Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Volumen2Little, Brown, 1873 - 737 páginas |
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... amendment was pro- posed by the State of New York to the Constitution at the time of adopting it , that the power of passing uniform bankrupt laws should extend only to merchants and other traders ; but it did not meet general favor ...
... amendment was pro- posed by the State of New York to the Constitution at the time of adopting it , that the power of passing uniform bankrupt laws should extend only to merchants and other traders ; but it did not meet general favor ...
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... amended , it passed without opposition.2 It is observable , that the confedera- tion gave only the power to establish and regulate post - offices ; and therefore the amendment introduced a new and substantive power , unknown before in ...
... amended , it passed without opposition.2 It is observable , that the confedera- tion gave only the power to establish and regulate post - offices ; and therefore the amendment introduced a new and substantive power , unknown before in ...
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... amendment after the project had been submitted to the States . 1 Secret Journals of Congress , 384 , June 25 , 1778 . Mr. Marshall's Speech , 5 Wheat . R. 16 , Appx . 5 The Federalist , No. 42 ; Rawle on Const . ch . 9 , p . 107 ; 2 ...
... amendment after the project had been submitted to the States . 1 Secret Journals of Congress , 384 , June 25 , 1778 . Mr. Marshall's Speech , 5 Wheat . R. 16 , Appx . 5 The Federalist , No. 42 ; Rawle on Const . ch . 9 , p . 107 ; 2 ...
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... amendment to the Constitution to this effect . But it was never adopted by a majority . 1 Tuck . Black . Comm . App . 271 , 272 , 374. Under the confederation , the assent of nine States was necessary to a declara- tion of war ( Art . 9 ) ...
... amendment to the Constitution to this effect . But it was never adopted by a majority . 1 Tuck . Black . Comm . App . 271 , 272 , 374. Under the confederation , the assent of nine States was necessary to a declara- tion of war ( Art . 9 ) ...
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... amendment was proposed , requiring , that no standing army or regular forces be kept up in time of peace , except for the necessary protection and defence of forts , arsenals , and dock - yards , without the consent of two - thirds of ...
... amendment was proposed , requiring , that no standing army or regular forces be kept up in time of peace , except for the necessary protection and defence of forts , arsenals , and dock - yards , without the consent of two - thirds of ...
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Página 101 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Página 664 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Página 669 - The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Página 643 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Página 67 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Página 698 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Página 640 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Página 605 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Página 4 - Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Página 125 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?