The History of the Union, and of the Constitution ...: With ... Appendix Containing the Constitution of the United States ...Van Evrie, Horton & Company, 1862 - 92 страница |
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... ment that it cannot touch your rights or your liberties . " Those who read these lectures will , we think , be con- vinced that our fathers supposed they had formed a government which never could be so perverted as to destroy the ...
... ment that it cannot touch your rights or your liberties . " Those who read these lectures will , we think , be con- vinced that our fathers supposed they had formed a government which never could be so perverted as to destroy the ...
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... ment to us ; and , by an eternal law of Providence , we must send it down to our posterity , a boon or a bane . As we act to - day , must our children curse or bless our memories . As we act to - day , shall we transmit to the ...
... ment to us ; and , by an eternal law of Providence , we must send it down to our posterity , a boon or a bane . As we act to - day , must our children curse or bless our memories . As we act to - day , shall we transmit to the ...
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... ment . " The Norman principle of an all - controlling centralized power is incompatible with the freedom and prosperity of the masses . And yet we hear well - meaning people of the present time , with astonishing blindness , declare ...
... ment . " The Norman principle of an all - controlling centralized power is incompatible with the freedom and prosperity of the masses . And yet we hear well - meaning people of the present time , with astonishing blindness , declare ...
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... ment on this continent of vast feudal principalities , to be continued under rulers who would have been no less than viceroys , or to be resumed under the immediate sovereignty of the throne . " Such an occupation of this continent ...
... ment on this continent of vast feudal principalities , to be continued under rulers who would have been no less than viceroys , or to be resumed under the immediate sovereignty of the throne . " Such an occupation of this continent ...
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... ment would have a tendency to interrupt the commerce of the Canadians with the Indians , and of interrupting direct communication between Canada and Louisiana , then also a French colony , wrote to the colonial govern- ors of New York ...
... ment would have a tendency to interrupt the commerce of the Canadians with the Indians , and of interrupting direct communication between Canada and Louisiana , then also a French colony , wrote to the colonial govern- ors of New York ...
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Страница 73 - 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 86 - In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vicepresident. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.] The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Страница 82 - The times, places and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Страница 38 - I am one who will lift up my hands against it. In such a cause, your success would be hazardous. America, if she fell, would fall like the strong man ; she would embrace the pillars of the state, and pull down the constitution along with her.
Страница 82 - No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote unless they be equally divided.
Страница 80 - Twas my forefather's hand That placed it near his cot; There, woodman, let it stand, Thy axe shall harm it not. That old familiar tree, Whose glory and renown Are spread o'er land and sea — And wouldst thou hew it down? Woodman, forbear thy stroke! Cut not its earth-bound ties; Oh, spare that aged oak Now towering to the skies!
Страница 82 - When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers; and shall have the sole power of impeachment. SECTION 3. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state, chosen by the legislature thereof for six years; and each senator shall have one vote.
Страница 31 - They planted by your care ! No, your oppressions planted them in America. They fled from your tyranny to a then uncultivated and inhospitable country, where they exposed themselves to almost all the hardships to which human nature is liable; and among others, to the cruelties of a savage foe, the most subtle, and I will take...
Страница 59 - The first section of the third article of the constitution declares that "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and such inferior courts as congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
Страница 67 - It has been observed to coerce the States is one of the maddest projects that was ever devised. A failure of compliance will never be confined to a single State. This being the case can we suppose it wise to hazard a civil war? Suppose...