The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages, of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1857 ; Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. With an Appendix Containing the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States ... Also, the Constitutions of the Most Important States in the UnionJ.B. Smith & Company, 1857 - 255 páginas |
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... lature , to watch over and to promote their interests gene- rally . And the principles of action by which I shall endeavor to accomplish this circle of duties , it is now proper for me briefly to explain . In administering the laws of ...
... lature , to watch over and to promote their interests gene- rally . And the principles of action by which I shall endeavor to accomplish this circle of duties , it is now proper for me briefly to explain . In administering the laws of ...
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... lature of the states concerned , as well as of the Congress . 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and ...
... lature of the states concerned , as well as of the Congress . 2. The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and ...
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... lature of the late province of the Massachusetts Bay . CHAPTER V. SECTION 2. - The Encouragement of Literature . Wisdom and knowledge , as well as virtue , diffused gen- erally among the body of the people , being necessary for the ...
... lature of the late province of the Massachusetts Bay . CHAPTER V. SECTION 2. - The Encouragement of Literature . Wisdom and knowledge , as well as virtue , diffused gen- erally among the body of the people , being necessary for the ...
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... All officers commissioned to command in the militia , may be removed from office in such manner as the legis lature may , by law , prescribe . Art . 5. In the election of captains and subalterns 54 CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS .
... All officers commissioned to command in the militia , may be removed from office in such manner as the legis lature may , by law , prescribe . Art . 5. In the election of captains and subalterns 54 CONSTITUTION OF MASSACHUSETTS .
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... lature , at its first session after the adoption of this Con- stitution , shall appoint three commissioners , whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this State , or so much and ...
... lature , at its first session after the adoption of this Con- stitution , shall appoint three commissioners , whose duty it shall be to reduce into a written and systematic code the whole body of the law of this State , or so much and ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 26 - Observe good faith and justice towards all nations, cultivate peace and harmony with all; religion and morality enjoin this conduct, and can it be that good policy does not equally enjoin it? It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 133 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence...
Página 27 - Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
Página 56 - Every citizen may freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal prosecutions...
Página 22 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control; counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency.
Página 21 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay, by the adoption of a Constitution of Government better calculated than your former for an intimate Union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns.
Página 23 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Página 22 - They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation, the will of a party, often a small, but artful and enterprising minority of the community : and, according to the alternate triumphs of different parties, to make the public administration the mirror of the ill-concerted and incongruous projects of faction, rather than the organ of consistent and wholesome plans, digested by common councils, and modified by mutual...
Página 24 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Página 20 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.