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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... give power to a State Court , without naming the Court , or granting the power in express terms ? The exercise of this jurisdiction by a State Court Martial would either oust the Uni- ted States ' Courts of their jurisdiction , or might ...
... give power to a State Court , without naming the Court , or granting the power in express terms ? The exercise of this jurisdiction by a State Court Martial would either oust the Uni- ted States ' Courts of their jurisdiction , or might ...
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... give birth . " V. Moore . I can discover , I confess , nothing unreasonable in this doctrine ; nor can I perceive any inconvenience which can grow out of it , so long as the power of Congress to withdraw the whole , or any part of those ...
... give birth . " V. Moore . I can discover , I confess , nothing unreasonable in this doctrine ; nor can I perceive any inconvenience which can grow out of it , so long as the power of Congress to withdraw the whole , or any part of those ...
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... give a fair and rational scope to all the powers which it clearly contains . The constitution containing a grant of powers in many instances similar to those already existing in the State governments , and some of these being of vital ...
... give a fair and rational scope to all the powers which it clearly contains . The constitution containing a grant of powers in many instances similar to those already existing in the State governments , and some of these being of vital ...
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... give by the first and second sections of the act , viz . to " call forth " the militia to execute the laws , to suppress insurrec- tions , and repel invasions . In the act of Pennsylva- nia , it is the neglect or refusal " to serve when ...
... give by the first and second sections of the act , viz . to " call forth " the militia to execute the laws , to suppress insurrec- tions , and repel invasions . In the act of Pennsylva- nia , it is the neglect or refusal " to serve when ...
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... give an immediate and definite construction to it , viz . , that it pointed to a State Court Martial - And why ? Be- cause the offence being created by State legislation , to be executed for State purposes , must be supposed to ...
... give an immediate and definite construction to it , viz . , that it pointed to a State Court Martial - And why ? Be- cause the offence being created by State legislation , to be executed for State purposes , must be supposed to ...
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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.