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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... federal government was the regu- lation of foreign commerce . " " If the old Congress had possessed the power of lay- ing a duty of ten per cent . ad valorem on imports , this Constitution would never have been called into existence ...
... federal government was the regu- lation of foreign commerce . " " If the old Congress had possessed the power of lay- ing a duty of ten per cent . ad valorem on imports , this Constitution would never have been called into existence ...
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... federal government to enforce them had become so apparent , as to render that power in a great degree useless . Those who felt the injury arising from this state of things , and those who were capable of estimating the influence of ...
... federal government to enforce them had become so apparent , as to render that power in a great degree useless . Those who felt the injury arising from this state of things , and those who were capable of estimating the influence of ...
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... federal courts are not the rightful judges of the law , even in criminal cases . See United States v . Battiste , 2 Sum . 240 ; Stittinus v . United States , 5 Cranch C. C. 573 ; United States v . Morris , 1 Curt . 53 ; United States v ...
... federal courts are not the rightful judges of the law , even in criminal cases . See United States v . Battiste , 2 Sum . 240 ; Stittinus v . United States , 5 Cranch C. C. 573 ; United States v . Morris , 1 Curt . 53 ; United States v ...
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... federal control ( Veazie v . Moor , 14 How . 561 ) , yet a river entirely within a State , which , by uniting with other waters , forms a continued high- way over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign coun ...
... federal control ( Veazie v . Moor , 14 How . 561 ) , yet a river entirely within a State , which , by uniting with other waters , forms a continued high- way over which commerce is or may be carried on with other States or foreign coun ...
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... federal court to have the Wheeling Bridge declared a public nuisance , and abated as such . The bridge was built under the authority of the State of Virginia , across the Ohio River , at a point within the jurisdiction of that State ...
... federal court to have the Wheeling Bridge declared a public nuisance , and abated as such . The bridge was built under the authority of the State of Virginia , across the Ohio River , at a point within the jurisdiction of that State ...
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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?