A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volumen5Bureau of national literature, 1897 |
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... amendment , to which other portions of the Constitution were exposed . It would , then , have been wholly unneces- sary to ingraft on the fifth article of the Constitution , prescribing the mode of its own future amendment , the proviso ...
... amendment , to which other portions of the Constitution were exposed . It would , then , have been wholly unneces- sary to ingraft on the fifth article of the Constitution , prescribing the mode of its own future amendment , the proviso ...
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United States. President. mode of its own future amendment , the proviso " that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect " the provision in the Constitution securing to the States the right to ...
United States. President. mode of its own future amendment , the proviso " that no amendment which may be made prior to the year 1808 shall in any manner affect " the provision in the Constitution securing to the States the right to ...
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... amendment stipulated in the second article of the decree of ratifi- cation by Nicaragua is in conformity with the views of this Government , to which the omitted clause was obnoxious , as will be seen by reference to the note of the ...
... amendment stipulated in the second article of the decree of ratifi- cation by Nicaragua is in conformity with the views of this Government , to which the omitted clause was obnoxious , as will be seen by reference to the note of the ...
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... amended and ratified was laid before that body , and on the 25th of the same month it was approved with the amendments . Inasmuch , however , as the period had expired within which by the third amendment of the Senate the ratifications ...
... amended and ratified was laid before that body , and on the 25th of the same month it was approved with the amendments . Inasmuch , however , as the period had expired within which by the third amendment of the Senate the ratifications ...
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... amendments suggested by the Com- missioner of Indian Affairs . JAMES BUCHANAN . To the Senate and House of Representatives . JUNE 23 , 1860 . GENTLEMEN : I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to ...
... amendments suggested by the Com- missioner of Indian Affairs . JAMES BUCHANAN . To the Senate and House of Representatives . JUNE 23 , 1860 . GENTLEMEN : I feel it my duty to communicate to you that it has been found impracticable to ...
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Página 3359 - Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this...
Página 3456 - If we shall suppose that American slavery is one of those offenses which, in the providence of God, must needs come, but which, having continued through his appointed time, he now wills to remove, and that he gives to both North and South this terrible war, as the woe due to those by whom the offense came, shall we discern therein any departure from those divine attributes which the believers in a living God always ascribe to him ? Fondly do we hope — fervently do we pray — that this mighty scourge...
Página 3310 - It is substantially true, that virtue or morality is a necessary spring of popular government. The rule, indeed, extends with more or less force to every species of free government. Who, that is a sincere friend to it, can look with indifference upon attempts to shake the foundation of the fabric ? Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that...
Página 3300 - That on the first day of January, in the year of "our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty"three, all persons held as slaves within any State or "designated part of a State, the people whereof shall "then be in rebellion against the United States, shall "be then, thenceforward, and forever free...
Página 3359 - ... that on the first day of january in the year of our lord one thousand eight hundred and sixtythree all persons held as slaves within any state or designated part of a state the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the united states shall be then thenceforward and forever free and the executive government of the united states including the military and naval authority thereof will recognize and maintain the freedom of such persons and will do no act or acts to repress such persons...
Página 3211 - Can aliens make treaties easier than friends can make laws? Can treaties be more faithfully enforced between aliens than laws can among friends? Suppose you go to war, you...
Página 3310 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and at no distant period a great nation to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence. Who can doubt that in the course of time and things the fruits of such a plan would richly repay any temporary advantages which might be lost by a steady adherence to it? Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment, at least, is recommended...
Página 3337 - The great body of the people abide by the dry legal obligation in both cases, and a few break over in each. This, I think, cannot be perfectly cured, and it would be worse in both cases after the separation of the sections than before.
Página 3210 - It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And finally, in 1787, one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was, " to form a more perfect Union.