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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... political and fanatical strife , become one of exceedingly difficult fulfillment . State legislation had virtually nullified the fugitive slave law in a majority of the free States , and the state of popular feeling against it in the ...
... political and fanatical strife , become one of exceedingly difficult fulfillment . State legislation had virtually nullified the fugitive slave law in a majority of the free States , and the state of popular feeling against it in the ...
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... political privileges . But Congress did not so provide . In 1790 they declared the punishment of treason to be death , and that there should be no forfeiture of estate , 2 Story on Const . , 179 , says : " The law of Congress punishes ...
... political privileges . But Congress did not so provide . In 1790 they declared the punishment of treason to be death , and that there should be no forfeiture of estate , 2 Story on Const . , 179 , says : " The law of Congress punishes ...
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... political rights were to be forfeited ; and it is too late to at- tempt to do so now , even by constitutional amendment . The reconstruction committee do not pretend to claim the forfeiture of civil and political rights by virtue of the ...
... political rights were to be forfeited ; and it is too late to at- tempt to do so now , even by constitutional amendment . The reconstruction committee do not pretend to claim the forfeiture of civil and political rights by virtue of the ...
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... political excitement we are in danger of losing sight of the cardinal principles of our American system of government . It would be unwise to rashly disturb that ad- mirable adjustment of the balance of powers between the Federal and ...
... political excitement we are in danger of losing sight of the cardinal principles of our American system of government . It would be unwise to rashly disturb that ad- mirable adjustment of the balance of powers between the Federal and ...
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... political party which had recently succeeded in the choice of a Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States . It was the serious apprehension that if the republican organization , as then constituted , should succeed to power ...
... political party which had recently succeeded in the choice of a Presi- dent and Vice President of the United States . It was the serious apprehension that if the republican organization , as then constituted , should succeed to power ...
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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...