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... defended with all the fervor of strong conviction and passionate attachment the prin- ciples he then intelligently espoused . The student was at first somewhat staggered by the mass of learn- ing pertaining to the science he had ...
... defended with all the fervor of strong conviction and passionate attachment the prin- ciples he then intelligently espoused . The student was at first somewhat staggered by the mass of learn- ing pertaining to the science he had ...
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... defend itself , its laws , and its property . It could suppress insurrections , fight battles , con- quer armies , disperse hostile combinations , and punish any or all of its enemies . It could meet , repel , and subdue all those who ...
... defend itself , its laws , and its property . It could suppress insurrections , fight battles , con- quer armies , disperse hostile combinations , and punish any or all of its enemies . It could meet , repel , and subdue all those who ...
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... defended as it should be . It is a thing of the last importance that it should be maintained if all the power of this ... defend the public property - to resist an assailing force which unlawfully attempts to drive out the troops of the ...
... defended as it should be . It is a thing of the last importance that it should be maintained if all the power of this ... defend the public property - to resist an assailing force which unlawfully attempts to drive out the troops of the ...
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... defend the Constitution , and see the laws faithfully executed . " The fact that he pledged himself in any such way can not be true . The commissioners , no doubt , have been so informed . But there must be some mistake about it . It ...
... defend the Constitution , and see the laws faithfully executed . " The fact that he pledged himself in any such way can not be true . The commissioners , no doubt , have been so informed . But there must be some mistake about it . It ...
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... defend himself to the last extremity . " " For nearly a month the man - of - war Brooklyn lay at Fortress Monroe awaiting the proper moment to take on board three hundred disciplined troops , with provisions and munitions of war , to be ...
... defend himself to the last extremity . " " For nearly a month the man - of - war Brooklyn lay at Fortress Monroe awaiting the proper moment to take on board three hundred disciplined troops , with provisions and munitions of war , to be ...
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Page 76 - Gratiano speaks an infinite deal of nothing, more than any man in all Venice. His reasons are as two grains of wheat hid in two bushels of chaff : you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search.
Page 532 - Gird up thy loins now like a man ; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto Me.
Page 618 - We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement ; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us : for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves...
Page 233 - Kansas ; for the reason, that the sovereignty of a Territory remains in abeyance, suspended in the United States, in trust for the people, until they shall be admitted into the Union as a state.
Page 390 - For our country's sake, and for the sake of republican liberty, it is our earnest wish that your example may be the guide of your successors ; and thus, after being the ornament and safeguard of the present age, become the patrimony of our descendants.
Page 224 - It has been solemnly adjudged by the highest judicial tribunal known to our laws that slavery exists in Kansas by virtue of the Constitution of the United States. Kansas is therefore at this moment as much a slave State as Georgia or South Carolina.
Page 228 - no person shall be deprived of his property except by due process of law,' and that ' private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
Page 228 - Amendment which provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law; and that private property shall not be taken for public use without just compensation.
Page 305 - That the present deplorable civil war has been forced upon the country by the disunionists of the Southern States now in revolt against the constitutional Government and in arms around the capital...
Page 235 - And if Congress itself cannot do this— if it is beyond the powers conferred on the Federal Government — it will be admitted, we presume, that it could not authorize a territorial government to exercise them. It could confer no power on any local government, established by its authority, to violate the provisions of the Constitution.