A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof ; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionHarper & Brothers, 1847 - 372 էջ |
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... Commerce , CHAPTER XVII . Naturalization , Bankruptcy , and Coinage of Mon- ey , CHAPTER XVIII . Post Office and Post Roads . - Patents for Inven- 107 113 tions , 117 CHAPTER XIX . Punishment of Piracies and Felonies . - Declaration of ...
... Commerce , CHAPTER XVII . Naturalization , Bankruptcy , and Coinage of Mon- ey , CHAPTER XVIII . Post Office and Post Roads . - Patents for Inven- 107 113 tions , 117 CHAPTER XIX . Punishment of Piracies and Felonies . - Declaration of ...
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... commerce , and their other external concerns , or to legislate upon the common interests of the whole em- pire . On the other hand , the Crown claimed a right to ex- ercise many of its prerogatives in the Colonies ; and the British ...
... commerce , and their other external concerns , or to legislate upon the common interests of the whole em- pire . On the other hand , the Crown claimed a right to ex- ercise many of its prerogatives in the Colonies ; and the British ...
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... commerce , for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country , and the commercial benefits of its respective members , excluding every action of taxation , internal or external , for raising ...
... commerce , for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country , and the commercial benefits of its respective members , excluding every action of taxation , internal or external , for raising ...
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... commerce , either with foreign na- tions , or among the several States composing the Union . Commerce , both foreign and domestic , was left exclu- sively to the management of each particular State , accord- ing to its views of its own ...
... commerce , either with foreign na- tions , or among the several States composing the Union . Commerce , both foreign and domestic , was left exclu- sively to the management of each particular State , accord- ing to its views of its own ...
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... commerce was not only crippled , but almost destroyed , by this want of uniform laws to regulate it . Foreign na- tions imposed upon our navigation and trade just such restrictions , as they deemed best to their own interest and policy ...
... commerce was not only crippled , but almost destroyed , by this want of uniform laws to regulate it . Foreign na- tions imposed upon our navigation and trade just such restrictions , as they deemed best to their own interest and policy ...
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Էջ 334 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Էջ 300 - ... 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.
Էջ 112 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Էջ 142 - And in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Էջ 309 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your National Union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable, attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Էջ 286 - Congress shall judge sufficient, or being present, shall refuse to strike, the Congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of Congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Էջ 288 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses; to borrow money, or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective states an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...
Էջ 319 - So likewise, a passionate attachment of one nation for another produces a variety of evils. Sympathy for the favorite nation, facilitating the illusion of an imaginary common interest, in cases where no real common interest exists, and infusing into one the enmities of the other betrays the former into a participation in the quarrels and wars of the latter, without adequate inducement or justification.
Էջ 321 - Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand, neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Էջ 286 - ... judgment or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection,...