American Eloquence: a Collection of Speeches and Addresses: By the Most Eminent Orators of America, Том 2D. Appleton and Company, 1857 |
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... Constitution was promulgated . The convention resolved , " That the Constitution be laid before the United States , in Congress assembled , and that it is the opinion of this convention that it should afterwards be submitted to a ...
... Constitution was promulgated . The convention resolved , " That the Constitution be laid before the United States , in Congress assembled , and that it is the opinion of this convention that it should afterwards be submitted to a ...
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... constitution of Virginia ? If the checks in the constitution be compared to the checks in the Virginia constitution , he will find the best security in the former . will be sufficiently energetic and operative in a small territory ...
... constitution of Virginia ? If the checks in the constitution be compared to the checks in the Virginia constitution , he will find the best security in the former . will be sufficiently energetic and operative in a small territory ...
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... constitution itself , are to try . Let us try it , and keep our hands free to change it when necessary . If it be necessary to change government , let us change that gov- ernment which has been found to be defective . The difficulty we ...
... constitution itself , are to try . Let us try it , and keep our hands free to change it when necessary . If it be necessary to change government , let us change that gov- ernment which has been found to be defective . The difficulty we ...
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... constitution which exclude the courts of the States from those cases which they now possess ? Does the gentleman imagine this to be the case ? Will any gentleman believe it ? Are not controversies respecting lands , claimed under the ...
... constitution which exclude the courts of the States from those cases which they now possess ? Does the gentleman imagine this to be the case ? Will any gentleman believe it ? Are not controversies respecting lands , claimed under the ...
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... constitution . law and fact , of the supreme court . These ex- Is this done by our own constitution , or by any ceptions certainly go as far as the legislature provision of the English government ? Is it may think proper , for the ...
... constitution . law and fact , of the supreme court . These ex- Is this done by our own constitution , or by any ceptions certainly go as far as the legislature provision of the English government ? Is it may think proper , for the ...
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Страница 202 - If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this union, or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it.
Страница 368 - Mr. President, when the mariner has been tossed, for many days, in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
Страница 8 - RESOLVED, That the preceding constitution be laid before the United States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Страница 203 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Страница 380 - An act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates upon the subject of roads and canals." It authorized the President to cause surveys and estimates to be made of the routes of such roads and canals as he might deem of national importance, in a commercial or military point of view, or for the transportation of the mail, and.
Страница 44 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Страница 398 - True it is, that Providence hath so ordained, and doth so govern things, that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood seldom succeed in avoiding discovery. Especially, in a case exciting so much attention as this, discovery must...
Страница 398 - Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or, rather, it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself. It labors under its guilty possession, and knows not what to do with it. The human heart was not made for the residence of such an inhabitant.
Страница 372 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them in any of the States; it remaining with the several States alone to provide rules and regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Страница 398 - Deep sleep had fallen on the destined victim, and on all beneath his roof. A healthful old man, to whom sleep was sweet, the first sound slumbers of the night held him in their soft but strong embrace. The assassin enters, through the window already prepared, into an unoccupied apartment. With noiseless foot he paces the lonely hall, half lighted by the moon ; he winds up the ascent of the stairs, and reaches the door of the chamber.