Works of Henry Clay: Speeches, ed. by Calvin ColtonHenry Clay Publishing Company, 1897 |
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... duty of the grantor to have expressed himself in plain and in- telligible terms . This is the doctrine , not of Coke only ( whose dicta I admit have nothing to do with the question ) , but of the code of universal law . The doctrine is ...
... duty of the grantor to have expressed himself in plain and in- telligible terms . This is the doctrine , not of Coke only ( whose dicta I admit have nothing to do with the question ) , but of the code of universal law . The doctrine is ...
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... duty to attend to the just remonstrance of France , against American citizens ' supplying the rebels with the means of resisting her power . I am not , sir , in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest . But I must be permitted , in ...
... duty to attend to the just remonstrance of France , against American citizens ' supplying the rebels with the means of resisting her power . I am not , sir , in favor of cherishing the passion of conquest . But I must be permitted , in ...
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... duty , nor take his bond ; nor , if the bond is not paid , coerce the payment by distress or otherwise . In fact , it has no active agency whatever in the collection . Its operation is merely passive ; that is , if the obligor , after ...
... duty , nor take his bond ; nor , if the bond is not paid , coerce the payment by distress or otherwise . In fact , it has no active agency whatever in the collection . Its operation is merely passive ; that is , if the obligor , after ...
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... duty , at all hazards . What ! shall it be said , that our amor patriæ is located at these desks ; that we pusillanimously cling to our seats here , rather than boldly vindicate the most inestimable rights of the country ? While the ...
... duty , at all hazards . What ! shall it be said , that our amor patriæ is located at these desks ; that we pusillanimously cling to our seats here , rather than boldly vindicate the most inestimable rights of the country ? While the ...
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... duty . When the power to provide a navy was confided to Congress , it must have been the intention of the Convention to submit only to the discretion of that body the period when that power should be exercised . That period had , in his ...
... duty . When the power to provide a navy was confided to Congress , it must have been the intention of the Convention to submit only to the discretion of that body the period when that power should be exercised . That period had , in his ...
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Страница 590 - Congress of the United States or the President of the United States, with intent to defame the said government or either house of the said Congress or the said President, or to bring them or either of them into contempt or disrepute, or to excite against them, or either or any of them, the hatred of the good people of the United States...
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Страница 590 - ... the hatred of the good people of the United States, or to stir up sedition within the United States; or to excite any unlawful combinations therein, for opposing or resisting any law of the United States, or any act of the President of the United States, done in pursuance of any such law, or of the powers in him vested by the Constitution of the United States...
Страница 204 - Beware how you give a fatal sanction, in this infant period of our Republic, scarcely yet two-score years old, to military insubordination ! Remember that Greece had her Alexander, Rome her Caesar, England her Cromwell, France her Bonaparte; and that, if we would escape the rock on which they split, we must avoid their errors.
Страница 402 - ... that in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
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Страница 120 - The Constitution gives to Congress power to provide for calling out the militia to execute the laws of the Union, to suppress insurrections, and to repel invasions ; and in no other cases.
Страница 591 - ... resist, oppose, or defeat any such law or act, or to aid, encourage or abet any hostile designs of any foreign nation against the United States, their people or government, then such person, being thereof convicted before any court of the United States having jurisdiction thereof, shall be punished by a fine not exceeding two thousand dollars, and by imprisonment not exceeding two years.