Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the ... Session of the ... Congress, Volumen1;Volumen8Gales & Seaton, 1833 |
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... Government . Mr. C. said this class of claims was fir beginning of the Government up to the commencement brought forward by the State of Maryland , and her ex of the 14th Congress , to which date ( 4th March , 1815 , ample was followed ...
... Government . Mr. C. said this class of claims was fir beginning of the Government up to the commencement brought forward by the State of Maryland , and her ex of the 14th Congress , to which date ( 4th March , 1815 , ample was followed ...
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... Government for the last nine years [ Mr. BENTON ] had taken his seat in the Senate at the ses- did not exceed the sum of twelve and a half millions . But , sion of 1821-22 ; of course the expenditures for the year said the Senator , the ...
... Government for the last nine years [ Mr. BENTON ] had taken his seat in the Senate at the ses- did not exceed the sum of twelve and a half millions . But , sion of 1821-22 ; of course the expenditures for the year said the Senator , the ...
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... Government , had decrease of $ 344,469 between these periods . This de- crease could be rendered much greater , if the other extra- ordinary expenditures to which I have referred were also deducted in the comparison . The subsequent ...
... Government , had decrease of $ 344,469 between these periods . This de- crease could be rendered much greater , if the other extra- ordinary expenditures to which I have referred were also deducted in the comparison . The subsequent ...
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... Government land . Mr. B. said that a remark of his , in a former at the period which I had in my eye . But the pensions debate , seemed to have been the occasion of the elaborate have not yet totally ceased ; they are much diminished ...
... Government land . Mr. B. said that a remark of his , in a former at the period which I had in my eye . But the pensions debate , seemed to have been the occasion of the elaborate have not yet totally ceased ; they are much diminished ...
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... Government to be utterly incapable , from its posi- protecting system is of recent origin . Up to 1824 , the tion , of exercising such a power wisely , prudently , or question had not been much considered , simply because justly . Are ...
... Government to be utterly incapable , from its posi- protecting system is of recent origin . Up to 1824 , the tion , of exercising such a power wisely , prudently , or question had not been much considered , simply because justly . Are ...
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Página 103 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens — a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Página 449 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time...
Página 449 - A just estimate of that love of power, and proneness to abuse it, which predominates in the human heart, is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern : some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them...
Página 449 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 361 - Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things ; diffusing and diversifying, by gentle means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Página 471 - An Act to encourage the Importation of Pig and Bar Iron from his Majestie's Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Página 599 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Página 449 - In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.
Página 385 - ... resolved by the senate and house of representatives, that the president of the senate and speaker of the house of representatives, be authorized to close the present session by adjourning their respective houses on the day of...
Página 449 - Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...