The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1750-1833. State sovereignty and slavery, 1889Callaghan, 1876 |
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... colonies from the mother country was only a question of time ; and this irrespective of the principles which might guide the colonial policy of England . The narrow and ungenerous conduct which parliament observed towards the colonies ...
... colonies from the mother country was only a question of time ; and this irrespective of the principles which might guide the colonial policy of England . The narrow and ungenerous conduct which parliament observed towards the colonies ...
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... colonies had been founded in very different times and under very different circumstances . Their whole course of development , their political institu1 Works of John Adams . X. , p . 394 . American Archives , III . , pp . 21 , 196 , 644 ...
... colonies had been founded in very different times and under very different circumstances . Their whole course of development , their political institu1 Works of John Adams . X. , p . 394 . American Archives , III . , pp . 21 , 196 , 644 ...
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... colonies , in consequence of the great extent of their territory , the scantiness of the population , ' and the poor means of transportation at the time , was so slight that the similarity of thought and feeling , which can be the ...
... colonies , in consequence of the great extent of their territory , the scantiness of the population , ' and the poor means of transportation at the time , was so slight that the similarity of thought and feeling , which can be the ...
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... colonies , " met in Philadelphia.2 Thus , long before the colonies thought of separation from the mother country , there was formed a revolutionary body , which virtually exercised sovereign power . How far the authority of this first ...
... colonies , " met in Philadelphia.2 Thus , long before the colonies thought of separation from the mother country , there was formed a revolutionary body , which virtually exercised sovereign power . How far the authority of this first ...
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... colonies , but as a moral person ; for to the extent that congress assumed power to itself and made bold to adopt measures national in their nature , to that extent the colonists declared themselves prepared henceforth to constitute one ...
... colonies , but as a moral person ; for to the extent that congress assumed power to itself and made bold to adopt measures national in their nature , to that extent the colonists declared themselves prepared henceforth to constitute one ...
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Página 47 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Página 146 - ... 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...
Página 204 - Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 196, 6 L. ed. 23, 70, where he said: "We are now arrived at the inquiry, What is this power? 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.
Página 163 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.
Página 76 - 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. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected...
Página 151 - ... the General Assembly doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid are unconstitutional ; — and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each for co-operating with this state, in maintaining unimpaired the authorities, rights, and liberties, reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Página 361 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Página 457 - The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties, and with the acts of Congress.
Página 420 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Página 493 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose...