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essential in some form or other to the free action of the Supreme Power , — all
these prove incontestably that a right exists somewhere and somehow to control ,
and if necessary to controvert , the position of absolute authority . Now , as far as
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essential in some form or other to the free action of the Supreme Power , — all
these prove incontestably that a right exists somewhere and somehow to control ,
and if necessary to controvert , the position of absolute authority . Now , as far as
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Surely , without some strong authority , the force of which has never been
disputed — the mere assertion in speeches and newspapers , that all this
deliberate action is rebellion , cannot be accepted as having a legal or moral
force with any ...
Surely , without some strong authority , the force of which has never been
disputed — the mere assertion in speeches and newspapers , that all this
deliberate action is rebellion , cannot be accepted as having a legal or moral
force with any ...
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All the acts done are solely on the authority of the President quâ President of the
United States , by the plenary power of himself alone , without any action of what
in every people , government , or nation under the sun is supposed to represent ...
All the acts done are solely on the authority of the President quâ President of the
United States , by the plenary power of himself alone , without any action of what
in every people , government , or nation under the sun is supposed to represent ...
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liberties of its people , by wicked and unprincipled men , professing to act under
the authority of the United States Government ; the solemn enactments of your
legislature have been nullified ; your volunteer soldiers have been taken
prisoners ...
liberties of its people , by wicked and unprincipled men , professing to act under
the authority of the United States Government ; the solemn enactments of your
legislature have been nullified ; your volunteer soldiers have been taken
prisoners ...
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I shall for the present content myself with quoting a very late authority for my
denial that the slavery question is sole element of this fearful disruption , and
asserting that it is very far in importance behind another , which has been
studiously kept ...
I shall for the present content myself with quoting a very late authority for my
denial that the slavery question is sole element of this fearful disruption , and
asserting that it is very far in importance behind another , which has been
studiously kept ...
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Página 13 - 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 20 - Rowton's Debater : A Series of complete Debates, Outlines of Debates, and Questions for Discussion; with ample References to the best Sources of Information.
Página 235 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Página 229 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
Página 15 - TREASURY OF KNOWLEDGE AND LIBRARY OF REFERENCE. Comprising an English Dictionary and Grammar, Universal Gazetteer, Classical Dictionary, Chronology, Law Dictionary, &c.
Página 232 - The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce the majority must, or the Government must cease.
Página 104 - And be it further enacted, that in all that territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Página 234 - ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions • affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Página 228 - It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and...
Página 15 - James Mackintosh's Miscellaneous Works : Including his Contributions to The Edinburgh Review. Complete in One Volume ; with Portrait and Vignette. Square crown 8vo.
Informação bibliográfica
| Título | The American Crisis Considered |
| Autor | Charles Lempriere |
| Editora | Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 |
| Original de | Universidade de Oxford |
| Digitalizado | 5 Dez 2006 |
| ISBN | 1432801848, 9781432801847 |
| Número de páginas | 296 páginas |
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