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... given by the former committee . Their report was sustained by the House , and a resolution to suspend the prohibitory article was adopted . The proposition failed , however , in the Senate , and there the matter seems to have been ...
... given by the former committee . Their report was sustained by the House , and a resolution to suspend the prohibitory article was adopted . The proposition failed , however , in the Senate , and there the matter seems to have been ...
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... given to the service of my country ; for twelve years of my life I have borne its arms and served it zealously , if not well . As I feel the infirmities , which suffering more than age has brought upon me , it would be a bitter ...
... given to the service of my country ; for twelve years of my life I have borne its arms and served it zealously , if not well . As I feel the infirmities , which suffering more than age has brought upon me , it would be a bitter ...
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... given solemn warning , regarding it as the sign which portended a dissolution of the Union . Diversity of interests and of opinions among the States of the Confederation had in the beginning presented great difficul- ties in the way of ...
... given solemn warning , regarding it as the sign which portended a dissolution of the Union . Diversity of interests and of opinions among the States of the Confederation had in the beginning presented great difficul- ties in the way of ...
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... given up by the compromise of 1850 ; and the North , having obtained , by those successive cessions , a majority in both Houses of Congress , took to itself all the territory acquired from Mexico . Thus , by the action of the General ...
... given up by the compromise of 1850 ; and the North , having obtained , by those successive cessions , a majority in both Houses of Congress , took to itself all the territory acquired from Mexico . Thus , by the action of the General ...
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... given by the States respectively , on entering into the constitutional compact which formed the Union , and are a manifest breach of faith and a violation of the most solemn ob- ligations . " 3. Resolved , That the Union of these States ...
... given by the States respectively , on entering into the constitutional compact which formed the Union , and are a manifest breach of faith and a violation of the most solemn ob- ligations . " 3. Resolved , That the Union of these States ...
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Página 319 - WHEREAS, The laws of the United States have been for some time past and now are opposed, and the execution thereof obstructed in the States of South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 673 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Página 668 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Página 188 - 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...
Página 385 - 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 639 - ... To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; 4 To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Página 92 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Página 645 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Página 320 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Página 181 - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...