The Constitution a Pro-slavery Compact: Or, Extracts from the Madison Papers, EtcWendell Phillips American anti-slavery society, 1856 - 208 páginas |
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... authority in such matters , has ever pretended to doubt to what subject they all relate . If indeed they were ambiguous in their terms , a resort to the history of those times would set the matter at rest forever . A few persons , to be ...
... authority in such matters , has ever pretended to doubt to what subject they all relate . If indeed they were ambiguous in their terms , a resort to the history of those times would set the matter at rest forever . A few persons , to be ...
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... authority to settle their meaning for them ? If , then , the people and the courts of a country are to be allowed to determine what their own laws mean , it follows that at this time , and for the last half century , the Constitution of ...
... authority to settle their meaning for them ? If , then , the people and the courts of a country are to be allowed to determine what their own laws mean , it follows that at this time , and for the last half century , the Constitution of ...
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... authority vested in Congress to restrain the States in the in- terval of twenty years from doing what they please . If they wish to inhibit such importation , they may do so . Our next assembly may put an entire end to the importation ...
... authority vested in Congress to restrain the States in the in- terval of twenty years from doing what they please . If they wish to inhibit such importation , they may do so . Our next assembly may put an entire end to the importation ...
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... authority is granted , and it is admit- . ted on all hands , that the General Government has no powers but what are expressly granted by the Constitution ; and that all rights not expressed were reserved by the several States . We have ...
... authority is granted , and it is admit- . ted on all hands , that the General Government has no powers but what are expressly granted by the Constitution ; and that all rights not expressed were reserved by the several States . We have ...
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... authority which will give great satisfaction . On the one hand , you may acquire revenue , and on the other , re- strain a practice productive of great evil . Now , setting aside the religious motives which influenced their application ...
... authority which will give great satisfaction . On the one hand , you may acquire revenue , and on the other , re- strain a practice productive of great evil . Now , setting aside the religious motives which influenced their application ...
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Página 165 - Shall I not visit for these things ? saith the Lord : shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?
Página 13 - He has waged cruel war against human nature itself, violating its most sacred rights of life and liberty in the persons of a distant people who never offended him, captivating and carrying them into slavery in another hemisphere, or to incur miserable death in their transportation thither.
Página 14 - All charges of war, and all other expenses that shall be incurred for the common defence or general welfare, and allowed by the united states in congress assembled, shall be defrayed out of a common treasury, which shall be supplied by the several states...
Página 162 - Take counsel, execute judgment; Make thy shadow as the night in the midst of the noonday ; Hide the outcasts ; bewray not him that wandereth. Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab ; Be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler : For the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, The oppressors are consumed out of the land.
Página 163 - But this is a people robbed and spoiled; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses; they are for a prey, and none delivereth, for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.
Página 192 - That, in addition to the provisions of the third paragraph of the second section of the fourth article of the Constitution of the United States...
Página 23 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Página 73 - For he that is called in the Lord, being a servant, is the Lord's freeman : likewise also he that is called, being free, is Christ's servant 23 Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.
Página 154 - The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceeding great, and the land is full of blood, and the city full of perverseness: for they say, The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not.
Página 163 - That they may do evil with both hands earnestly, the prince asketh, and the judge asketh for a reward; and the great man, he uttereth his mischievous desire: so they wrap it up.