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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... means an effectual calling . The plaintiff was called , but not called forth . The power in- vested in Congress , is to determine in what mode the requisition shall be made ; how the quota of each State is to be apportioned ; from what ...
... means an effectual calling . The plaintiff was called , but not called forth . The power in- vested in Congress , is to determine in what mode the requisition shall be made ; how the quota of each State is to be apportioned ; from what ...
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... means proves , that the call of the President places the detachment in the service of the United States . But although But although Congress has been less explicit on this subject than they might have been , and it could be wished they ...
... means proves , that the call of the President places the detachment in the service of the United States . But although But although Congress has been less explicit on this subject than they might have been , and it could be wished they ...
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... mean , I acknowledge , whene- ver there are delinquents to try ; but , surely , if it im- port no more than this , it was very unnecessarily used , since it would have been sufficient to say , that Courts Martial for the trial of ...
... mean , I acknowledge , whene- ver there are delinquents to try ; but , surely , if it im- port no more than this , it was very unnecessarily used , since it would have been sufficient to say , that Courts Martial for the trial of ...
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... means satisfied that he could have done so ; but if he could , this would only furnish a reason why Congress should vest the ju- risdiction in these cases , exclusively in a Court Mar- tial acting under the authority of the United ...
... means satisfied that he could have done so ; but if he could , this would only furnish a reason why Congress should vest the ju- risdiction in these cases , exclusively in a Court Mar- tial acting under the authority of the United ...
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... means of detecting and defeating it . We may declare defects in the constitution , without being justly chargeable with creating them ; but if they ex- ist , it is not for us to correct them . In the present instance , I believe the ...
... means of detecting and defeating it . We may declare defects in the constitution , without being justly chargeable with creating them ; but if they ex- ist , it is not for us to correct them . In the present instance , I believe the ...
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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.