Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and TimesA.W. Elder, 1855 - 404 páginas |
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... united strength , they have endeavored to forti- he should serve ? Can you think that the du- fy by arguments equally fallacious . And here permit me to pause , not to express my own surprise , ( for to me it is no strange matter ) but ...
... united strength , they have endeavored to forti- he should serve ? Can you think that the du- fy by arguments equally fallacious . And here permit me to pause , not to express my own surprise , ( for to me it is no strange matter ) but ...
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... United States , Congress should leave , as the patriarchs of the constitution left , the domestic institution to the states , and the peo- ple of territories of the United States , to be dis- posed of as each separate community of free ...
... United States , Congress should leave , as the patriarchs of the constitution left , the domestic institution to the states , and the peo- ple of territories of the United States , to be dis- posed of as each separate community of free ...
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... United States where it exists , not necessary to enable a statesman to foresee the exercise of that power is subject ... United States , as well as each state , should be Union . Its continuance , therefore , in the allowed to ...
... United States where it exists , not necessary to enable a statesman to foresee the exercise of that power is subject ... United States , as well as each state , should be Union . Its continuance , therefore , in the allowed to ...
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... United States the follow- ing resolution , which was adopted : " Resolved , That the committee on the Public Lands be instructed to in- quire into the expediency of so altering the laws regulating the sales of the vacant lands of the United ...
... United States the follow- ing resolution , which was adopted : " Resolved , That the committee on the Public Lands be instructed to in- quire into the expediency of so altering the laws regulating the sales of the vacant lands of the United ...
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... United States , on land subjects , are in favor of the change proposed in the bill under con- sideration . He would ask , who is more " practical " on all subjects that concerned the public lands than a late Senator from Ohio ; ( Mr ...
... United States , on land subjects , are in favor of the change proposed in the bill under con- sideration . He would ask , who is more " practical " on all subjects that concerned the public lands than a late Senator from Ohio ; ( Mr ...
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Página 239 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Página 126 - It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.
Página 134 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Página 191 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Página 83 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Página 59 - In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this; you must first enable the government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Página 126 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
Página 132 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Página 197 - This is one of those truths which, to a correct and unprejudiced mind, carries its own evidence along with it; and may be obscured, but cannot be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal — the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is- expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Página 131 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.