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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... give to Congress " the sole and exclusive " power ; but the proposition was rejected by the vote of six States against five . Journal of Convention , 220 , 270 . deliberation , that the power is exclusive in the government CH . XV . ] 9 ...
... give to Congress " the sole and exclusive " power ; but the proposition was rejected by the vote of six States against five . Journal of Convention , 220 , 270 . deliberation , that the power is exclusive in the government CH . XV . ] 9 ...
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... paid by the master , owner , or consignee for every such passenger . The master was also required to give bond to the mayor to save harm- such navigable streams or creeks , there would be little CH . XV . ] 15 POWERS OF CONGRESS COMMERCE .
... paid by the master , owner , or consignee for every such passenger . The master was also required to give bond to the mayor to save harm- such navigable streams or creeks , there would be little CH . XV . ] 15 POWERS OF CONGRESS COMMERCE .
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... give protection to manufactures , when revenue is the principal design ; and that it may also be applied to countervail the injurious regulations of foreign powers , when there is no design of revenue . These con- cessions admit , then ...
... give protection to manufactures , when revenue is the principal design ; and that it may also be applied to countervail the injurious regulations of foreign powers , when there is no design of revenue . These con- cessions admit , then ...
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... give every thing to Europe , without any equivalent ; and take , in return , whatever Europe may choose to give , upon its own terms ? The most servile pro- vincial dependence could not do more evils . Of what consequence would it be ...
... give every thing to Europe , without any equivalent ; and take , in return , whatever Europe may choose to give , upon its own terms ? The most servile pro- vincial dependence could not do more evils . Of what consequence would it be ...
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... give undue preferences to one class of creditors , as , for instance , to creditors by bond , or judgment ; another may provide for an equality of debts , and a distribution pro rata without dis- tinction among all . One may prefer ...
... give undue preferences to one class of creditors , as , for instance , to creditors by bond , or judgment ; another may provide for an equality of debts , and a distribution pro rata without dis- tinction among all . One may prefer ...
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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?