The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1862 - 391 páginas |
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... its shores . The writers of America may indeed be taken as an ensample , not of what its politicians are , but of those from whom they most widely differ . By what means , indeed , is a correct judgment vi PREFACE . CHAPTER.
... its shores . The writers of America may indeed be taken as an ensample , not of what its politicians are , but of those from whom they most widely differ . By what means , indeed , is a correct judgment vi PREFACE . CHAPTER.
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... judgment to be formed ? The great majority of English observers who have visited that country agree in their verdict . This might be national prejudice . But the great majority of French authors arrive at the same conclusions . Still ...
... judgment to be formed ? The great majority of English observers who have visited that country agree in their verdict . This might be national prejudice . But the great majority of French authors arrive at the same conclusions . Still ...
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... judgment Material prosperity no sure test of institutions Decline of ability at the head of the State Payment of members . -Political corruption . Unqualified suffrage and democratic excess . • Exclusion of ministers from Congress and ...
... judgment Material prosperity no sure test of institutions Decline of ability at the head of the State Payment of members . -Political corruption . Unqualified suffrage and democratic excess . • Exclusion of ministers from Congress and ...
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... judgment . Our object is , rather , to express the convictions at which we have arrived , accompanied by the facts and authorities which appear to substantiate them . And so far from preferring a claim to perfect neutrality , we hold ...
... judgment . Our object is , rather , to express the convictions at which we have arrived , accompanied by the facts and authorities which appear to substantiate them . And so far from preferring a claim to perfect neutrality , we hold ...
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... judgment , and diverted attention from the real facts . In endeavouring to form an opinion of the true value of the Union , one of the first questions that arises in the mind is whether this form of govern- ment - that of a Federal ...
... judgment , and diverted attention from the real facts . In endeavouring to form an opinion of the true value of the Union , one of the first questions that arises in the mind is whether this form of govern- ment - that of a Federal ...
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Página 356 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Página 34 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Página 351 - ... 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 hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Página 352 - 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...
Página 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 347 - 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 372 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Página 132 - 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 353 - 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...
Página 216 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.