Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and TimesA.W. Elder, 1855 - 404 страница A collection of speeches by the author. |
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... obligation , other than constructive ? and forgetting that you had ever thought on But when words are , in themselves , uncer- the subject ; and if the result be not a thor- tain , how do we understand them ? Why cer- ough and ...
... obligation , other than constructive ? and forgetting that you had ever thought on But when words are , in themselves , uncer- the subject ; and if the result be not a thor- tain , how do we understand them ? Why cer- ough and ...
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... obligations from which he should not shrink , to if he was wrong , it was sufficient for him that vindicate the policy of his course , and endeav- he believed he was right . And on this sub- or to maintain the rectitude of his opinions ...
... obligations from which he should not shrink , to if he was wrong , it was sufficient for him that vindicate the policy of his course , and endeav- he believed he was right . And on this sub- or to maintain the rectitude of his opinions ...
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... obligations , and interests , and feelings , ductive , and had generally brought on those incompatible with the genius of free institu- concerned in its operations , distress , and not tions . If the citizen must stand in that rela ...
... obligations , and interests , and feelings , ductive , and had generally brought on those incompatible with the genius of free institu- concerned in its operations , distress , and not tions . If the citizen must stand in that rela ...
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... obligations , not merely in the West , but in the East , and the North , and the South . not be willing or compelled to make sacrifices Green River less united in interest and feeling to obtain it ? If opposed , might they not be than ...
... obligations , not merely in the West , but in the East , and the North , and the South . not be willing or compelled to make sacrifices Green River less united in interest and feeling to obtain it ? If opposed , might they not be than ...
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... obligation . Al- though there seemed to be a great diversity of opinion in relation to what is the obligation of a contract , yet he thought it strange that no one of those who denied the definition given by the court , had ever been ...
... obligation . Al- though there seemed to be a great diversity of opinion in relation to what is the obligation of a contract , yet he thought it strange that no one of those who denied the definition given by the court , had ever been ...
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Страница 239 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Страница 126 - It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.
Страница 134 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Страница 191 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Страница 83 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Страница 59 - In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this; you must first enable the government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Страница 126 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
Страница 132 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Страница 197 - This is one of those truths which, to a correct and unprejudiced mind, carries its own evidence along with it; and may be obscured, but cannot be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal — the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is- expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Страница 131 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.