The Rebellion Record: A Diary of American Events, with Documents, Narratives, Illustrative Incidents, Poetry, Etc, Volumen2Frank Moore G.P. Putnam, 1862 |
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... Constitution and laws , and as soon as this is accomplished , the war ought to cease . the recent Government , and flight of the Gov - 1 days ago to intercept their retreat . - N . Y. ernor and other State officers from the Capital ...
... Constitution and laws , and as soon as this is accomplished , the war ought to cease . the recent Government , and flight of the Gov - 1 days ago to intercept their retreat . - N . Y. ernor and other State officers from the Capital ...
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... Constitution was to limit the power of the people . Both in the mode of its election and its appointment of its representative power , the Senate is essentially an aristocratic and conservative body , while the clause in the Constitution ...
... Constitution was to limit the power of the people . Both in the mode of its election and its appointment of its representative power , the Senate is essentially an aristocratic and conservative body , while the clause in the Constitution ...
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... Constitution , asking only that it be perfected and developed in harmony with its native spirit . We are attached to our monarchy , and should start at the idea of exchanging the throne for a President's chair . Are we to infer that ...
... Constitution , asking only that it be perfected and developed in harmony with its native spirit . We are attached to our monarchy , and should start at the idea of exchanging the throne for a President's chair . Are we to infer that ...
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... Constitution , please put it also on its limitations , if any can be found . Upon this principle , Congress may ac- quire an empire outside of the organized States , over which it may exercise unlimited power , governing it as the Roman ...
... Constitution , please put it also on its limitations , if any can be found . Upon this principle , Congress may ac- quire an empire outside of the organized States , over which it may exercise unlimited power , governing it as the Roman ...
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... constitutional principle that Congress shall not legislate for the Territories at all , or the adop- tion of a principle unknown to the Constitution , which , in its general application , would not only defeat the object it is advanced ...
... constitutional principle that Congress shall not legislate for the Territories at all , or the adop- tion of a principle unknown to the Constitution , which , in its general application , would not only defeat the object it is advanced ...
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Términos y frases comunes
advance arms army artillery attack battery battle Beauregard Blackburn's Ford bridge brigade Bull Run camp cannon Capt Captain captured cavalry Centreville citizens Colonel column command companies Confederate Congress Constitution declared division duty enemy enemy's engaged Executive Fairfax Court House Federal field fight fire flag flank force ford Fortress Monroe front Government guard guns Hampton's Legion head-quarters Heintzelman hill honor horses hundred infantry July July 23 killed Lieut Lieutenant Major Manassas Manassas Junction mand McClellan McDowell ment miles military Missouri morning nation North o'clock officers party passed patriotic position President prisoners rear rebellion rebels regi regiment retreat Richmond rifled road secession Second sent shot side skirmishers slave soldiers South South Carolina Southern Tennessee thousand tion to-day troops Tyler Union United Virginia Volunteers wagons Warrenton turnpike Washington woods wounded York Zouaves
Pasajes populares
Página 177 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Página 314 - Member. (3.) Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Página 178 - Government. The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Página 132 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each State, by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Página 318 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Página 314 - House shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members, and a majority of each shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may be authorized to compel the attendance of absent members, in such manner and under such penalties as each House may provide.
Página 132 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding ... . the American people into one common mass.
Página 203 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Página 132 - The assent of the states, in their sovereign capacity, is implied in calling a convention, and thus submitting that instrument to the people. But the people were at perfect liberty to accept or reject it; and their act was final. It required not the affirmance, and could not be negatived, by the state governments. The constitution, when thus adopted, was of complete obligation, and bound the state sovereignties.
Página 217 - Must a government of necessity be too strong for the liberties of its own people, or too weak to maintain its own existence?