Republican landmarks: the views and opinons of American statesmen on foreign immigrationJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1856 - 367 páginas |
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... vote or hold office . Many are , I admit , orderly , well - disposed men - but many of them are of the opposite character . It is believed the action of the Common Council in the premises is particularly desirable . Our citizens had no ...
... vote or hold office . Many are , I admit , orderly , well - disposed men - but many of them are of the opposite character . It is believed the action of the Common Council in the premises is particularly desirable . Our citizens had no ...
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... vote for members of the Ge peral Assembly , for the term of seven years , and until the Legislature shall , by spécial act for that purpose , enable such person so to do . And provided also , that all such aliens , or persons aforesaid ...
... vote for members of the Ge peral Assembly , for the term of seven years , and until the Legislature shall , by spécial act for that purpose , enable such person so to do . And provided also , that all such aliens , or persons aforesaid ...
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... vote at its elections . For without this provision , any one state could have given the right of citizenship in every other State ; and as every citizen of a State is also a citizen of the United States , a single State , without this ...
... vote at its elections . For without this provision , any one state could have given the right of citizenship in every other State ; and as every citizen of a State is also a citizen of the United States , a single State , without this ...
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... vote for members of the Legislature . So in Connecticut , it has been decided that as each State had the right to make citizens of such persons as it pleased , before the adoption of the Federal Constitution , and that as that ...
... vote for members of the Legislature . So in Connecticut , it has been decided that as each State had the right to make citizens of such persons as it pleased , before the adoption of the Federal Constitution , and that as that ...
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... vote being 41 to 40 . Joseph McDowell , of North Carolina , said : - " He hoped this blank would not be filled with so long a time . The residence now required from foreigners before they can become citizens is five years . He would not ...
... vote being 41 to 40 . Joseph McDowell , of North Carolina , said : - " He hoped this blank would not be filled with so long a time . The residence now required from foreigners before they can become citizens is five years . He would not ...
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Página 323 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 287 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none...
Página 342 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 323 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as .deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Página 322 - I have, in obedience to the public summons, repaired to the present station, it would be peculiarly improper to omit, in this first official act, my fervent supplications to that Almighty Being, who rules over the universe, who presides in the councils of nations, and whose providential aids can supply every human defect...
Página 344 - Treason, treason!" echoed from every part of the house. Henry faltered not for an instant, but, taking a loftier attitude, and fixing on the speaker an eye of fire, he added " may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it...
Página 81 - The Migration or Importation of such Persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the Year 1808, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person.
Página 89 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Página 222 - Legislature for the term of seven years with power to carry into execution the national laws to appoint to offices in cases not otherwise provided for to be ineligible a second time — and to be removable on impeachment and conviction of malpractice or neglect of duty...
Página 331 - 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...