A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof: Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General ReadersHarper & brothers, 1840 - 372 páginas "Containing a brief commentary on every clause, explaining the true nature, reasons, and objects thereof ; designed for the use of school libraries and general readers ; with an appendix, containing important public documents, illustrative of the Constitution."--T.p. |
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... common principle , that the exclusive use gave them an exclusive right to the soil , whether it was cultivated or not . § 4. It is difficult to perceive , why their title was not , in this respect , as well founded as the title of any ...
... common principle , that the exclusive use gave them an exclusive right to the soil , whether it was cultivated or not . § 4. It is difficult to perceive , why their title was not , in this respect , as well founded as the title of any ...
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... common socage , and not in capite , ( as it was technically called , ) that is to say , by a free and certain tenure , as contradistinguished from a military and a servile tenure , —a privilege of ines- timable value , as those , who ...
... common socage , and not in capite , ( as it was technically called , ) that is to say , by a free and certain tenure , as contradistinguished from a military and a servile tenure , —a privilege of ines- timable value , as those , who ...
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... common law of England , as far as it was applicable to their situation , was made the basis of their jurisprudence ; and that law was asserted at all times by them to be their birthright and inheritance . § 15. It may be asked , how the ...
... common law of England , as far as it was applicable to their situation , was made the basis of their jurisprudence ; and that law was asserted at all times by them to be their birthright and inheritance . § 15. It may be asked , how the ...
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... common law was first introduced into the Colonies , and also be better enabled to understand the true nature and reason of the exceptions to it , which are to be found in the laws and usages of the different Col- > nies . The general ...
... common law was first introduced into the Colonies , and also be better enabled to understand the true nature and reason of the exceptions to it , which are to be found in the laws and usages of the different Col- > nies . The general ...
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... common law became the guardian of their civil and political rights ; it protected their infant liberties ; it watched over their maturer growth ; it expanded with their wants ; it nour- ished in them that spirit of independence , which ...
... common law became the guardian of their civil and political rights ; it protected their infant liberties ; it watched over their maturer growth ; it expanded with their wants ; it nour- ished in them that spirit of independence , which ...
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Página 337 - 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 286 - States, and to appropriate and apply the same for defraying the public expenses; to borrow money or emit bills on the credit of the United States, transmitting every half year to the respective States an account of the sums of money so borrowed or emitted; to build and equip a navy; to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each State for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such State...
Página 294 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Página 287 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Página 309 - ... employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, though often covertly and insidiously, directed, — it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Página 282 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which...
Página 321 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Página 308 - ... and for the opportunities I have thence enjoyed of manifesting my inviolable attachment, by services, faithful and persevering, though in usefulness unequal to my zeal. If benefits have resulted to our country from these services, let it always be remembered to your praise, and as an instructive example in our annals, that under circumstances in which the passions, agitated in every direction, were liable to mislead, amidst appearances sometimes dubious, vicissitudes of fortune often discouraging...
Página 311 - Hence likewise they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty. In this sense it is, that your union ought to be considered as a main prop of your liberty, and that the love of the one ought to endear to you the preservation of the other.
Página 282 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.