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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... 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 President or
Vice President, either for a member of Congress or a member of a State
Legislature.
... 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 President or
Vice President, either for a member of Congress or a member of a State
Legislature.
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Here is a constitutional mandate positively enjoining a duty on the several State
legislatures. ... Whilst, then, the constitution unequivocally commands the
legislature of each State to prescribe regulations, it authorizes no interference on
the ...
Here is a constitutional mandate positively enjoining a duty on the several State
legislatures. ... Whilst, then, the constitution unequivocally commands the
legislature of each State to prescribe regulations, it authorizes no interference on
the ...
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If, then, it has been clearly established that the duty enjoined on the legislature of
each is to be performed primarily, ontocedently, and independently; and that the
power of Congress is secondary in character, and ultimate in exercise, it would ...
If, then, it has been clearly established that the duty enjoined on the legislature of
each is to be performed primarily, ontocedently, and independently; and that the
power of Congress is secondary in character, and ultimate in exercise, it would ...
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It is irreconcilable with the relations of mutual independence existing between the
respective legislatures. ... argument that this second section made or altered such
regulations as had been prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof.
It is irreconcilable with the relations of mutual independence existing between the
respective legislatures. ... argument that this second section made or altered such
regulations as had been prescribed in each State by the legislature thereof.
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Can a State legislature, as a body, or the members individually who compose it,
for refusing to execute the mandate, ... Viewed in the light of a command directed
to the State legislatures, directing the adoption of the district system, and ...
Can a State legislature, as a body, or the members individually who compose it,
for refusing to execute the mandate, ... Viewed in the light of a command directed
to the State legislatures, directing the adoption of the district system, and ...
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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...