Scrap Book on Law and Politics, Men and TimesA.W. Elder, 1855 - 404 Seiten |
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... contract , the literal meaning of which is doubtful , is it not construed by the rules we have mentioned ? And is he not as much bound by this interpre- tation , as if there had been no necessity to re- what inference the proper and ...
... contract , the literal meaning of which is doubtful , is it not construed by the rules we have mentioned ? And is he not as much bound by this interpre- tation , as if there had been no necessity to re- what inference the proper and ...
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... contract the other , nor nerve the been granted since the debt became due . one and steel the other against the common in- Members had been elected to the legislature , terests . He would repeat , that he did not be- with instructions ...
... contract the other , nor nerve the been granted since the debt became due . one and steel the other against the common in- Members had been elected to the legislature , terests . He would repeat , that he did not be- with instructions ...
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... contract debts which they could not pay ; it had depreciated the Western paper currency , and had tended to augment and vitiate that currency . Could any one fail to see its operation in producing these effects ? He would ask his ...
... contract debts which they could not pay ; it had depreciated the Western paper currency , and had tended to augment and vitiate that currency . Could any one fail to see its operation in producing these effects ? He would ask his ...
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... contracts , " and also with that of the constitution of Kentucky which forbids any legislative act " impairing contracts . " A majority of the people of Kentucky , desiring legislative relief , either because they were in debt or ...
... contracts , " and also with that of the constitution of Kentucky which forbids any legislative act " impairing contracts . " A majority of the people of Kentucky , desiring legislative relief , either because they were in debt or ...
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... contracts , " and what is " impairing " that obligation . Al- though there seemed to be a great diversity of opinion in relation to what is the obligation of a contract , yet he thought it strange that no one of those who denied the ...
... contracts , " and what is " impairing " that obligation . Al- though there seemed to be a great diversity of opinion in relation to what is the obligation of a contract , yet he thought it strange that no one of those who denied the ...
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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.