The Three Powers of GovernmentHurd and Houghton, 1869 - 108 páginas |
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The Three Powers of Government: The Origin of the United States; and the ... Joel Parker Sin vista previa disponible - 2017 |
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Página 8 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Página 47 - where the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under, a State, is drawn in question on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of the validity of the
Página 9 - from the legislative and executive powers. Were it joined with the legislative, the life and liberty of the subject would be exposed to arbitrary control ; for the judge would then be the legislator. Were it joined to the executive power, the judge might behave with all the violence of an oppressor. " There would be an end of everything
Página 47 - when the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under, the United States, is drawn in question, and the decision is against their validity, or where the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under,
Página 104 - be the duty of the President to assign to the command of each of said districts an officer of the army not below the rank of brigadier-general, and to detail a sufficient military force to enable such officer to perform his duties, and enforce his authority within the district to which he is assigned;
Página 32 - written for the hour. The words are as beautiful as emphatic. " ' The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew. We must disenthrall ourselves and then we shall save our country.' " " These are the words of Abraham Lincoln.
Página 105 - framed by a convention of delegates elected by the male citizens of said State twenty-one years old and upward, of whatever race, color, or previous condition, who have been resident in the State for one year previous to the day of election
Página 105 - any civil government which may exist therein shall be deemed provisional only, and in all respects subject to the paramount authority of the United States, at any time to abolish, modify, control, or supersede the same,
Página 27 - the power of Congress to determine in what States or Districts such great and imminent public danger exists as justifies the authorization of military tribunals for the trial of crimes and offences against the discipline or security of the army, or against the public safety.
Página 105 - were not legal State governments; and that thereafter said governments, if continued, were to be continued subject in all respects to the military commanders of the respective districts, and to the paramount authority of Congress.