The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1852 |
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... gentlemen , are we to receive , the twig of a tree or the knocker of a door ? No , sir , I reply ; but possession of New Orleans , the capital , and its defence . By whom , will the honorable gentleman ask ? I answer , the same men who ...
... gentlemen , are we to receive , the twig of a tree or the knocker of a door ? No , sir , I reply ; but possession of New Orleans , the capital , and its defence . By whom , will the honorable gentleman ask ? I answer , the same men who ...
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... gentlemen considered our national honor so deeply impli- cated , and the rights of the western people so wantonly violated , that no atonement or redress was admissible , except through the medium of the bayonet . Negotiation was ...
... gentlemen considered our national honor so deeply impli- cated , and the rights of the western people so wantonly violated , that no atonement or redress was admissible , except through the medium of the bayonet . Negotiation was ...
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... gentlemen on this floor , understood the practice but half as well as she did the theory , a very different result would have been produced by her revolution . I believe , sir , there are a set of general causes which operate in every ...
... gentlemen on this floor , understood the practice but half as well as she did the theory , a very different result would have been produced by her revolution . I believe , sir , there are a set of general causes which operate in every ...
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... gentleman intend that the two the management of this business ? But greater trusts have been confided to former Presidents . which enabled the then President not only to raise Have gentlemen forgotten the law of 1798 or 1799 , an army ...
... gentleman intend that the two the management of this business ? But greater trusts have been confided to former Presidents . which enabled the then President not only to raise Have gentlemen forgotten the law of 1798 or 1799 , an army ...
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... gentleman from Del - two of the gentlemen have contended , not even aware who opened this debate ; the second , urged by several of the other members who have spoken upon the question . SENATE . The Louisiana Treaty . NOVEMBER , 1803 ...
... gentleman from Del - two of the gentlemen have contended , not even aware who opened this debate ; the second , urged by several of the other members who have spoken upon the question . SENATE . The Louisiana Treaty . NOVEMBER , 1803 ...
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Էջ 685 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Էջ 481 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Էջ 393 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states.
Էջ 253 - The General Assembly, or Legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be a quorum; and the members...
Էջ 745 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Էջ 745 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Էջ 135 - President, the vote shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote...
Էջ 283 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.
Էջ 213 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Էջ 519 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States...