A Disquisition on GovernmentA. S. Johnston, 1851 - 406 страница |
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... tion or law of our nature is , in which government originates ; or , to express it more fully and accu- rately , —that law , without which government would not , and with which , it must necessarily exist . Without this , it is as ...
... tion or law of our nature is , in which government originates ; or , to express it more fully and accu- rately , —that law , without which government would not , and with which , it must necessarily exist . Without this , it is as ...
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... tion of the important and difficult question : How is this tendency of government to be counteracted ? Or , to express it more fully , -How can those who are invested with the powers of government be pre- vented from employing them , as ...
... tion of the important and difficult question : How is this tendency of government to be counteracted ? Or , to express it more fully , -How can those who are invested with the powers of government be pre- vented from employing them , as ...
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... tion and preservation of the community . And hence the question recurs , -By what means can gov- ernment , without being divested of the full com- mand of the resources of the community , be pre- vented from abusing its powers ? The ...
... tion and preservation of the community . And hence the question recurs , -By what means can gov- ernment , without being divested of the full com- mand of the resources of the community , be pre- vented from abusing its powers ? The ...
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... through the right of suffrage , is the indispensable and primary principle in the founda tion of a constitutional government . When this right is properly guarded , and the people sufficient- ly 12 A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT .
... through the right of suffrage , is the indispensable and primary principle in the founda tion of a constitutional government . When this right is properly guarded , and the people sufficient- ly 12 A DISQUISITION ON GOVERNMENT .
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... tion of the community to pervert its powers to op- press , and plunder the other . Such being the case , it necessarily results , that the right of suffrage , by placing the control of the government in the community must , from the ...
... tion of the community to pervert its powers to op- press , and plunder the other . Such being the case , it necessarily results , that the right of suffrage , by placing the control of the government in the community must , from the ...
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Страница 325 - That to this compact each state accede,d as a state, and is an integral party, its co-states forming as to itself, the other party : That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
Страница 295 - States, and the decision is against their validity, or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity...
Страница 323 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further 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...
Страница 288 - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Страница 202 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Страница 200 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Страница 130 - 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.
Страница 288 - States, and the decision is in favor of their validity ; or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption, specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Страница 109 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
Страница 145 - The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government. Among a People consolidated into one Nation, this supremacy is completely vested in the National Legislature.