Select Speeches of John Sergeant, of Pennsylvania [1818-1828]E.L. Carey & A. Hart, 1832 - 367 páginas |
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Página 96
... execute the law according to their own judgment . Your council of representatives will decide on this , or such other mode as may best suit you . I suggest these things , my chil dren , for the consideration of the Upper Towns of your ...
... execute the law according to their own judgment . Your council of representatives will decide on this , or such other mode as may best suit you . I suggest these things , my chil dren , for the consideration of the Upper Towns of your ...
Página 97
... executed as such . 2. That a sufficient " case " or " controversy " was pre- sented to call for the exercise of judicial power . What constituted such a case ? " A case in law or equity " is a term well understood , and of limited ...
... executed as such . 2. That a sufficient " case " or " controversy " was pre- sented to call for the exercise of judicial power . What constituted such a case ? " A case in law or equity " is a term well understood , and of limited ...
Página 99
... execute their own laws , is ex- clusive and absolute . It is extended expressly by treaty , as well as by the intercourse act , to persons going amongst them . This is the plain import of all the treaties , as well as of the intercourse ...
... execute their own laws , is ex- clusive and absolute . It is extended expressly by treaty , as well as by the intercourse act , to persons going amongst them . This is the plain import of all the treaties , as well as of the intercourse ...
Página 101
... executed , there will be no Cherokee boun- dary , no Cherokee nation , no Cherokee lands , no Cherokee treaties , no laws of the United States in the case . They will all be swept out of existence together , leaving nothing but the ...
... executed , there will be no Cherokee boun- dary , no Cherokee nation , no Cherokee lands , no Cherokee treaties , no laws of the United States in the case . They will all be swept out of existence together , leaving nothing but the ...
Página 102
... They do not present an abstract question . They do not present a political question . They do not come to demand in general terms the fulfilment of a treaty , nor to ask this court to enforce the execution of an active article . They 102.
... They do not present an abstract question . They do not present a political question . They do not come to demand in general terms the fulfilment of a treaty , nor to ask this court to enforce the execution of an active article . They 102.
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Página 85 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Página 25 - We are reduced to the alternative of choosing an unconditional submission to the tyranny of irritated ministers, or resistance by force. The latter is our choice. We have counted the cost of this contest, and find nothing so dreadful as voluntary slavery.
Página 244 - Were the face of the earth, he says, vacant of other plants, it might be gradually sowed and overspread with one kind only, as for instance with fennel; and were it empty of other inhabitants, it might in a few ages be replenished from one nation only, as for instance with Englishmen.
Página 99 - This clause enables the judicial department to receive jurisdiction to the full extent of the constitution, laws and treaties of the United States, when any question respecting them shall assume such a form that the judicial power is capable of acting on it. That power is capable of acting only when the subject is submitted to it by a party who asserts his rights in the form prescribed by law. It then becomes a case, and the constitution declares that the judicial power shall extend to all cases...
Página 185 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 193 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, that the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent...
Página 109 - They are the more naturally led to this conclusion, as, in the course of their reflections on the subject, they have been induced to think that the power of regulating trade is of such comprehensive extent, and will enter so far into the general system of the Federal Government, that to give it efficacy, and to obviate questions and doubts concerning its precise nature and limits, may require a correspondent adjustment of other parts of the federal system.
Página 31 - The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations...
Página 232 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 194 - ... by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever: and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government: Provided the constitution and government so to be formed, shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles...