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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... ment . Even under the confederation this power was expressly delegated . The remark is unquestionably just , that it is a power inseparably connected with that of raising a revenue , and with the duty of protection , which that power ...
... ment . Even under the confederation this power was expressly delegated . The remark is unquestionably just , that it is a power inseparably connected with that of raising a revenue , and with the duty of protection , which that power ...
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... ment of the Union has no direct power over that subject , and can make no law prescribing what shall constitute American vessels , or requiring that they shall be navigated by American seamen . Yet this power has been exercised from the ...
... ment of the Union has no direct power over that subject , and can make no law prescribing what shall constitute American vessels , or requiring that they shall be navigated by American seamen . Yet this power has been exercised from the ...
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... ment against the constitutionality of the embargo law . " Reminiscences of Dexter , by " Sigma , " No. 9 . When this scene took place , it was not so fully settled as it is now that juries in the federal courts are not the rightful ...
... ment against the constitutionality of the embargo law . " Reminiscences of Dexter , by " Sigma , " No. 9 . When this scene took place , it was not so fully settled as it is now that juries in the federal courts are not the rightful ...
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... ment of seamen on board of American ships ; and to conferring privileges upon ships built and owned in the United States in fostered and protected , is legitimately within the import of the phrase foreign com- merce , or fairly implied ...
... ment of seamen on board of American ships ; and to conferring privileges upon ships built and owned in the United States in fostered and protected , is legitimately within the import of the phrase foreign com- merce , or fairly implied ...
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... ment of the growth and manufacture of cotton and hemp for sails and rigging ; of timber , boards , and masts ; of tar , pitch , and tur- pentine ; of iron and wool ; of sheetings and shirtings ; of artisans and mechanics , however ...
... ment of the growth and manufacture of cotton and hemp for sails and rigging ; of timber , boards , and masts ; of tar , pitch , and tur- pentine ; of iron and wool ; of sheetings and shirtings ; of artisans and mechanics , however ...
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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?