people , and so indispen- sable to the real prosperity of the colony , that the council in ...
... never lost sight of , but was ever afterwards cherished throughout America , as the dearest birthright of freemen . So acceptable was it to the people , and so indispen- sable to the real prosperity of the colony , that the council in ...
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Page xxv - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Page xxiii - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Page 165 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective States...
Page 751 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
Page 30 - Having undertaken, for the glory of God, and advancement of the Christian faith and honor of our King and Country, a voyage to plant the first colony in the northern parts of Virginia...
Page 751 - My countrymen, one and all, think calmly and well upon this whole subject. Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time. If there be an object to hurry any of you in hot haste to a step which you would never take deliberately, that object will be frustrated by taking time; but no good object can be frustrated by it.
Page xix - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 163 - 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 734 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 137 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...