Report of the Joint Committee on Federal Relations: (to Whom was Referred a Document Transmitted by the Secretary of State of the U.S., to the Executive of the State of Maryland, Containing a Copy of a Resolution of Congress, Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution of the United States), with Accompanying ResolutionsHenry A. Lucas, printer, 1867 - 26 страница |
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... Committee on Federal Relations. To understand the nature and object of the proposed amendment , it is necessary to know its history and the ... Reconstruction , charged to inquire into the condi- tion of the States which had formed the so - ...
... Committee on Federal Relations. To understand the nature and object of the proposed amendment , it is necessary to know its history and the ... Reconstruction , charged to inquire into the condi- tion of the States which had formed the so - ...
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... committee reported amendments to the Constitution , and two bills constituting their plan of reconstruction . One of the bills recited the amendment proposed , and enacted that on the ratification by any of the States lately in ...
... committee reported amendments to the Constitution , and two bills constituting their plan of reconstruction . One of the bills recited the amendment proposed , and enacted that on the ratification by any of the States lately in ...
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... Reconstruction Committee , and the proceed- ings of Congress , show that from the two houses of Congress which proposed this amendment , the Senators and Represen- tatives of eleven States were forcibly excluded . Congress de- fend ...
... Reconstruction Committee , and the proceed- ings of Congress , show that from the two houses of Congress which proposed this amendment , the Senators and Represen- tatives of eleven States were forcibly excluded . Congress de- fend ...
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... reconstruction committee do not pretend to claim the forfeiture of civil and political rights by virtue of the Consti- tution and laws of the United States . For though rather in- consistently , they call the people of the late ...
... reconstruction committee do not pretend to claim the forfeiture of civil and political rights by virtue of the Consti- tution and laws of the United States . For though rather in- consistently , they call the people of the late ...
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... Committee on Federal Relations. in a hopeless minority " in the halls of Congress , " the inci- dent is small compared with the sum total of their losses . It would be inadmissible to question the sincerity of the Reconstruction Committee ...
... Committee on Federal Relations. in a hopeless minority " in the halls of Congress , " the inci- dent is small compared with the sum total of their losses . It would be inadmissible to question the sincerity of the Reconstruction Committee ...
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Страница 12 - Congress, banishing all feelings of mere passion or resentment, will recollect only its duty to the whole country; that this war is not waged upon our part in any spirit of oppression, nor for any purpose of conquest or subjugation, nor purpose of overthrowing or interfering with the rights or established institutions of those States ; but to defend and maintain the supremacy of the Constitution and to preserve the Union, with all the dignity, equality, and rights of the several States, unimpaired;...
Страница 3 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Страница 23 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Страница 25 - ... the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American people.
Страница 23 - ... that to this compact each State acceded, as a State, and is an integral party; that this government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Страница 8 - The conclusion of your committee therefore is that the so-called Confederate States are not, at present, entitled to representation in the Congress of the United States...
Страница 21 - State toward the General Government, to fly to open resistance upon every infraction of the Constitution. The mode and the energy of the opposition should always conform to the nature of the violation, the intention of...
Страница 26 - But neither the United States nor any State shall assume or pay any debt or obligation incurred in aid of- insurrection or rebellion against the United States, or any claim for the loss or emancipation of any slave ; but all such debts, obligations, and claims, shall be held illegal and void. SEC. 5. The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.
Страница 21 - In this whole series of devices and measures for raising men, this convention discern a total disregard for the constitution, and a disposition to violate its provisions, demanding from the individual states a firm and decided opposition.
Страница 23 - That the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on tHe principle of unlimited submission to their General Government...