The Lost Principle: Or, The Sectional Equilibrium: how it was Created--how Destroyed--how it May be RestoredJ. Woodhouse, 1860 - 266 páginas |
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... question of slavery , then vexing Congress , and in terms stronger than good manners would warrant , I expressed my aversion to that form of labor . The sentiment which I uttered elicited no response , and the conversation glided on to ...
... question of slavery , then vexing Congress , and in terms stronger than good manners would warrant , I expressed my aversion to that form of labor . The sentiment which I uttered elicited no response , and the conversation glided on to ...
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... questions that have con- vulsed the North and South , and will supply us with the means of ascertaining how far we have departed from the true mean- ing of that instrument - how far the ship of State has drifted from the intended course ...
... questions that have con- vulsed the North and South , and will supply us with the means of ascertaining how far we have departed from the true mean- ing of that instrument - how far the ship of State has drifted from the intended course ...
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... question of representation should have been found to be attended with such difficulty and delay . Upon it depended the question of empire - what should be the relation which the two great sections , the North and South , were to occupy ...
... question of representation should have been found to be attended with such difficulty and delay . Upon it depended the question of empire - what should be the relation which the two great sections , the North and South , were to occupy ...
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... question . It rested on alternatives which were based on opposite princi- ples . If the first were adopted , and wealth or contribution made the measure of power , the government , in all its depart- ments , would pass under the ...
... question . It rested on alternatives which were based on opposite princi- ples . If the first were adopted , and wealth or contribution made the measure of power , the government , in all its depart- ments , would pass under the ...
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... question had been discussed in its political applications , and had come to be viewed solely as a question of sectional power , Mr. Randolph promptly abandoned his own offspring , and assumed his proper place in the Southern ranks ...
... question had been discussed in its political applications , and had come to be viewed solely as a question of sectional power , Mr. Randolph promptly abandoned his own offspring , and assumed his proper place in the Southern ranks ...
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according admitted adopted agriculture amendments America Articles of Confederation Assembly branch British Burwell Bassett Bushrod Washington census commerce committee Commonwealth Confederation Congress considered Constitution Cuthbert Bullitt debate declared delegates Democratic direct taxation duties Edmund England equal Equilibrium ernment existence exports favor Federal Convention Federalists foreign GOUVERNEUR MORRIS Grayson Honorable important interests Isaac Coles James Jefferson John labor legislature Levin Powell liberty Madison Maryland Massachusetts Matthew Walton ment Meriwether Smith nations nature navigation negroes North and South Northern majority number of inhabitants object opinion Opposition party Patrick Henry Pennsylvania Pinckney political popular population present principle produced proposed proposition protection question Randolph ratification ratio representation representatives resolution revenue Samuel Jordan Cabell Senate slave trade slavery soon South Carolina Southern taxes Thomas three-fifths tion tobacco Union United Virginia vote Washington wealth whilst whole William William Grayson Wilson
Passagens conhecidas
Página 17 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Página 249 - 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 ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Página 250 - ... delegate ; and the delegates of a state or any of them, at his or their request, shall be furnished with a transcript of the said journal, except such...
Página 11 - In order to justify a resort to revolutionary resistance, the federal government must be guilty of "a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise" of powers not granted by the Constitution.
Página 245 - ... no right of any denomination can be cancelled abridged restrained or modified by the Congress by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any Capacity by the President or any Department or Officer of the United States...
Página 197 - An unrestrained intercourse between the States themselves will advance the trade of each, by an interchange of their respective productions, not only for the supply of reciprocal wants at home, but for exportation to foreign markets.
Página 12 - ... 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, and...
Página 247 - That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station...
Página 260 - February 21, 1787, and was ratified by the conventions of the several states, as follows, viz.: By convention of Delaware...
Página 213 - The migration or importation of such persons as the several states, now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the legislature prior to the year 1800; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such migration or importation, at a rate not exceeding the average of the duties laid on imports.