| Benson John Lossing - Presidents - 1855 - 714 pages
...constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way in which the constitution designates. But let there be...transient benefit which the use can at any time yield. Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable... | |
| Aaron Bancroft - 1855 - 464 pages
...modification of the constitutional powers be-in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment, in the way which the Constitution designates : but let there be no change by usurpp.tion ; f~.r though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary... | |
| Almanacs - 1906 - 698 pages
...let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be uo change by usurpation; for though this, in one instance,...weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The preceden must always greatly overbalance, in permanent evil, und partial or transient benefit which... | |
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