Is Davis a Traitor: Or, Was Secession a Constitutional Right Previous to the War of 1861?author, 1866 - 263 Seiten |
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... mere passive look- ers - on , while the North is flooding the world with volumes against the justice of our cause ? Shall we stand , like the dumb brutes around us , having no word to utter in the great cause of truth , justice and ...
... mere passive look- ers - on , while the North is flooding the world with volumes against the justice of our cause ? Shall we stand , like the dumb brutes around us , having no word to utter in the great cause of truth , justice and ...
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... mere treaty or convention between them , and has an obligatory force no longer than suits its pleasure or its consent continues , " * & c . Thus the great controversy is narrowed down to the sin- gle question - Is the Constitution a ...
... mere treaty or convention between them , and has an obligatory force no longer than suits its pleasure or its consent continues , " * & c . Thus the great controversy is narrowed down to the sin- gle question - Is the Constitution a ...
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... merely " districts of peo- ple . " For since those Articles have passed away , and the struggle for power under them has ceased , all can clearly * The Madison Papers , p . 987 . Marshall's Life of Washington , vol . v , chap . 1 . The ...
... merely " districts of peo- ple . " For since those Articles have passed away , and the struggle for power under them has ceased , all can clearly * The Madison Papers , p . 987 . Marshall's Life of Washington , vol . v , chap . 1 . The ...
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... merely to deceive ? Is this to build on facts , or merely on exploded names ? Is this to follow the Convention in its deliberation , or is it to falsify its decision ? The Convention , by a vote of six States , decided that " a national ...
... merely to deceive ? Is this to build on facts , or merely on exploded names ? Is this to follow the Convention in its deliberation , or is it to falsify its decision ? The Convention , by a vote of six States , decided that " a national ...
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... of words . Akin to this sort of reasoning , or rhet- said by Mr. Webster and Mr. Justice Story about lowering the Constitution by considering it as oric , is all that is a " mere compact , " or as " nothing 28 IS DAVIS A TRAITOR ?
... of words . Akin to this sort of reasoning , or rhet- said by Mr. Webster and Mr. Justice Story about lowering the Constitution by considering it as oric , is all that is a " mere compact , " or as " nothing 28 IS DAVIS A TRAITOR ?
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Seite 56 - In determining questions in the United States in Congress assembled, each State shall have one vote. Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress ; and the members of Congress shall be protected in...
Seite 135 - The people of this Common-wealth have the sole and exclusive right of governing themselves as a free, sovereign and independent State ; and do, and forever hereafter shall, exercise and enjoy every power, jurisdiction and right, •which is not, or may not hereafter, be by them expressly delegated to the United States of America, in Congress assembled.
Seite 229 - Complaints are everywhere heard from our most considerate and virtuous citizens, equally the friends of public and private faith, and of public and personal liberty, that our governments are too unstable ; that the public good is disregarded in the conflicts of rival parties ; and that measures are too often decided, not according to the rules of justice, and the rights of the minor party, but by the superior force of an interested and overbearing majority.
Seite 254 - To secure the public good and private rights against the danger of such a faction, and at the same time to preserve the spirit and the form of popular government, is then the great object to which our inquiries are directed.
Seite 165 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Seite 201 - Union are virtually dissolved; that the States which compose it are free from their moral obligations, and that as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, to prepare definitely for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.
Seite 208 - 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.
Seite 178 - However gross a heresy it may be to maintain that a party to a compact has a right to revoke that compact, the doctrine itself has had respectable advocates. The possibility of a question of this nature, proves the necessity of laying the foundations of our national government deeper than in the mere sanction of delegated authority. The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of THE CONSENT...
Seite 63 - I always thought that, when we should acquire Canada and Louisiana it would be proper to govern them as provinces, and allow them no voice in our councils. In wording the third section of the fourth article, I went as far as circumstances would permit to establish the exclusion. Candor obliges me to add my belief, that, had it been more pointedly expressed, a strong opposition would have been made.
Seite 18 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.