Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and TimesA.W. Elder, 1855 - 404 páginas A collection of speeches by the author. |
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... interest- ing facts , and wholesome counsels . The mechanical execution is not , altogether , as satisfactory as was desired and expected . Typographical errors have resulted from acci- dent and haste . But , while most of these are too ...
... interest- ing facts , and wholesome counsels . The mechanical execution is not , altogether , as satisfactory as was desired and expected . Typographical errors have resulted from acci- dent and haste . But , while most of these are too ...
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... interest to decide correctly and independently . non - descript Drama has been set on foot in Since the universally lamented death of our this country , by a few men , for what purpose late venerable Chief Magistrate , the question we ...
... interest to decide correctly and independently . non - descript Drama has been set on foot in Since the universally lamented death of our this country , by a few men , for what purpose late venerable Chief Magistrate , the question we ...
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... interest ever to revere and de - eral terms of service prescribed by this consti- fend ; and one , even the confines of which it tution , and until the next general election , would be worse than sacrilege to invade ; for it which shall ...
... interest ever to revere and de - eral terms of service prescribed by this consti- fend ; and one , even the confines of which it tution , and until the next general election , would be worse than sacrilege to invade ; for it which shall ...
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... interest or disposition to violate it ; that I shall only refer you to the 3d article and you , the honest yeomanry of the country , who 8th clause of the constitution to prove its falla- are the stay and hope of the government , and cy ...
... interest or disposition to violate it ; that I shall only refer you to the 3d article and you , the honest yeomanry of the country , who 8th clause of the constitution to prove its falla- are the stay and hope of the government , and cy ...
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... interest in Kentucky's welfare and a few men may sack the constitution when repose ; it is the place of my birth and my they please , with impunity ? The advocates home . of a new election admit that we have not a If any thing I have ...
... interest in Kentucky's welfare and a few men may sack the constitution when repose ; it is the place of my birth and my they please , with impunity ? The advocates home . of a new election admit that we have not a If any thing I have ...
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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.