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... legislative bodies , or in addresses to the public , as well as in contributions to the press ; and he can now only ask that the opinions and principles herein expressed be taken as his maturer conceptions , since they flowed from a ...
... legislative bodies , or in addresses to the public , as well as in contributions to the press ; and he can now only ask that the opinions and principles herein expressed be taken as his maturer conceptions , since they flowed from a ...
Page 39
... legislative chambers , the senate and the house - that there must be more than a distinction as to age or the electing con- stituency to make a safe , conjunctive , two - bodied , legislative power . They knew that it needed one body to ...
... legislative chambers , the senate and the house - that there must be more than a distinction as to age or the electing con- stituency to make a safe , conjunctive , two - bodied , legislative power . They knew that it needed one body to ...
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... Legislative bodies cannot legislate well upon these details , so that we have not only too much , but very bad legislation , and all because we will imitate old English ways . America has by a similar strange combination of circum ...
... Legislative bodies cannot legislate well upon these details , so that we have not only too much , but very bad legislation , and all because we will imitate old English ways . America has by a similar strange combination of circum ...
Page 68
... legislative body ; but who was then free of the folly that accepted the law - making power as the only branch of gov- ernment that was safe in itself , and needed only powers and no restraints ? There was also in the articles too much ...
... legislative body ; but who was then free of the folly that accepted the law - making power as the only branch of gov- ernment that was safe in itself , and needed only powers and no restraints ? There was also in the articles too much ...
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... legislative body in the confederacy , it could be only a states - house ; but it is not so clear , why the delegates - nomen et omen - should be subject to recall . That reserved right of state legislatures destroyed both the legisla ...
... legislative body in the confederacy , it could be only a states - house ; but it is not so clear , why the delegates - nomen et omen - should be subject to recall . That reserved right of state legislatures destroyed both the legisla ...
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Page 570 - My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it...
Page 287 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 369 - The credit of the State shall not, in any manner, be given or loaned to, or in aid of, any individual, association or corporation...
Page 590 - The body politic is formed by a voluntary association of individuals: it is a social compact, by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 341 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Page 57 - And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 279 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public Protestant teachers of piety, religion, and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Page 316 - The duties of all public officers are, or, at least, admit of being made, so plain and simple, that men of intelligence may readily qualify themselves for their performance...
Page 454 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite, not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts. One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown.
Page 93 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the union...