Speeches and Forensic Arguments, Volume 2Perkins & Marvin, 1835 |
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... creating a court which shall construe away its provisions . If members of Congress betray their trust , the people will find it out , before they are ruined . If the President should , at any time , violate his duty , his term of office ...
... creating a court which shall construe away its provisions . If members of Congress betray their trust , the people will find it out , before they are ruined . If the President should , at any time , violate his duty , his term of office ...
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... creating a court which shall construe away its provisions . If members of Congress betray their trust , the people will find it out , before they are ruined . If the President should , at any time , violate his duty , his term of office ...
... creating a court which shall construe away its provisions . If members of Congress betray their trust , the people will find it out , before they are ruined . If the President should , at any time , violate his duty , his term of office ...
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... creating new grounds of complaint in other quarters . The number forty - four thousand has been generally spoken of as the most ac- ceptable substitute for 47,708 ; but should this be adopted , great relative inequality would fall on ...
... creating new grounds of complaint in other quarters . The number forty - four thousand has been generally spoken of as the most ac- ceptable substitute for 47,708 ; but should this be adopted , great relative inequality would fall on ...
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... creating the present Bank of the United States . We have lived to little purpose , as public men , if the experience of this period has not enlightened our judgments , and enabled us to revise our opinions ; and to correct any errors ...
... creating the present Bank of the United States . We have lived to little purpose , as public men , if the experience of this period has not enlightened our judgments , and enabled us to revise our opinions ; and to correct any errors ...
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... created by the States ; for the States seem first to have taken possession of the power , and then to have delegated it . Whether the States can Constitutionally exercise this power , or delegate it to others , is a question which I do ...
... created by the States ; for the States seem first to have taken possession of the power , and then to have delegated it . Whether the States can Constitutionally exercise this power , or delegate it to others , is a question which I do ...
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Page 119 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Page 141 - It has a preamble, and that preamble expressly recites, that the duties which it imposes are laid " for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures." Until, Sir, this early legislation, thus coeval with the Constitution itself, thus full and explicit, can be explained away, no man can doubt of the meaning of that instrument, in this respect.
Page 115 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 124 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.
Page 293 - November, 1788, nor upon the indemnities mutually due or claimed, the parties will negotiate further on these subjects at a convenient time; and until they may have agreed upon these points the said treaties and convention shall have no operation, and the relations of the two countries shall be regulated as follows: ART.
Page 190 - Rome, in the height of her glory, is not to be compared ; a power which has dotted over the surface of the whole globe with her possessions and military posts ; whose morning drum-beat, following the sun, and keeping company with the hours, circles the earth daily with one continuous and unbroken strain of the martial airs of England.
Page 138 - To grant patents for useful inventions. "To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time. "To establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.
Page 21 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow citizens) the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake, since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 269 - The most able men — from the East and the West, from the North and the South...
Page 246 - I ask you, gentlemen of the jury, in patience to listen to a synopsis of the testimony offered on the part of the Government and on the part of the defense, and then decide as to the guilt or innocence of this prisoner.