 | George Robertson - Kentucky - 1855 - 422 pages
...the difficulty was increased by a difference among ! States severally, but to the United States aŤ the several States as to their situation, extent,...interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we hi kept one nation — and the federal constitution wae adopted for the same American Republic, styled... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 476 pages
...preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult...deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in onr view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation... | |
 | Massachusetts. Convention - Constitutional history - 1856 - 470 pages
...preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circum.stanee,fas on the object to be obtained. 'It is at all times...which may be reserved ("and on the present occasion tin's difficulty was increased by a difference among the several states as to their situation, extent,... | |
 | J. B. Shurtleff - United States - 1857 - 210 pages
...preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult...which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved; and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was in-creased by a difference among the several... | |
 | J. B. Shurtleff - United States - 1857 - 210 pages
...precision the line between those rights which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved; and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all oui deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - Banks and banking - 1857 - 418 pages
...seemed for a long time insurmountable, and which was ultimately overcome by only numerous compromises. " To draw with precision the line between those rights...which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved, is at all times difficult," said the Convention ; " and on the present occasion this difficulty,"... | |
 | Alexander Bryan Johnson - History - 1857 - 420 pages
...for a long. time insurmountable, and which was ultimately overcome by only numerous compromises. " To draw with precision the line between those rights...which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved, is at all times difficult," said the Convention ; " and on the present occasion this difficulty,"... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1858 - 802 pages
...read one or two extracts from the letter of Washington, written after the constitution was framed : " It is at all times difficult to draw, with precision,...and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was m..J 24 25 Лиси, 1626.] Amendment of the Constitution. [H. OK R. creteed by a difference among... | |
 | Maurice A. Richter - Local government - 1859 - 338 pages
...preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. " It is at all times...deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in oqr view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of... | |
 | Samuel M. Wolfe - Slavery - 1860 - 286 pages
...preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstances as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult...deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our viev that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of... | |
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Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision... 
