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... attention . His taste , although undirected , led him to history , to the neglect of novels and other lighter reading ; and so deeply was he inter- ested , that in a short time he read the whole of the small stock of his- torical works ...
... attention . His taste , although undirected , led him to history , to the neglect of novels and other lighter reading ; and so deeply was he inter- ested , that in a short time he read the whole of the small stock of his- torical works ...
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... attention of the people , in selecting candidates for Congress , to those whom they believed to be the most competent to serve them at so trying a period . The eyes of the congressional district in which Mr. Calhoun resided were turned ...
... attention of the people , in selecting candidates for Congress , to those whom they believed to be the most competent to serve them at so trying a period . The eyes of the congressional district in which Mr. Calhoun resided were turned ...
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... attention , which he promised to do . His predisposition was strongly in favour of a bank of some kind . It was then generally thought to be indispensable to the prosecution of the war . With this disposition , and a strong desire to ...
... attention , which he promised to do . His predisposition was strongly in favour of a bank of some kind . It was then generally thought to be indispensable to the prosecution of the war . With this disposition , and a strong desire to ...
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... attention to the details of the bill . He concurred in the general views and policy in which it originated , and the more readily because it would sustain the manufacturing establishments that had grown up under the war - measures of ...
... attention to the details of the bill . He concurred in the general views and policy in which it originated , and the more readily because it would sustain the manufacturing establishments that had grown up under the war - measures of ...
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... attention of Congress to the subject of internal improvements , and recommended Congress to call into exercise whatever constitutional power it might possess over the subject , and if that should not prove adequate , to apply for an ...
... attention of Congress to the subject of internal improvements , and recommended Congress to call into exercise whatever constitutional power it might possess over the subject , and if that should not prove adequate , to apply for an ...
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Страница 41 - 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; 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 64 - Senate came to a vote on the first of the series,, which was as follows : "1. Resolved, That, in the adoption of the Federal Constitution, the States adopting the same acted severally as free and independent sovereignties, delegating a portion of their powers to be exercised by the Federal Government for the increased security of each against dangers, domestic as well as foreign...
Страница 39 - To avoid these evils it appears to me that the most safe, just, and federal disposition which could be made of the surplus revenue would be its apportionment among the several States according to their ratio of representation, and should this measure not be found warranted by the Constitution that it would be expedient to propose to the States an amendment authorizing it.
Страница 47 - Resolved, That the assertions, that the people of these United States, taken collectively, as individuals, are now or ev.er have been united on the principle of the social compact, and as such, are now formed into one nation, or people, or that they have ever been so united, in any one stage of their political existence ; that the people of the several States, composing the Union, have not, as members thereof, retained their sovereignty ; that the allegiance of their citizens has been transferred...
Страница 44 - That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the rightful remedy...
Страница 65 - Resolved, That this Government was instituted and adopted by the several states of this Union as a common agent, in order to carry into effect the powers which they had delegated by the Constitution for their mutual security and prosperity . and that, in fulfilment of this high and sacred trust, this Government is bound...