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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... judgement of posterity . § 41. If , upon a close survey of their labors , as de- veloped in the actual structure of the Constitution , we shall have reason to admire their wisdom and forecast , to observe their profound love of liberty ...
... judgement of posterity . § 41. If , upon a close survey of their labors , as de- veloped in the actual structure of the Constitution , we shall have reason to admire their wisdom and forecast , to observe their profound love of liberty ...
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... judgements of re . 65. The first section , of the first article , begins with tructure of the Legislature . It is in these words : - All legislative powers , herein granted , shall be vested Congress of the United States ; which shall ...
... judgements of re . 65. The first section , of the first article , begins with tructure of the Legislature . It is in these words : - All legislative powers , herein granted , shall be vested Congress of the United States ; which shall ...
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... judgement upon all public affairs , and check that impetuosity and rashness , to which sudden impulses might otherwise lead the people , when they are artfully misguided by selfish demagogues , and plausible schemes of change . § 69 ...
... judgement upon all public affairs , and check that impetuosity and rashness , to which sudden impulses might otherwise lead the people , when they are artfully misguided by selfish demagogues , and plausible schemes of change . § 69 ...
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... judgement ; but he must have a competent degree of knowledge of all the subjects , on which he is called to legislate ; and he must have skill , as to the best mode of applying it . The latter can scarcely be acquired , but by long ...
... judgement ; but he must have a competent degree of knowledge of all the subjects , on which he is called to legislate ; and he must have skill , as to the best mode of applying it . The latter can scarcely be acquired , but by long ...
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... judgement can be formed by the constituents . measures have singly an immediate and sensible operation ; others again depend on a succession of well - connected schemes , and have a gradual , and perhaps unobserved operation . If ...
... judgement can be formed by the constituents . measures have singly an immediate and sensible operation ; others again depend on a succession of well - connected schemes , and have a gradual , and perhaps unobserved operation . If ...
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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.