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... propriety or utility of such an altercation ; for whether we assign the disputed papers to the one or to the other , they are all admitted to be genuine , and there will still remain to either of these gentlemen an unquestioned number ...
... propriety or utility of such an altercation ; for whether we assign the disputed papers to the one or to the other , they are all admitted to be genuine , and there will still remain to either of these gentlemen an unquestioned number ...
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... propriety , be regarded as the period when that decision is to be made ; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may , in this view , de- serve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind . This idea , by adding the ...
... propriety , be regarded as the period when that decision is to be made ; and a wrong election of the part we shall act may , in this view , de- serve to be considered as the general misfortune of mankind . This idea , by adding the ...
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... propriety of their taking a very comprehensive , as well as a very serious , view of it , must be evident . Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of gov- ernment ; and it is equally undeniable , that whenever and ...
... propriety of their taking a very comprehensive , as well as a very serious , view of it , must be evident . Nothing is more certain than the indispensable necessity of gov- ernment ; and it is equally undeniable , that whenever and ...
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... propriety , therefore , or for what good purposes , are attempts at this particular period made , by some men , to depreciate the importance of the union ? Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one ...
... propriety , therefore , or for what good purposes , are attempts at this particular period made , by some men , to depreciate the importance of the union ? Or why is it suggested that three or four confederacies would be better than one ...
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... propriety be made to a case which has lately happened among ourselves . If SHAYS had not been a desperate debtor , it is much to be doubted whether Massa- chusetts would have been plunged into a civil war . But notwithstanding the ...
... propriety be made to a case which has lately happened among ourselves . If SHAYS had not been a desperate debtor , it is much to be doubted whether Massa- chusetts would have been plunged into a civil war . But notwithstanding the ...
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Page 461 - For the more convenient management of the general interests of the United States, delegates shall be annually appointed, in such manner as the legislature of each state shall direct...
Page 462 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.
Page 462 - 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. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states within the time agreed upon by the united states in congress assembled.
Page 464 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated
Page 464 - ... place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States, in Congress assembled. But if the United States, in Congress assembled, shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 225 - 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.
Page 461 - Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress...
Page 463 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants, or either of them, being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed...
Page 464 - ... welfare of the United States or any of them; nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a...
Page 460 - Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia...