The Life of John Caldwell CalhounAlden, Beardsley & Company, 1854 - 454 страница |
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... delegated to it without the consent of foreign nations . Each in its proper sphere operates with general influence ; but when they became erratic , then they were portentous and dangerous . A treaty never can legitimately do that which ...
... delegated to it without the consent of foreign nations . Each in its proper sphere operates with general influence ; but when they became erratic , then they were portentous and dangerous . A treaty never can legitimately do that which ...
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... delegated , they have the right , in the last resort , to use the language of the Virginia Resolutions , " to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil , and for maintaining , within their respective limits , the authorities ...
... delegated , they have the right , in the last resort , to use the language of the Virginia Resolutions , " to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil , and for maintaining , within their respective limits , the authorities ...
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John Stilwell Jenkins. powers delegated to it , is incompatible with the sovereignty of the states , and of the Constitution itself , considered as the basis of a Federal Union . As strong as this language is , it is not stronger than ...
John Stilwell Jenkins. powers delegated to it , is incompatible with the sovereignty of the states , and of the Constitution itself , considered as the basis of a Federal Union . As strong as this language is , it is not stronger than ...
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... delegated all the powers sup- posed to be necessary to regulate the interests common to all the states , leaving others subject to the separate control of the states , being , from their local and peculiar character , such that they ...
... delegated all the powers sup- posed to be necessary to regulate the interests common to all the states , leaving others subject to the separate control of the states , being , from their local and peculiar character , such that they ...
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... delegated on their part , under the conviction that their common peace , safety , and prosperity required it ; that they are bound together by a common origin , and the recollection of common suffering and common triumph in the great ...
... delegated on their part , under the conviction that their common peace , safety , and prosperity required it ; that they are bound together by a common origin , and the recollection of common suffering and common triumph in the great ...
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Страница 282 - ... 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 the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.
Страница 203 - All laws of the particular States contrary to the Constitution or laws of the United States to be utterly void; and the better to prevent such laws being passed, the Governor or President of each State shall be appointed by the General Government, and shall have a negative upon the laws about to be passed in the State of which he is Governor or President.
Страница 249 - 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...
Страница 415 - I HAVE, Senators, believed from the first that the agitation of the subject of slavery would, if not prevented by some timely and effective measure, end in disunion.
Страница 428 - States together except force. But surely that can with no propriety of language be called a Union when the only means by which the weaker is held connected with the stronger portion is force. It may, indeed, keep them connected; but the connection will partake much more of the character of subjugation on the part of the weaker to the stronger than the union of free, independent, and sovereign States in one confederation, as they stood in the early stages of the government, and which only is worthy...
Страница 428 - Having now, Senators, explained what it is that endangers the Union, and traced it to its cause, and explained its nature and character, the question again recurs, How can the Union be saved? To this I answer, there is but one way by which it can be — and that is, by adopting such measures as will satisfy the States belonging to the Southern section that they can remain in the Union consistently with their honor and their safety.
Страница 278 - It is the power which raises man above the brute, which distinguishes his faculties from mere sagacity, which he holds in common with inferior animals. It is this power which has raised the astronomer from being a mere gazer at the stars to the high intellectual eminence of a Newton or a Laplace, and astronomy itself from a mere observation of insulated facts into that noble science which displays to our admiration the system of the universe.
Страница 427 - ... spiritual and ecclesiastical nature, consisted in the unity of the great religious denominations, all of which originally embraced the whole Union. All these denominations, with the exception, perhaps, of the Catholics, were organized very much upon the principle of our political institutions. Beginning with smaller meetings, corresponding with the political divisions of the country, their organization terminated in one great central assemblage, corresponding very much with the character of Congress.
Страница 423 - ... are as opposite and hostile as they can possibly be. I refer to the relation between the two races in the Southern section, which constitutes a vital portion of her social organization. Every portion of the North entertains views and feelings more or less hostile to it. Those most...
Страница 233 - ... that in cases of an abuse of the delegated powers, the members of the General Government, being chosen by the people, a change by the people would be the constitutional remedy; but, where powers are assumed which have not been delegated, a nullification of the act is the rightful remedy...