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... representatives of the people compose one branch of the national legislature . Commerce has been for ages the predominant pursuit of that country . Yet few nations have been more frequently engaged in war ; and the wars in which that ...
... representatives of the people compose one branch of the national legislature . Commerce has been for ages the predominant pursuit of that country . Yet few nations have been more frequently engaged in war ; and the wars in which that ...
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... representatives and delegates : they are solid conclusions , drawn from the natural and necessary pro- gress of human affairs . It may perhaps be asked , by way of objection , why did not standing armies spring up out of the contentions ...
... representatives and delegates : they are solid conclusions , drawn from the natural and necessary pro- gress of human affairs . It may perhaps be asked , by way of objection , why did not standing armies spring up out of the contentions ...
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... representatives of the people , will be more consonant to the public good than if pro- nounced by the people themselves , convened for the purpose . On the other hand the effect may be inverted . Men of factious tem- pers , of local ...
... representatives of the people , will be more consonant to the public good than if pro- nounced by the people themselves , convened for the purpose . On the other hand the effect may be inverted . Men of factious tem- pers , of local ...
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... representative too little acquainted with all their local cir- cumstances and lesser interests ; as by reducing it ... representatives , whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices , and to ...
... representative too little acquainted with all their local cir- cumstances and lesser interests ; as by reducing it ... representatives , whose enlightened views and virtuous sentiments render them superior to local prejudices , and to ...
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... representatives and agents . A democracy , consequently , must be confined to a small spot . A republic may be extended over a large region . To this accidental source of the error , may be added the arti- fice of some celebrated ...
... representatives and agents . A democracy , consequently , must be confined to a small spot . A republic may be extended over a large region . To this accidental source of the error , may be added the arti- fice of some celebrated ...
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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...