The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary for the Reference of the Politicians and Statesmen of the United StatesMichael W. Cluskey C. Wendell, 1857 - 636 páginas |
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... equal rights , strict justice , and economical III . That the Federal Government is one of limited powers , derived solely from the Constitution , and the grants of power therein ought to be strictly construed by all the de- partments ...
... equal rights , strict justice , and economical III . That the Federal Government is one of limited powers , derived solely from the Constitution , and the grants of power therein ought to be strictly construed by all the de- partments ...
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... real freemen , if we impose on another a chain that we defy all human power to fasten on ourselves . You believe and think otherwise , and doubtless with equal sincerity . We judge you not , and He alone ABOLITIONISTS AND REPUBLICANS . 27.
... real freemen , if we impose on another a chain that we defy all human power to fasten on ourselves . You believe and think otherwise , and doubtless with equal sincerity . We judge you not , and He alone ABOLITIONISTS AND REPUBLICANS . 27.
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... equal rights of man under the paternal roof ; see to it that they are taught in the schools and in the churches ; reform your own code ; extend a cordial welcome to the fugitive who lays his weary limbs at your door , and defend him as ...
... equal rights of man under the paternal roof ; see to it that they are taught in the schools and in the churches ; reform your own code ; extend a cordial welcome to the fugitive who lays his weary limbs at your door , and defend him as ...
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... equal , or for no Union at all , and I go for right . " " Let us remember that more than three millions of bondmen , groaning under name- less woes , demand that we shall cease to re- prove each other , and that we labor for their ...
... equal , or for no Union at all , and I go for right . " " Let us remember that more than three millions of bondmen , groaning under name- less woes , demand that we shall cease to re- prove each other , and that we labor for their ...
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... equal . 2. In all elections , not otherwise provided for by this constitution , every white male citizen of the United States , of the age of twenty - one years and upwards , who shall have resided in the state during the six months ...
... equal . 2. In all elections , not otherwise provided for by this constitution , every white male citizen of the United States , of the age of twenty - one years and upwards , who shall have resided in the state during the six months ...
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Página 47 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 47 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States...
Página 46 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Página 99 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Página 46 - Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of the states.
Página 43 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 110 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 222 - 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 313 - 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 powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common Judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 99 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.