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... population in the world.1 Therefore , on the ground of public policy , Southern legislatures were forbidden , by State constitutions , to enact general laws allowing the emancipation of slaves.2 Emancipation was occa- 1 For account of ...
... population in the world.1 Therefore , on the ground of public policy , Southern legislatures were forbidden , by State constitutions , to enact general laws allowing the emancipation of slaves.2 Emancipation was occa- 1 For account of ...
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... population by removal or otherwise . " " The General Assembly shall not emancipate any slave , or the descendant of any slave , either before or after the birth of such descendant . " Article IV , Sections 19 , 20 , 21 . 1 See Chap . 12 ...
... population by removal or otherwise . " " The General Assembly shall not emancipate any slave , or the descendant of any slave , either before or after the birth of such descendant . " Article IV , Sections 19 , 20 , 21 . 1 See Chap . 12 ...
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... population.1 Colonization would relieve the country of negroes , liberated either by act of Congress , or by an assembly . But in his message , the President formally declared that the Union must be preserved , and that " all indis ...
... population.1 Colonization would relieve the country of negroes , liberated either by act of Congress , or by an assembly . But in his message , the President formally declared that the Union must be preserved , and that " all indis ...
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... population , and that the government of Virginia convened at Wheeling , which the President had recognized and was supporting , was its true government . Therefore its assent to the division of the State com- plied with the provision of ...
... population , and that the government of Virginia convened at Wheeling , which the President had recognized and was supporting , was its true government . Therefore its assent to the division of the State com- plied with the provision of ...
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... population of the States in rebellion should be recognized as the body con- stituting these States and should be protected in organ- izing loyal governments . These necessarily took a mili- tary form , because the loyal inhabitants were ...
... population of the States in rebellion should be recognized as the body con- stituting these States and should be protected in organ- izing loyal governments . These necessarily took a mili- tary form , because the loyal inhabitants were ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Pasajes populares
Página 500 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Página 487 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Página 4 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Página 20 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Página 492 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Página 469 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New- York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina...
Página 73 - I will, in like manner, abide by and faithfully support all acts of congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by congress, or by decision of the supreme court...
Página 490 - No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president: neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 12 - Our popular government has often been called an experiment. Two points in it our people have already settled — the successful establishing and the successful administering of it. One still remains — its successful maintenance against a formidable internal attempt to overthrow it. It is now for them to demonstrate to the world that those who can fairly carry an election can also suppress a rebellion; that ballots are the rightful and peaceful successors of bullets; and that when ballots have fairly...
Página 483 - Nations; 11. To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12. To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13. To provide and maintain a Navy; 14.