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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... civil and po- litical privileges , it is equally our duty to in- vestigate impartially and deliberately , and our interest to decide correctly and independently . Since the universally lamented death of our late venerable Chief ...
... civil and po- litical privileges , it is equally our duty to in- vestigate impartially and deliberately , and our interest to decide correctly and independently . Since the universally lamented death of our late venerable Chief ...
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... civil rights in - venience may arise from the change made by violate , should , by one great primeval act of this constitution , in the time of holding the united sovereignty , establish some fundamen - general election , it is hereby ...
... civil rights in - venience may arise from the change made by violate , should , by one great primeval act of this constitution , in the time of holding the united sovereignty , establish some fundamen - general election , it is hereby ...
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... civil war ? And for tion and conviction of every impartial mind . what is this to be done ? To preserve our con- I might say much more on this subject , but I stitution ? No ; to sacrifice it . Is it to promote have said more already ...
... civil war ? And for tion and conviction of every impartial mind . what is this to be done ? To preserve our con- I might say much more on this subject , but I stitution ? No ; to sacrifice it . Is it to promote have said more already ...
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... civil and reli- gious liberty , which dawned in the fifteenth century , the march of liberal ideas and true philosophy , although slow , has been steady That theory which pronounces all men and constantly progressive , until the time ...
... civil and reli- gious liberty , which dawned in the fifteenth century , the march of liberal ideas and true philosophy , although slow , has been steady That theory which pronounces all men and constantly progressive , until the time ...
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... civil liberty " in its genuine and practical import , and of political sovereignty , " this leg- islature may felicitate itself for having done more good and prevented more mischief than it it could have done by any legislation ...
... civil liberty " in its genuine and practical import , and of political sovereignty , " this leg- islature may felicitate itself for having done more good and prevented more mischief than it it could have done by any legislation ...
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Страница 124 - 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 189 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Страница 81 - Hence it is, that such Democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention ; have ever been found incompatible with personal security, or the rights of property ; and have in general been as short in their lives, as they have been violent in their deaths.
Страница 81 - 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 124 - 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 130 - 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 195 - 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 130 - Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of courts of justice, whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Страница 82 - The interpretation of the laws is the proper and peculiar province of the courts. A constitution is in fact, and must be, regarded by the judges as a fundamental law. It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body.
Страница 81 - When a majority is included in a faction, the form of popular government, on the other hand, enables it to sacrifice to its ruling passion or interest both the public good and the rights of other citizens.