The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1750-1833. State sovereignty and slavery, 1889Callaghan, 1876 |
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... reason why all my efforts thus far had resembled so much a wild - goose chase . Without being fully conscious of it , I expected to find in everything something particular , quite different from what was known to me either by study or ...
... reason why all my efforts thus far had resembled so much a wild - goose chase . Without being fully conscious of it , I expected to find in everything something particular , quite different from what was known to me either by study or ...
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... reason , and the only right policy . In the congress of 1774 he thus solemnly expressed himself : " Government is dis- solved . . . . . Where are your landmarks , your boundaries of colonies ? . . . . The distinctions between Virginians ...
... reason , and the only right policy . In the congress of 1774 he thus solemnly expressed himself : " Government is dis- solved . . . . . Where are your landmarks , your boundaries of colonies ? . . . . The distinctions between Virginians ...
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... Reason was unquestionably on the side of those who advocated the national view . " It has been said that con- gress is a representation of states , not of individuals . I say that the objects of its care are the individuals of the ...
... Reason was unquestionably on the side of those who advocated the national view . " It has been said that con- gress is a representation of states , not of individuals . I say that the objects of its care are the individuals of the ...
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... Reason compelled him to adopt the national view , and he defended it with great zeal so long as his feelings did not get the better of his under- standing . The moment , however , that he allowed his af fections to have sway , he gave ...
... Reason compelled him to adopt the national view , and he defended it with great zeal so long as his feelings did not get the better of his under- standing . The moment , however , that he allowed his af fections to have sway , he gave ...
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... reason.1 Adams said , in the debate on the articles of confedera- tion : " The confederacy is to make us one individual only ; it is to form us , like separate parcels of metal , into one com- mon mass . We shall no longer retain our ...
... reason.1 Adams said , in the debate on the articles of confedera- tion : " The confederacy is to make us one individual only ; it is to form us , like separate parcels of metal , into one com- mon mass . We shall no longer retain our ...
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Página 146 - ... 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 203 - 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 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 cisatlantic 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 288 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 159 - Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...
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 34 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
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 146 - ... that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its...
Página 9 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.