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 regard to the Secretaries of Departments, the Attorney General, the District
Attorneys, the publishers of the laws, to say nothing of the members of this House
and the other, the very public men who possess the greatest powers, and can ...
With regard to the Secretaries of Departments, the Attorney General, the District
Attorneys, the publishers of the laws, to say nothing of the members of this House
and the other, the very public men who possess the greatest powers, and can ...
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The popular movement and the popular indignation were not expressive of
hostility to the district system, if the States chose to adopt it, but were directed
against the act as one of usurped power &nd presumptuous dictation. A design
was ...
The popular movement and the popular indignation were not expressive of
hostility to the district system, if the States chose to adopt it, but were directed
against the act as one of usurped power &nd presumptuous dictation. A design
was ...
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If, then, the declaration contained in the second section—that the members to
which each State shall be entitled, shall be elected by districts—is a rule
prescribed, or a command directed to State legislatures, it has no foundstion,
sanction, ...
If, then, the declaration contained in the second section—that the members to
which each State shall be entitled, shall be elected by districts—is a rule
prescribed, or a command directed to State legislatures, it has no foundstion,
sanction, ...
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eral States shall be elected by districts. Shall is of the future tense; and being
used in the third person, may convey a threat or command, and imply compulsion
. Although not expressed, it is well understood; and in this sense has been
argued, ...
eral States shall be elected by districts. Shall is of the future tense; and being
used in the third person, may convey a threat or command, and imply compulsion
. Although not expressed, it is well understood; and in this sense has been
argued, ...
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... of argument, that the “manner of holding elections” & ** {:} ...to 3 applies to the
district, and to the general-ticket systerm; ... in declaring that the representatives “
shall be elected” by districts, intended only a general direction, induced by the ...
... of argument, that the “manner of holding elections” & ** {:} ...to 3 applies to the
district, and to the general-ticket systerm; ... in declaring that the representatives “
shall be elected” by districts, intended only a general direction, induced by the ...
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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...