Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress, Volume 1;Volume 6;Volume 50Gales & Seaton, 1830 |
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... become acquainted in a like case , would govern his private conduct , would with the manner in which it was written , and with the now govern his public conduct , as an agent for the pub - matter which it contained , before any ...
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... become their duty to urge it to a settlement , and passed , he thought he had stated enough to show gen- and to express their desire that an early report and deci- tlemen that the second section of it deserved correction . sion may be ...
... become their duty to urge it to a settlement , and passed , he thought he had stated enough to show gen- and to express their desire that an early report and deci- tlemen that the second section of it deserved correction . sion may be ...
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... become members also . For one , I very much desire to see the day , when of the Federal Union , & c . Thus , we see , the object then the new States shall neither be an object of envy or cu- was to acquire lands , not to be held up in ...
... become members also . For one , I very much desire to see the day , when of the Federal Union , & c . Thus , we see , the object then the new States shall neither be an object of envy or cu- was to acquire lands , not to be held up in ...
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... become necessary to discuss that it could never injuriously affect the migration to the West . question , he would maintain the same opinion ; but while So long as the attractions of land , liberty , and free space , he did so , he did ...
... become necessary to discuss that it could never injuriously affect the migration to the West . question , he would maintain the same opinion ; but while So long as the attractions of land , liberty , and free space , he did so , he did ...
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... become a great People treat- a Canadian Frenchman . He has a house , and generally ing with a feeble race . Let them be approached with ho- resides , at Montreal . During the war he occasionally re- norable proposals ; let the terms and ...
... become a great People treat- a Canadian Frenchman . He has a house , and generally ing with a feeble race . Let them be approached with ho- resides , at Montreal . During the war he occasionally re- norable proposals ; let the terms and ...
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Página 73 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact, as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact ; and that 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,...
Página 148 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 57 - 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 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 181 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...
Página 80 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Página 164 - The inhabitants of our Western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head. They...
Página 148 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties, by geographical discriminations — Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Página 72 - State or neighborhood; when I refuse for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South — and if, moved by local prejudice, or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!
Página 74 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's Government; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably, sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not affected by this supreme law. But the State Legislatures, as political bodies, however sovereign, are yet not sovereign over the...
Página 57 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the...