Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States. February Term, 1816[-January Term, 1827], Band 5R. Donaldson, 1820 |
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... two governments , as the rights and privileges of the citizen , secured to him by the Constitution of the United States , the benefit of which he may lawfully claim . If , in a specified case , the people have 22 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT.
... two governments , as the rights and privileges of the citizen , secured to him by the Constitution of the United States , the benefit of which he may lawfully claim . If , in a specified case , the people have 22 CASES IN THE SUPREME COURT.
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... claim of exclusive jurisdiction to the particular cases was withdrawn by the United States , and the con- current jurisdiction of the State Courts was eo instanti restored , not by way of grant from the national go- vernment , but by ...
... claim of exclusive jurisdiction to the particular cases was withdrawn by the United States , and the con- current jurisdiction of the State Courts was eo instanti restored , not by way of grant from the national go- vernment , but by ...
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... claim under its own command , that portion of its militia which the United States have already called forth , and hold employed in actual service . There would be a repugnancy in the exercise of such an authority under such ...
... claim under its own command , that portion of its militia which the United States have already called forth , and hold employed in actual service . There would be a repugnancy in the exercise of such an authority under such ...
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... claim- ed ? When a military offence is created by an act of Congress to be punished by a Court Martial , how is such an act to be interpreted ? If a similar clause were in a State law , we should be at no loss to give an immediate and ...
... claim- ed ? When a military offence is created by an act of Congress to be punished by a Court Martial , how is such an act to be interpreted ? If a similar clause were in a State law , we should be at no loss to give an immediate and ...
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... claims a right to interfere with that ex- clusive jurisdiction , and to decide in its own Courts upon the merits of every case of alleged delinquency . Can a more direct collision with the authority of the United States be imagined ? It ...
... claims a right to interfere with that ex- clusive jurisdiction , and to decide in its own Courts upon the merits of every case of alleged delinquency . Can a more direct collision with the authority of the United States be imagined ? It ...
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Seite 93 - The rule that penal laws are to be construed strictly, is perhaps not much less old than construction itself. It is founded on the tenderness of the law for the rights of individuals; and on the plain principle that the power of punishment is vested in the legislative, not in the judicial department. It is the legislature, not the court, which is to define a crime, and ordain its punishment.
Seite 416 - Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution...
Seite 24 - And shall have exclusive cognizance of all crimes and offences cognizable under the authority of the United States...
Seite 74 - That, though penal laws are to be construed strictly, they are not to be construed so strictly as to defeat the obvious intention of the legislature.
Seite 94 - The case must be a strong one, indeed, which would justify a court in departing from the plain meaning of words, especially in a penal act, in search of an intention which the words themselves did not suggest.
Seite 113 - ... exclusive original cognizance of all civil causes of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction, including all seizures under laws of impost, navigation or trade of the United States, where the seizures are made, on waters which are navigable from the sea by vessels of ten or more tons burthen...
Seite 94 - To determine that a case is within the intention of a statute its language must authorize us to say so. It would be dangerous, indeed, to carry the principle that a case which is within the reason or mischief of a statute is within its provisions, so far as to punish a crime not enumerated in the statute because it is of equal atrocity, or of a kindred character with those which are enumerated.
Seite 224 - ... children and heirs" just referred to. By an act of the congress of Texas, passed January 28, 1840, it was provided as follows: "In making title to land by descent it shall be no bar to a party that any ancestor through whom he derives his descent from the intestate is or hath been an alien...
Seite 322 - Smith, cashier of the office of discount and deposit of the Bank of the United States at Washington, to be paid in liquidation of a balance due from the said Mechanics...
Seite 55 - That the militia, when called into the actual service of the United States, shall be subject to the same Rules and Articles of War as the regular troops of the United States.