 | George Washington Bacon - Confederate States of America - 1863 - 122 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 to draw with precision the lino between those rights which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and, on the present... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1865 - 866 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 to draw with precision the line between those righto which must be surrendered and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion this... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1866 - 858 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...occasion this difficulty was increased by a difference amone the several States as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Constitutional law - 1866 - 296 pages
...safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest." "It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...increased by a difference among the several States [the parties about to enter into a new Union] as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular... | |
 | Political parties - 1906 - 474 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...precision the line between those rights, which must bo surrendered and those which may be reserved; and on tin. present occasion this difficulty was increased... | |
 | Edward Waterman Townsend - Constitutional history - 1906 - 332 pages
...preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as 311 well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult...with precision the line between those rights which mnst be surrendered and those which may be reserved; and on the present occasion this difficulty was... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 506 pages
...Congress, written as president of the convention which formed this compact, thus speaks on this subject : "It is at all times difficult to draw, with precision,...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests." The debates of that period will show that the effect of the slave votes upon the political influence... | |
 | Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1907 - 286 pages
...all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.". . . . " It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...increased by a difference among the several States [the parties about to enter into a new Union] as to their situation, extent, habits, and particular... | |
 | Robert Thomas Devlin - Constitutional law - 1908 - 946 pages
...precision the line between these rights and those which may be reserved ; and on the present occasion, the difficulty was increased, by a difference among the...particular interests. In all our deliberations on the subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true... | |
 | James William Latta - Secession - 1909 - 48 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...situation, extent, habits and particular interests. The word consolidate was well known and well understood at the time. It had a distinctive political... | |
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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... 
