Great Debates in American History: State rights (1798-1861); slavery (1858-1861)Marion Mills Miller Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 - Civil rights |
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... legislative proceedings may be traced ; the ephemeral effusions of temporary bodies , called together by the excitement of the occasion , may be hunted up- they have been hunted up . The opinions and votes of her public men , in and out ...
... legislative proceedings may be traced ; the ephemeral effusions of temporary bodies , called together by the excitement of the occasion , may be hunted up- they have been hunted up . The opinions and votes of her public men , in and out ...
Page 57
... legislative power . I must now beg to ask , sir , whence is this supposed right of the States derived ? Where do they find the power to inter- fere with the laws of the Union ? Sir , the opinion which the honorable gentleman maintains ...
... legislative power . I must now beg to ask , sir , whence is this supposed right of the States derived ? Where do they find the power to inter- fere with the laws of the Union ? Sir , the opinion which the honorable gentleman maintains ...
Page 85
... legislative functions ; and however they may in practice , as it is their duty to do , consult and prefer the in- terests of their particular constituents , when they come in con- flict with any other partial or local interest , yet it ...
... legislative functions ; and however they may in practice , as it is their duty to do , consult and prefer the in- terests of their particular constituents , when they come in con- flict with any other partial or local interest , yet it ...
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... legislation , ' he says , ' which you have to employ at this crisis is the precise amount of such enactments as may be necessary to render it utterly impossible to collect , within our limits , the duties imposed by the protective ...
... legislation , ' he says , ' which you have to employ at this crisis is the precise amount of such enactments as may be necessary to render it utterly impossible to collect , within our limits , the duties imposed by the protective ...
Page 93
... legislative enactment . Now I deny that Congress can deputize its legislative powers . If it may one , it may all ; and thus a majority here can , at their pleasure , change the very character of the Government . The President might ...
... legislative enactment . Now I deny that Congress can deputize its legislative powers . If it may one , it may all ; and thus a majority here can , at their pleasure , change the very character of the Government . The President might ...
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