 | Advisory opinions - 1885 - 286 pages
...magistrates, therefore, are their trustees and agents, and at all times amenable to them. And that powers of government may be resumed by the people...whensoever it shall become necessary to their happiness." The chief justice, to-day, instead of drawing from these fountains, holds doctrines for which political... | |
 | Isaac Grant Thompson - Law reports, digests, etc - 1886 - 926 pages
...she joined hands with her sister States and pledged her faith to form a more perfect union, declared "that among other essential rights the liberty of...or modified by any authority of the United States." And immediately upon the formation of the Union by the ratification of the Constitution, we find Congress... | |
 | Howard Willis Preston - History - 1886 - 344 pages
...constitution, expressly declared, " that among other essential rights, the liberty of conscience and the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained...or modified by any authority of the United States," and from its extreme anxiety to guard these rights from every possible attack of sophistry and ambition,... | |
 | George Ticknor Curtis - Constitutional history - 1889 - 800 pages
...modified by the general government or any of its departments, except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes ; and that, among other essential rights, liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by any... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - Virginia - 1890 - 406 pages
...President, or any department, or officer of the United States, except in those instances in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes ;...or modified, by any authority of the United States. "With these impressions, with a solemn appeal to the searcher of hearts for the purity of our intentions,... | |
 | Hugh Blair Grigsby - Constitutions - 1890 - 410 pages
...in which power is given by the Constitution for those purposes ; and among other essential rights, liberty of conscience and of the press cannot be cancelled,...abridged, restrained, or modified by any authority of the United.States ; " AND WHEREAS, Any imperfections which may exist in the said Constitution ought rather... | |
 | Alexander Hamilton Stephens - United States - 1891 - 538 pages
...Constitution, expressly declared, that among other essential rights, " the liberty of conscience and the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained,...or modified by any authority of the United States," and from its extreme anxiety to guard these rights from every possible attack of sophistry and ambition,... | |
 | Thomas Valentine Cooper, Hector Tyndale Fenton - Political parties - 1892 - 930 pages
...that when that state by its convention ratified the Federal Constitution, it expressly declared, " That, among other essential rights, the liberty of...the press cannot be cancelled, abridged, restrained, 04 modified by any authority of the United States," and from its extreme anxiety to guard these rights... | |
 | John Witherspoon Du Bose - Confederate States of America - 1892 - 826 pages
...Massachusetts declared she was entering a " compact." Rhode Island declared, when acceding to the Union, that " the powers of government may be resumed by the people whensoever necessary to their happiness." South Carolina had attached to her ordinance of ratification of the... | |
 | Caleb William Loring - Kentucky and Virginia resolutions of 1798 - 1893 - 218 pages
...States may be resumed by them, whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression," and that " among other essential rights the liberty...or modified by any authority of the United States." It cannot be disputed that the convention, by this acceptance, understood and declared that there was... | |
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