The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1861 - 366 էջ |
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... authorities quoted ; further , the severity will be found to be limited to the fault , and not to extend to the man . The events im- pending are too grave for honied words . Our language is plain - spoken ; timidity , subserviency ...
... authorities quoted ; further , the severity will be found to be limited to the fault , and not to extend to the man . The events im- pending are too grave for honied words . Our language is plain - spoken ; timidity , subserviency ...
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... authorities on this subject No cause to prevent impartial judgment Material prosperity no sure test of institutions Decline of ability at the head of the State Payment of members . - Political corruption . Unqualified suffrage and ...
... authorities on this subject No cause to prevent impartial judgment Material prosperity no sure test of institutions Decline of ability at the head of the State Payment of members . - Political corruption . Unqualified suffrage and ...
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... authorities ? And if forced to admit such facts as these , they must exercise no light weight , when we are employed in forming a judgment of these institutions . Had our own Government fallen into such a condition , we should assuredly ...
... authorities ? And if forced to admit such facts as these , they must exercise no light weight , when we are employed in forming a judgment of these institutions . Had our own Government fallen into such a condition , we should assuredly ...
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... authorities , remarks , in his Commentaries : " The progress and impulse of popular opinion is rapidly destroying every con- stitutional check , every conservative element , intended by the sages who framed the earliest American ...
... authorities , remarks , in his Commentaries : " The progress and impulse of popular opinion is rapidly destroying every con- stitutional check , every conservative element , intended by the sages who framed the earliest American ...
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... authority none will dispute . He speaks thus , in a letter to Read : " Such dearth of public spirit , and such want of virtue ; such stock - jobbing , and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantage of one kind or another , in ...
... authority none will dispute . He speaks thus , in a letter to Read : " Such dearth of public spirit , and such want of virtue ; such stock - jobbing , and fertility in all the low arts to obtain advantage of one kind or another , in ...
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Էջ 356 - Congress shall make. 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 357 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Էջ 38 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Էջ 351 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Էջ 334 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Էջ 335 - No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or any other for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Էջ 354 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Էջ 352 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Էջ 328 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Էջ 340 - ... office — appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. THE United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...