SPEECH OF MR. NORVELL, OF MICHIGAN, OF THE BILL OF MR. CRITTENDEN TO PREVENT THE INTERFERENCE OF CERTIAN FEDERAL OFFICERS IN ELECTIONS |
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No part of the Federal Constitution confers upon you any authority to interfere,
directly or indirectly, with the elective franchise in the States. You have no right to
prescribe the qualifications or conditions upon which any man may vote, either
for ...
No part of the Federal Constitution confers upon you any authority to interfere,
directly or indirectly, with the elective franchise in the States. You have no right to
prescribe the qualifications or conditions upon which any man may vote, either
for ...
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C. T; and opinion. Does the Constitution, in broadly and unqualifiedly prohibiting
Congress from abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, confer upon
Congress a power to punish twenty or thirty hoosand of your most ...
C. T; and opinion. Does the Constitution, in broadly and unqualifiedly prohibiting
Congress from abridging the freedom of speech or of the press, confer upon
Congress a power to punish twenty or thirty hoosand of your most ...
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Bnt, sir, I trust that a majority of this body will always be found prepared to resist
all such propositions, and that they will permit no demagogue to drag the Senate
into Such palpable infractions of the Constitution. The honorable Senator ...
Bnt, sir, I trust that a majority of this body will always be found prepared to resist
all such propositions, and that they will permit no demagogue to drag the Senate
into Such palpable infractions of the Constitution. The honorable Senator ...
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Does not the Federal Constitution prohibit certain officers from being elected to
seats in this or the other branch of Congress? And are not these disqualifications
? Sir, I am surprised that an argument so inapplicable to the enactments of this
bill ...
Does not the Federal Constitution prohibit certain officers from being elected to
seats in this or the other branch of Congress? And are not these disqualifications
? Sir, I am surprised that an argument so inapplicable to the enactments of this
bill ...
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It was uttered fifty years ago by the father of ultra-Federalism. in his treatise upon
the American Constitutions, he pronounced the British Constitution to be “the
most stupendous fabric of hutaking lis when ** : * v- or 2, . *!-, as ^* f. *-* * * in \{\}}
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It was uttered fifty years ago by the father of ultra-Federalism. in his treatise upon
the American Constitutions, he pronounced the British Constitution to be “the
most stupendous fabric of hutaking lis when ** : * v- or 2, . *!-, as ^* f. *-* * * in \{\}}
if?
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ADDRESS OF CHARLES H. ALLEN TO THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF PORTO ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1900 |
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Էջ 16 - Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states, or territory, the person to whom such labor, or service, may be due, his agent, or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing, or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Էջ 16 - That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney, in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney, when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.
Էջ 16 - Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every state in the Union into which they might escape from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding states; and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their domestic...