Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and TimesA.W. Elder, 1855 - 404 Seiten |
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... argument , signed " A Kentuckian . " Those friends , though it was written on the spur of the occasion , thought fit to publish it in a pamphlet , entitled , " The Constitutionalist , by a Kentuckian , " and circulated it extensively ...
... argument , signed " A Kentuckian . " Those friends , though it was written on the spur of the occasion , thought fit to publish it in a pamphlet , entitled , " The Constitutionalist , by a Kentuckian , " and circulated it extensively ...
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... argument , they An election of another governor was the spu- have resorted to noisy declamation - instead rious offspring . Although there had been no of ever mentioning our own constitution , they doubt on the constitution , and ...
... argument , they An election of another governor was the spu- have resorted to noisy declamation - instead rious offspring . Although there had been no of ever mentioning our own constitution , they doubt on the constitution , and ...
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... argument , is this obligation , other than constructive ? and forgetting that you had ever thought on But when words are , in themselves , uncer- the subject ; and if the result be not a thor- tain , how do we understand them ? Why cer ...
... argument , is this obligation , other than constructive ? and forgetting that you had ever thought on But when words are , in themselves , uncer- the subject ; and if the result be not a thor- tain , how do we understand them ? Why cer ...
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... arguments on , and which no good man ever denied - which is that we , the people , are the only legitimate source of all political pow- er ; and that our government was instituted by us and for our peace and happiness - but with this ...
... arguments on , and which no good man ever denied - which is that we , the people , are the only legitimate source of all political pow- er ; and that our government was instituted by us and for our peace and happiness - but with this ...
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... argument which would be conclusive men of stupendous intellects , and were illustri- in this kind of case , I shall not consume time ous ornaments of their state , did not under- by endeavoring to prove that in the case understand ...
... argument which would be conclusive men of stupendous intellects , and were illustri- in this kind of case , I shall not consume time ous ornaments of their state , did not under- by endeavoring to prove that in the case understand ...
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Seite 239 - Reason's whole pleasure, all the joys of sense, Lie in three words, health, peace, and competence.
Seite 126 - It therefore belongs to them to ascertain its meaning, as well as the meaning of any particular act proceeding from the legislative body. If there should happen to be an irreconcilable variance between the two, that which has the superior obligation and validity ought, of course, to be preferred ; or in other words, the Constitution ought to be preferred to the statute; the intention of the people to the intention of their agents.
Seite 134 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Seite 191 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each state in the Convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude, than might have been otherwise expected...
Seite 83 - By a faction, I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Seite 59 - In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men, the great difficulty lies in this; you must first enable the government to control the governed ; and in the next place oblige it to control itself.
Seite 126 - There is no position which depends on clearer principles than that every act of a delegated authority contrary to the tenor of the commission under which it is exercised is void. No legislative act, therefore, contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.
Seite 132 - The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may justly be pronounced the very definition of tyranny.
Seite 197 - This is one of those truths which, to a correct and unprejudiced mind, carries its own evidence along with it; and may be obscured, but cannot be made plainer by argument or reasoning. It rests upon axioms as simple as they are universal — the means ought to be proportioned to the end; the persons from whose agency the attainment of any end is- expected, ought to possess the means by which it is to be attained.
Seite 131 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy, as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.