The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papersTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... told the House " he had taken the chair without an order , to bring the House into order . " Some excepted against it ; but it was generally approved as the only expedient to suppress the disorder . And every member was required ...
... told the House " he had taken the chair without an order , to bring the House into order . " Some excepted against it ; but it was generally approved as the only expedient to suppress the disorder . And every member was required ...
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... told when there is not a quorum present . - 2 Hats . 87 , 129. How far an order of the House is binding , see Hakew . 392 . But where an order is made that any particular matter be taken up on a particular day , there a question is to ...
... told when there is not a quorum present . - 2 Hats . 87 , 129. How far an order of the House is binding , see Hakew . 392 . But where an order is made that any particular matter be taken up on a particular day , there a question is to ...
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... told in the division who was not in when the question was put . - 2 Hats . 140 . This last position is always true when the vote is by yeas and nays ; where the negative as well as the affirmative of the ques- tion is stated by the ...
... told in the division who was not in when the question was put . - 2 Hats . 140 . This last position is always true when the vote is by yeas and nays ; where the negative as well as the affirmative of the ques- tion is stated by the ...
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... told by Sir John Trevor , was then [ 1679 ] newly introduced into Parlia- mentary usage , by the Lords . - 7 Grey , 94. It was certainly a happy innovation , as it multiplies the opportunities of trying modifications which may bring the ...
... told by Sir John Trevor , was then [ 1679 ] newly introduced into Parlia- mentary usage , by the Lords . - 7 Grey , 94. It was certainly a happy innovation , as it multiplies the opportunities of trying modifications which may bring the ...
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... told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject ; that not having yet informed myself of the system of finances adopted , I knew not how far this was a necessary se- quence ; that undoubtedly , if its rejection endangered a ...
... told him that I was really a stranger to the whole subject ; that not having yet informed myself of the system of finances adopted , I knew not how far this was a necessary se- quence ; that undoubtedly , if its rejection endangered a ...
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Страница 464 - Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Страница 487 - 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.
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Страница 466 - States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect. IV. Resolved, that alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are ; that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States distinct from their power over citizens ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared that " the powers not...
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Страница 470 - ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Страница 465 - 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 466 - States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Страница 55 - ... successively on the longest. Otherwise it would be in the power of the mover, by inserting originally a short time, to preclude the possibility of a longer; for till the short time is struck out, you cannot...
Страница 280 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Nevertheless it shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles, and to detain them for such length of time as the captors may think...