Speech of Hon. Lewis Cass, of Michigan, on the President's Veto Message on the River and Harbor Appropriation Bills: Delivered in the Senate of the United States, July 7, 1856Printed at the Congressional globe office, 1856 - 21 páginas |
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... experience of yester- day may produce a change in our convictions of to - morrow . That the President's ideas upon this subject have gradually become more unfavorable to the exercise of the power is perfectly obvious , and that the ...
... experience of yester- day may produce a change in our convictions of to - morrow . That the President's ideas upon this subject have gradually become more unfavorable to the exercise of the power is perfectly obvious , and that the ...
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... experience has shown that this criticism upon expenditures - its fines , penalties , and punish- them is correct . Commerce , strictly speaking , is ments - its hosts of employes - and a system of traffic , the interchange of ...
... experience has shown that this criticism upon expenditures - its fines , penalties , and punish- them is correct . Commerce , strictly speaking , is ments - its hosts of employes - and a system of traffic , the interchange of ...
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... experience , and should be carefully studied by every one , who seeks to know through what a perilous crisis we passed before the glo- rious consummation of that " more perfect Union , " and of that security of the " blessings of ...
... experience , and should be carefully studied by every one , who seeks to know through what a perilous crisis we passed before the glo- rious consummation of that " more perfect Union , " and of that security of the " blessings of ...
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... experience has shown . " And this warning is applicable to other portions of the Union , as well as to the Mississippi valley . But , after all , experience is far from confirming the reproach of the wasteful expenditures made for these ...
... experience has shown . " And this warning is applicable to other portions of the Union , as well as to the Mississippi valley . But , after all , experience is far from confirming the reproach of the wasteful expenditures made for these ...
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... experience has sufficiently shown . Is such a road one of the " aids " which Congress may provide in order " to promote the revenue ? " And , if not , how is the principle to be preserved , while , in this case , the power is denied ...
... experience has sufficiently shown . Is such a road one of the " aids " which Congress may provide in order " to promote the revenue ? " And , if not , how is the principle to be preserved , while , in this case , the power is denied ...
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Página 12 - If, as has always been understood, the sovereignty of Congress, though limited to specified objects, is plenary as to those objects, the power over commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, is vested in Congress as absolutely as it would be in a single government, having in its constitution the same restrictions on the exercise of the power as are found in the constitution of the United States.
Página 6 - to raise and support Armies" and "to provide and maintain a Navy.
Página 12 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This 'power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution. These are expressed in plain terms, and do not affect the questions which arise in this case, or which have been discussed at the bar.
Página 7 - The power over commerce, including navigation, was one of the primary objects for which the people of America adopted their government, and must have been contemplated in forming it. The...
Página 13 - The power of Congress, then, comprehends navigation, within the limits of every State in the Union ; so far as that navigation may be, in any manner, connected with "commerce with foreign nations, or among the several States, or with the Indian tribes.
Página 12 - The wisdom and the discretion of congress, their identity with the people, and the influence which their constituents possess at elections, are, in this, as in many other instances, as that, for example, of declaring war, the sole restraints on which they have relied, to secure them from its abuse. They are the restraints on which the peop'le must often rely solely, in all representative governments.
Página 6 - We know of no rule for construing the extent of such powers, other than is given by the language of the instrument which confers them, taken in connection with the purposes for which they were conferred. The words are: "Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes.
Página 13 - ... cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burden, within their respective districts, as well as upon the high seas...
Página 6 - The word used in the constitution, then, comprehends, and has been always understood to comprehend, navigation within its meaning; and a power to regulate navigation, is as expressly granted, as if that term had been added to the word "commerce.
Página 11 - ... navigable waters; and that therefore the question of the facilities and aids to be provided to navigation, by whatsoever means, is but a subdivision of the great question of the constitutionality and expediency of internal improvements by the General Government. In confirmation of this it is to be remarked that one of the most important acts of appropriation of this class, that of the year 1833, under the Administration of President Jackson, by including together and providing for in one bill...