Select American Speeches: Forensic and Parliamentary, with Prefatory Remarks : Being a Sequel to Dr. Chapman's Select Speeches, Volumen1J. W. Campbell, 1815 - 488 páginas |
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... at this time is to inquire , not how your trade may be increased , not how you are to become a great and powerful people , but how your liberties are to be secured ; for liberty ought to the Federal Constitution . 11.
... at this time is to inquire , not how your trade may be increased , not how you are to become a great and powerful people , but how your liberties are to be secured ; for liberty ought to the Federal Constitution . 11.
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... trade shall be given to congress , and that Virginia shall depend on congress even for passports , till she shall have paid the last farthing , and furnished the last soldier . Nay , sir , there is another alternative to which I will ...
... trade shall be given to congress , and that Virginia shall depend on congress even for passports , till she shall have paid the last farthing , and furnished the last soldier . Nay , sir , there is another alternative to which I will ...
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... trade . This makes it necessary to defend our com- merce : but how shall we accomplish this end ? England has risen ... trade is entirely in the hands of foreigners . We have no manufactures - depend for supplies on other nations , and ...
... trade . This makes it necessary to defend our com- merce : but how shall we accomplish this end ? England has risen ... trade is entirely in the hands of foreigners . We have no manufactures - depend for supplies on other nations , and ...
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... trade on her own terms : that the imbecility and inefficacy of our general government were such , that it was impossible we could counteract her policy , however rigid or illiberal towards us , her commercial regulations might be ...
... trade on her own terms : that the imbecility and inefficacy of our general government were such , that it was impossible we could counteract her policy , however rigid or illiberal towards us , her commercial regulations might be ...
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... trade would be but trivial . Great Britain , France , and Holland are greatly interested in car- rying on trade with us : those nations would disapprove of the measure ; and such evasions would be practised on such an occasion as would ...
... trade would be but trivial . Great Britain , France , and Holland are greatly interested in car- rying on trade with us : those nations would disapprove of the measure ; and such evasions would be practised on such an occasion as would ...
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Página 19 - That government is, or ought to be instituted for the common benefit, protection, and security of the people, nation, or community ; of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of...
Página 26 - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and can.
Página 87 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Página 9 - My political curiosity, exclusive of my anxious solicitude for the public welfare, leads me to ask, who authorized them to speak the language of, We, the People, instead of We, the States? States are the characteristics, and the soul of a confederation. If the states be not the agents of this compact, it must be one great consolidated national government of the people of all the states.
Página 148 - The existing system has been derived from the dependant, derivative authority of the legislatures of the states ; whereas this is derived from the superior power of the people. If we look at the manner in which alterations are to be made in it, the same idea is in some degree attended to. By the new system, a majority of the states cannot introduce amendments ; nor are all the states required for that purpose ; three fourths of them must concur in alterations; in this there is a departure from the...
Página 248 - Sir? — Have they not power to provide for the general defence and welfare? — May they not think that these call for the abolition of slavery?
Página 140 - States, and what are the sources of that diversity of sentiment which pervades its inhabitants, we shall find great danger to fear, that the same causes may terminate here, in the same fatal effects, which they produced in those republics. This danger ought to be wisely guarded against.
Página 25 - ... the community hath an indubitable, unalienable and indefeasible right to reform, alter or abolish government in such manner as shall be by that community judged most conducive to the public weal.
Página 130 - Our legislature will indeed be a ludicrous spectacle — one hundred and eighty men, marching in solemn, farcical procession, exhibiting a mournful proof of the lost liberty of their country, without the power of restoring it. But, sir, we have the consolation, that it is a mixed government ; that is, it may work sorely on your neck, but you will have some comfort by saying that it was a federal government in its origin.