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, Volumen1Little, Brown,, 1891 - 1550 páginas |
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... assembly , composed of representatives from the various plantations in the colony , and permitted them to assume and exercise the high functions of legislation.2 Thus was formed and established the first representative legislature that ...
... assembly , composed of representatives from the various plantations in the colony , and permitted them to assume and exercise the high functions of legislation.2 Thus was formed and established the first representative legislature that ...
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... assembly composed of representatives freely chosen by the people . Each branch of the legislature might decide by a majority of voices , and a negative was reserved to the governor . But no law was to be in force , though approved by ...
... assembly composed of representatives freely chosen by the people . Each branch of the legislature might decide by a majority of voices , and a negative was reserved to the governor . But no law was to be in force , though approved by ...
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... assembly was mentioned ; and there is little reason to suppose that James the First , who , besides his arbitrary notions of government , im- puted the recent disasters to the existence of such an assembly , ever intended to revive it ...
... assembly was mentioned ; and there is little reason to suppose that James the First , who , besides his arbitrary notions of government , im- puted the recent disasters to the existence of such an assembly , ever intended to revive it ...
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... assembly clothed with supreme legislative authority ; and to establish courts of justice , whose proceedings should be guided by the forms of the parent country . The rights of Englishmen were thus in a great measure secured to the ...
... assembly clothed with supreme legislative authority ; and to establish courts of justice , whose proceedings should be guided by the forms of the parent country . The rights of Englishmen were thus in a great measure secured to the ...
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... assembly ; and when raised , they were to be applied according to the appointment of the legislature . The burgesses also during their attendance upon the assembly were free from arrest . In respect to domestic trade , a general free ...
... assembly ; and when raised , they were to be applied according to the appointment of the legislature . The burgesses also during their attendance upon the assembly were free from arrest . In respect to domestic trade , a general free ...
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Página xl - Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection laws : and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on imports or...
Página 279 - At the same time, the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the government upon vital questions, affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made, in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 774 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The Government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the Government, while / shall have the most solemn one to " preserve, protect, and defend it.
Página 199 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all— Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Página 755 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Página 440 - Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests ; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates ; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole ; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed ; but when you have chosen him he is not a member of Bristol,...
Página 321 - The powers not delegated to the United States are reserved to the states, respectively, or to the people.' The government of the United States, therefore, can claim no powers which are not granted to it by the constitution, and the powers actually granted must be such as are expressly given, or given by necessary implication.
Página 771 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government, and to collect the duties and imposts ; but, beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Página 258 - Constitution, but it may be not unreasonably said that the preservation of the States, and the maintenance of their governments, are as much within the design and care of the Constitution as the preservation of the Union and the maintenance of the National government. The Constitution, in all its provisions, looks to an indestructible Union, composed of indestructible States.
Página 172 - The United States in Congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...