American Quarterly Review, Volumen2Robert Walsh Carey, Lea & Carey, 1827 |
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... evidence of unimpeachable veracity . The book is scarce and little known ; but , it is to works of a simi- lar character , that the readers of the United States , who love their country , should resort to receive a lesson of the crimes ...
... evidence of unimpeachable veracity . The book is scarce and little known ; but , it is to works of a simi- lar character , that the readers of the United States , who love their country , should resort to receive a lesson of the crimes ...
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... evidence of the rising importance , as well as increasing intelli- gence of the people . Kings have ceased to be gods , and their subjects are about to become men . These constituted the two extremes , in the tenth century ; in the ...
... evidence of the rising importance , as well as increasing intelli- gence of the people . Kings have ceased to be gods , and their subjects are about to become men . These constituted the two extremes , in the tenth century ; in the ...
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... evidence of their senses convinced them that such adventures , and above all , such people as some of those who exercise so powerful an agency in that work , never were connected with events so recent , and scenes so near , as the ...
... evidence of their senses convinced them that such adventures , and above all , such people as some of those who exercise so powerful an agency in that work , never were connected with events so recent , and scenes so near , as the ...
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... evidence of its having once existed , and credulity is ever irresistibly fortified by a reference to this solitary example . But the age of witchcraft soon passed away from among them , and it is not the least singular fact , that it ...
... evidence of its having once existed , and credulity is ever irresistibly fortified by a reference to this solitary example . But the age of witchcraft soon passed away from among them , and it is not the least singular fact , that it ...
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... evidence of its not being a part of the capital of the country . It certainly cannot be a part of his own capital ; but it may belong to the capital of another . So the menial services rendered to a farmer or mechanic , or more pro ...
... evidence of its not being a part of the capital of the country . It certainly cannot be a part of his own capital ; but it may belong to the capital of another . So the menial services rendered to a farmer or mechanic , or more pro ...
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Página 176 - Those then who controvert the principle that the Constitution is to be considered, in court, as a paramount law, are reduced to the necessity of maintaining that courts must close their eyes on the Constitution and see only the law.
Página 175 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and, consequently, the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void.
Página 176 - Constitution disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty. If then the courts are to regard the Constitution, and the Constitution is superior to any ordinary act of the legislature, the Constitution and not such ordinary act must govern the case to which they both apply.
Página 176 - So if a law be in opposition to the constitution; if both the law and the constitution apply to a particular case ; so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the constitution; or conformably to the constitution, disregarding the law; the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Página 163 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
Página 333 - THERE was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gathered then Her beauty and her Chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes looked love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage-bell; But hush ! hark ! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell.
Página 445 - The Tenth Muse Lately sprung up in America. Or Several! Poems, compiled with great variety of Wit and Learning, full of delight. Wherein especially is contained a compleat discourse and description of The Four Elements, Constitutions, Ages of Man, Seasons of the Year. Together with an Exact Epitomie of the Four Monarchies, viz. The Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, Roman. Also a Dialogue between Old England and New, concerning the late troubles. With divers other pleasant and serious Poems. By a Gentlewoman...
Página 176 - It would be giving to the Legislature a practical and real omnipotence with the same breath which professes to restrict their powers within narrow limits. It is prescribing limits and declaring that those limits may be passed at pleasure. That it thus reduces to nothing what we have deemed the greatest improvement on political institutions, a written Constitution, would of itself be sufficient in America, where written Constitutions have been viewed with so much reverence, for rejecting the construction.
Página 174 - The question whether an act repugnant to the Constitution can become the law of the land is a question deeply interesting to the United States; but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles supposed to have been long and well established to decide it.
Página 175 - This original and supreme will organizes the government, and assigns to different departments their respective powers. It may either stop here or establish certain limits not to be transcended by those departments.