A Disquisition on Government, Том 1A. S. Johnston, 1851 - 406 страница Copy held in Manuscripts Division (John Julius Dargan papers)includes annotations, comments, re Constitutional law, "spoils system," Calhoun's death; views on Abraham Lincoln; etc.; Volume I only. |
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... character , very strongly marks the difference between these forms of government . I refer to their respective conser- vative principle ; —that is , the principle by which they are upheld and preserved . This principle , in ...
... character , very strongly marks the difference between these forms of government . I refer to their respective conser- vative principle ; —that is , the principle by which they are upheld and preserved . This principle , in ...
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... character , is , that they admit , with safety , a much greater extension of the right of suffrage . It may be safely extended in such gov- ernments to universal suffrage : that is , to every male citizen of mature age , with few ...
... character , is , that they admit , with safety , a much greater extension of the right of suffrage . It may be safely extended in such gov- ernments to universal suffrage : that is , to every male citizen of mature age , with few ...
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... character of the government and the people , morally , as well as politically . The means of acquiring power , or , more correctly , in- fluence , in such governments , would be the re- verse . Instead of the vices , by which it is ac ...
... character of the government and the people , morally , as well as politically . The means of acquiring power , or , more correctly , in- fluence , in such governments , would be the re- verse . Instead of the vices , by which it is ac ...
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... character of the people . But if , on the contrary , cunning , fraud , treachery , and party devotion be the most certain , they will be the most highly prized , and become marked fea- tures in their character . So powerful , indeed ...
... character of the people . But if , on the contrary , cunning , fraud , treachery , and party devotion be the most certain , they will be the most highly prized , and become marked fea- tures in their character . So powerful , indeed ...
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... character of the neces- sity which impels to compromise under governments of this description . But to have a just conception of the overpower- ing influence it would exert , the circumstances under which it would act must be taken into ...
... character of the neces- sity which impels to compromise under governments of this description . But to have a just conception of the overpower- ing influence it would exert , the circumstances under which it would act must be taken into ...
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Страница 355 - That to this compact each State acceded 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; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers...
Страница 354 - ... 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 325 - 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 353 - That this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties...
Страница 318 - 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 208 - 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 206 - 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 136 - 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 115 - 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 151 - 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.