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, 1873 - 737 páginas |
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... practical possession of liberty , at least with forms of government well cal- culated silently to cherish its spirit . 1 § 50. The laws of Virginia , during its colonial state , do not exhibit as many marked deviations , in the general ...
... practical possession of liberty , at least with forms of government well cal- culated silently to cherish its spirit . 1 § 50. The laws of Virginia , during its colonial state , do not exhibit as many marked deviations , in the general ...
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... practical sense , how- ever , the appellate jurisdiction of the king in council was in full and undisturbed exercise throughout the colonies at the time of the American Revolution ; and was deemed rather a protection than a grievance.6 ...
... practical sense , how- ever , the appellate jurisdiction of the king in council was in full and undisturbed exercise throughout the colonies at the time of the American Revolution ; and was deemed rather a protection than a grievance.6 ...
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... practical application of those doctrines might lead , in drying up the resources and prostrating the strength and prosperity of the colonies , drove them to a more close and narrow survey of the foundation of parliamentary supremacy ...
... practical application of those doctrines might lead , in drying up the resources and prostrating the strength and prosperity of the colonies , drove them to a more close and narrow survey of the foundation of parliamentary supremacy ...
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... , 1776 , p . 241 ; Journal , 1774 , pp . 27 , 45 . 5 2 Dall . 470 , 471 , per Jay , C. J .; 9 Dane's Abridg . App . § 12 , 13 , p . 23 , 24 . Britain . And this , not merely as a practical CH . I. ] 149 HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION .
... , 1776 , p . 241 ; Journal , 1774 , pp . 27 , 45 . 5 2 Dall . 470 , 471 , per Jay , C. J .; 9 Dane's Abridg . App . § 12 , 13 , p . 23 , 24 . Britain . And this , not merely as a practical CH . I. ] 149 HISTORY OF THE REVOLUTION .
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... practical fact , but in a legal and constitutional view of the matter by courts of justice.1 6 § 212. In the debates in the South Carolina legislature , in Jan- uary , 1788 , respecting the propriety of calling a convention of the ...
... practical fact , but in a legal and constitutional view of the matter by courts of justice.1 6 § 212. In the debates in the South Carolina legislature , in Jan- uary , 1788 , respecting the propriety of calling a convention of the ...
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Página xxiii - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
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Página xix - 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 163 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Página 734 - 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 137 - British parliament, they are entitled to a free and exclusive power of legislation in their several provincial legislatures, where their right of representation can alone be preserved, in all cases of taxation and internal polity subject only to the negative of their sovereign, in such manner as has been heretofore used and accustomed...