A Vindication of the Recent and Prevailing Policy of the State of Georgia, Both in Reference to Its Internal Affairs, and Its Relations with the General Government, in Two Series of Essays, Originally Published in the "Columbian Centinel" Under the Signature of "Atticus".: To which is Now Prefixed a 'prefatory Address'O.P. Shaw, 1827 - 82 страница |
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... moral report of whole communities be sacred . States have characters as well as men , and there is something in the social and political reputation of a government , though it may be even a petty state government , that is extremely ...
... moral report of whole communities be sacred . States have characters as well as men , and there is something in the social and political reputation of a government , though it may be even a petty state government , that is extremely ...
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... moral depravity , herete- fore unequalled in the strifes of human rivalry . All this , however , might be passed over as ever incident to the wild and irregular sallies of party - where power is their God and principle is but a name ...
... moral depravity , herete- fore unequalled in the strifes of human rivalry . All this , however , might be passed over as ever incident to the wild and irregular sallies of party - where power is their God and principle is but a name ...
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... moral agent when strongly and steadily directed to any purpose . It is superior to the force of law , for many are the instances where pub- lic statutes cannot be enforced contrary to its dictates . If then this pow- erful instrument ...
... moral agent when strongly and steadily directed to any purpose . It is superior to the force of law , for many are the instances where pub- lic statutes cannot be enforced contrary to its dictates . If then this pow- erful instrument ...
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... moral societies to translate them , as they say , to a country where they will be better off , and where they can assert and maintain the dignity of their nature , live under e- qual laws , enjoy the privileges of government and the ...
... moral societies to translate them , as they say , to a country where they will be better off , and where they can assert and maintain the dignity of their nature , live under e- qual laws , enjoy the privileges of government and the ...
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... MORAL force ; it was strength and not intelligence needed and sought by the States . Any thing more than this was never intended . To have required any thing more than this , apart from the inconsistency of the claim , would have been ...
... MORAL force ; it was strength and not intelligence needed and sought by the States . Any thing more than this was never intended . To have required any thing more than this , apart from the inconsistency of the claim , would have been ...
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Страница 53 - That the 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 53 - Government, as resulting from the compact, to which the states are parties; as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact ; as no farther valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact, and 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...
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Страница 68 - ... well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favour affection or hope of reward:" provided also that no state shall be deprived of territory for the- benefit of the united states.
Страница 61 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Страница 63 - States; subject, however, to such alterations and additions as the said courts, respectively, shall, in their discretion, deem expedient, or to such regulations as the supreme court of the United States shall think proper, from time to time, by rule, to prescribe to any circuit or district court concerning the same...
Страница 50 - Resolved therefore, That the General Assembly of this Colony have the only and sole exclusive right and power to lay taxes and impositions upon the inhabitants of this Colony, and that every attempt to vest such power in any person or persons whatsoever other than the General Assembly aforesaid has a manifest tendency to destroy British as well as American freedom.
Страница 67 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Страница 53 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are the 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...