 | United States. Congress Senate - Fugitive slave law of 1850 - 1850 - 142 pages
...spoke of it as " an unlimited and unbounded authority." What said Mr. Madison, in the " Federalist? " " The indispensable necessity of complete authority...seat of Government carries its own evidence with it." Here are the opinions of three of the fathers of the Republic ; of three of the most celebrated names... | |
 | William Henry Seward - United States - 1853 - 658 pages
...the power which it conferred. Mr. Madison thus describes it in the 43d number of the Federalist : " The indispensable necessity of complete authority...with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature in the Union — I might say of the world — by virtue of its general supremacy." Yes, sir, it is... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 722 pages
...emphatic, and peculiarly applicable to the question now before the House, that he would read the extract : "The ' indispensable necessity of complete authority...evidence • with it. It is a power exercised by every Legis•' lature of the Union, I might say of the world, ' by virtue of its general supremacy. Without... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1854 - 1092 pages
...are informed that the extract I am about to read is the production of the present Chief Magistrate. ' by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, •...authority might be insulted, ' and its proceedings be interrupted with impu' nity, but a dependence of the members of the ' General Government on the... | |
 | United States. Congress - Law - 1854 - 1032 pages
...are informed that the extract I am about to read is the production of the present Chief Magistrate. ' by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, •...authority might be insulted, ' and its proceedings be interrupted with impu1 nity, but a dependence of the members of the ' General Government on the... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1854 - 1036 pages
...are informed that the extract I am about to read is the production of the present Chief Magistrate. ' by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, • not only the public authority might be insulted, 1 and its proceedings be interrupted with impu' nity, but a dependence of the members of the 1 General... | |
 | JOSEPH B. VARNUM - 1854 - 130 pages
...of all European capitals, as being essential to bestow dignity and independence on the government. "Without it, not only the public authority might be insulted, and its proceedings be interrupted with impunity, but a dependence of the -members of the General Government on the State... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1855 - 768 pages
...conception of the true spirit of the Federal Constitution. " The indispensable necessity," says Mr. Madison, "of complete authority at the Seat of ' Government,...of the world, by virtue of its ' general supremacy. Mr. McLANE then proceeded to show the exercise of municipal powers by Congress, over ail objects, in... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 772 pages
...Magistrate. In considering the section of the constitution to which I have referred, this author says: " The indispensable necessity of complete authority...with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature in the Union, I might say, of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the... | |
 | United States. Congress, Thomas Hart Benton - Law - 1857 - 772 pages
...Magistrate. In considering the section of the constitution to which I have referred, this author says : " The indispensable necessity of complete authority...with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature in the Union, I might say, of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only the... | |
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The indispensable necessity of complete authority at the seat of government carries its own evidence with it. It is a power exercised by every legislature of the Union, I might say of the world, by virtue of its general supremacy. Without it, not only... 
