The Liberties of AmericaG.P. Putman, 1853 - 280 páginas |
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Página 30 - And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land ? Shall oppressed humanity find no asylum on this globe?
Página 274 - Ces auteurs pensent que la bonne foi qui doit régner dans le contrat de vente n'oblige le vendeur à autre chose qu'à faire connaître à l'acheteur la chose qu'il lui vend pour ce qu'elle est, sans lui rien dissimuler de ses défauts, et à ne la pas vendre audelà du prix qu'elle a lors du contrat ; qu'il ne commet aucune injustice en la vendant à ce prix, quoiqu'il sache que ce prix doive de beaucoup diminuer par la suite; qu'il n'est pas obligé de faire part à l'acheteur de la connaissance...
Página 136 - ... for their rights, titles and duties; also men married have lost their tenancies by the curtesy, women their dowers, manifest perjuries by trial of such secret wills and uses have been committed ; the king's highness hath lost the profits and advantages of the lands of persons attainted, and of the lands craftily put in...
Página 136 - ... and scantly any person can be certainly assured of any lands by them purchased, nor know surely against whom they shall use their actions or executions for their rights, titles and duties; also men married have lost their tenancies by the...
Página 163 - ... people, in their capacity of electors, may do all that is within the proper scope of the franchise ; but it is usurpation to do more. And this enables us to condemn without reserve an opinion strangely prevalent in some parts of the country, to the effect that when a man is chosen to an office, and especially an office of legislation, it is the right of his constituents to have pledges from him as to the measures he will advocate or oppose in public life ; and even to come upon him afterwards,...
Página 136 - ... by trial of such secret wills and uses have been committed ; the king's highness hath lost the profits and advantages of the lands of persons attainted, and of the lands craftily put in feoffment to the uses of aliens born, and also the profits of waste for a year and a day of lands of felons attainted, and the lords their escheats...
Página 207 - Citizens under our Constitution and laws mean free inhabitants born within the United States or naturalized under the laws of Congress.
Página 30 - Considering the ordinary chances of human life," he observed, " a denial of citizenship under a residence of fourteen years is a denial to a great portion of those who ask it, and controls a policy pursued from their first settlement by many of the States, and still believed to be of consequence to their prosperity. And shall we refuse the unhappy fugitives from distress that hospitality which the savages of the wilderness extended to our fathers arriving in this land...
Página 185 - that we must take the world as it is, and make the best of it ". Ganz interessant ist es, um von unzähligen Stimmen über diesen Gegenstand nur zwei zu Worte kommen zu lassen, über die Möglichkeit einer natürlichen Theologie zwei, von so ganz verschiedenen Voraussetzungen ausgehende Denker, wie Bischof Whately und J.
Página 55 - Grenville, for the purpose of forming an extended and combined administration. " I hope, therefore, that your lordship, in consequence of this communication, will come to town in order that as little time as possible may be lost in forwarding this important object, and that you will have the goodness to inform me of your arrival.