The Works of John C. Calhoun: Speeches ... delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United StatesD. Appleton, 1853 |
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... proposed , it will not meet with my approbation . I am decidedly of opinion that the best interests of the coun- try will be consulted by calling out the whole force of the community to protect its rights . Should this course fail , the ...
... proposed , it will not meet with my approbation . I am decidedly of opinion that the best interests of the coun- try will be consulted by calling out the whole force of the community to protect its rights . Should this course fail , the ...
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... proposed repeal . I am ready to meet them . We are at war . It is wisdom to make it efficient ; and that system will meet with my hearty support which renders it the most so , be it more or less burthensome . I fear not the effect of ...
... proposed repeal . I am ready to meet them . We are at war . It is wisdom to make it efficient ; and that system will meet with my hearty support which renders it the most so , be it more or less burthensome . I fear not the effect of ...
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... proposed to be laid on imports , present very serious impediments - equal , or nearly so , to the Non - Impor- tation Act itself . If , Sir , in some parts of this country , English goods can now be had at 60 per cent . on the invoice ...
... proposed to be laid on imports , present very serious impediments - equal , or nearly so , to the Non - Impor- tation Act itself . If , Sir , in some parts of this country , English goods can now be had at 60 per cent . on the invoice ...
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... proposed to be done by the committee ; —viz . : — to levy the extra profit . The two powers are essentially dif- ferent . The one is of a judicial and equitable character , and has for its object guilt or innocence ; -the other that of ...
... proposed to be done by the committee ; —viz . : — to levy the extra profit . The two powers are essentially dif- ferent . The one is of a judicial and equitable character , and has for its object guilt or innocence ; -the other that of ...
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... proposed to distinguish for punishment the head and leaders of this infraction of the law . My friend from Kentucky ( the Speaker ) has designated two classes to be favored — the pur- chasers of British goods before the 2d of February ...
... proposed to distinguish for punishment the head and leaders of this infraction of the law . My friend from Kentucky ( the Speaker ) has designated two classes to be favored — the pur- chasers of British goods before the 2d of February ...
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Страница 263 - 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 268 - ... propositions for changing its original basis. I go for the Constitution as it is, and for the Union as it is. But I am resolved not to submit in silence to accusations, either against myself individually or against the North, wholly unfounded and unjust ; accusations which impute to us a disposition to evade the constitutional compact, and to extend the power of the government over the internal laws and domestic condition of the States.
Страница 267 - I leave where I find it — in the hands of their own governments. It is their affair, not mine. Nor do I complain of the peculiar effect which the magnitude of that population has had in the distribution of power under this federal government. We know, sir, that the representation of the States in the other House is not equal. We know that great advantage in that respect, is enjoyed by the slave-holding States...
Страница 486 - The relation which now exists between the two races in the slave-holding States has existed for two centuries. It has grown with our growth and strengthened with our strength. It has entered into and modified all our institutions, civil and political. None other can be substituted.
Страница 262 - Resolved, That the people of the several States composing these United States are united as parties to a constitutional compact, to which the people of each State acceded as a separate and sovereign community, each binding itself by its own particular ratification ; and that the Union, of which the said compact is the bond, is a Union between the States ratifying the same.
Страница 299 - Constitution ; and consequently, that the ultimate right of the parties to the Constitution, to judge whether the compact has been dangerously violated, must extend to violations by one delegated authority, as well as by another; by the judiciary, as well as by the executive, or the Legislature.
Страница 237 - ... 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.