A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall, Volumen1National Publishing Company, 1868 - 676 páginas This book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War. |
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... SYSTEM , THIS PARAMOUNT AUTHORITY RESIDES . COLLOQUY II . CON- INQUIRY INTO ... FEDERAL CONVENTION TO REMODEL THEM - THE SOLE OBJECT OF THIS CONVENTION WAS ... FEDERAL CHARACTER OF THE UNION . 82 # COLLOQUY IV . THE NATURE OF THE UNION ...
... SYSTEM , THIS PARAMOUNT AUTHORITY RESIDES . COLLOQUY II . CON- INQUIRY INTO ... FEDERAL CONVENTION TO REMODEL THEM - THE SOLE OBJECT OF THIS CONVENTION WAS ... FEDERAL CHARACTER OF THE UNION . 82 # COLLOQUY IV . THE NATURE OF THE UNION ...
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... FEDERAL SYSTEM UNDER THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THAT COMPROMSIE WAS MADE- THE GREAT PROSPERITY THAT FOLLOWED - NO PRESIDENT FROM JEF- FERSON TO LINCOLN ELECTED , WHO DID NOT HOLD THE GOVERNMENT TO BE A COMPACT BETWEEN SOVEREIGN STATES ...
... FEDERAL SYSTEM UNDER THE PRINCIPLES ON WHICH THAT COMPROMSIE WAS MADE- THE GREAT PROSPERITY THAT FOLLOWED - NO PRESIDENT FROM JEF- FERSON TO LINCOLN ELECTED , WHO DID NOT HOLD THE GOVERNMENT TO BE A COMPACT BETWEEN SOVEREIGN STATES ...
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... system is afflicted , proceed , as natural and inevitable consequences , from the viola- tion or neglect of some one ... Federal . No great disorders ever occur in them without some similar real cause . It is a postulate , with many ...
... system is afflicted , proceed , as natural and inevitable consequences , from the viola- tion or neglect of some one ... Federal . No great disorders ever occur in them without some similar real cause . It is a postulate , with many ...
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... Federal authorities , that the people of the several States were , as you ... system , ultimate Sovereign power or Paramount authority properly resides ... Federal Government ( Messrs . Lincoln and Hamlin ) , as to the powers of that ...
... Federal authorities , that the people of the several States were , as you ... system , ultimate Sovereign power or Paramount authority properly resides ... Federal Government ( Messrs . Lincoln and Hamlin ) , as to the powers of that ...
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... Federal system that ex- isted before that time , and substituting , in its stead , a Gen- eral National Government over the whole people of all the States , as one body politic . This party wished to do away entirely with the ...
... Federal system that ex- isted before that time , and substituting , in its stead , a Gen- eral National Government over the whole people of all the States , as one body politic . This party wished to do away entirely with the ...
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A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, Volumen2 Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vista previa limitada - 1870 |
A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its ..., Volumen1 Alexander Hamilton Stephens Vista de fragmentos - 1868 |
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Página 555 - Canada, acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Página 565 - ... Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. 2 A person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
Página 549 - II. 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.
Página 550 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Página 570 - 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.
Página 570 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each state to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever...
Página 558 - Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
Página 560 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Página 564 - The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
Página 354 - 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, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...