Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volumen9;Volumen56Gales & Seaton, 1838 |
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... taken up . SENATE . ] Commercial Statements . [ DECEMBER 17 ,. DECEMBER 13 , 1832. ] [ SENATE . ON THE POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS -- Messrs . Grun- dy , Hill , Ewing , Tomlinson , and Buckner . ON ROADS AND CANALS -- Messrs . Hendricks ...
... taken up . SENATE . ] Commercial Statements . [ DECEMBER 17 ,. DECEMBER 13 , 1832. ] [ SENATE . ON THE POST OFFICE AND POST ROADS -- Messrs . Grun- dy , Hill , Ewing , Tomlinson , and Buckner . ON ROADS AND CANALS -- Messrs . Hendricks ...
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... taken on the motion to reconsi- der ; which was decided in the negative — ayes 17 , noes 18 . And the Senate adjourned to Monday . MONDAY , DECEMBER 17 . Mr. POINDEXTER offered the following resolution : Resolved , That the Secretary of ...
... taken on the motion to reconsi- der ; which was decided in the negative — ayes 17 , noes 18 . And the Senate adjourned to Monday . MONDAY , DECEMBER 17 . Mr. POINDEXTER offered the following resolution : Resolved , That the Secretary of ...
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... taken up , Mr. SMITH requested that the resolution might lie over for the present to allow time for examination . Mr. POINDEXTER said that he had no objection to suffer the resolution to lie over . But as it was necessary , on account ...
... taken up , Mr. SMITH requested that the resolution might lie over for the present to allow time for examination . Mr. POINDEXTER said that he had no objection to suffer the resolution to lie over . But as it was necessary , on account ...
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... taken up and disposed of together . Two of the Committees of the other House , as he was informed , had been for some time past engaged in Mr. POINDEXTER again rose to reply . He had the preparation of a bill on this subject , and had ...
... taken up and disposed of together . Two of the Committees of the other House , as he was informed , had been for some time past engaged in Mr. POINDEXTER again rose to reply . He had the preparation of a bill on this subject , and had ...
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... taken on the motion to consider the resolution , and decided as follows : YEAS . - Messrs . Bell , Bibb , Clayton , Dickerson , Ew- ing , Foot , Frelinghuysen , Hendricks , Holmes , Knight , Miller , Moore , Poindexter , Prentiss ...
... taken on the motion to consider the resolution , and decided as follows : YEAS . - Messrs . Bell , Bibb , Clayton , Dickerson , Ew- ing , Foot , Frelinghuysen , Hendricks , Holmes , Knight , Miller , Moore , Poindexter , Prentiss ...
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Página 285 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Página 357 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 273 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Página 425 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Página 315 - States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Página 297 - If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary. In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this : you must first enable the government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Página 231 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Página 393 - ... that all acts of the United States in Congress, made by virtue and in pursuance of the powers hereby, and by the Articles of Confederation, vested in them, and all treaties made and ratified under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the respective States, so far forth as those acts or treaties shall relate to the said States or their citizens ; and that the Judiciary of the several States shall be bound thereby in their decisions, any thing in the respective laws of...
Página 161 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States, as have become or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Página 273 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...