The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1861 - 366 Seiten |
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... becomes us to uphold it as rigidly when against us . Whichever be the American institutions we are to copy , let us never copy their practice so frequently illustrated in the following pages of adopting a principle at one time and ...
... becomes us to uphold it as rigidly when against us . Whichever be the American institutions we are to copy , let us never copy their practice so frequently illustrated in the following pages of adopting a principle at one time and ...
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... become extremely difficult to continue in an attitude of indifference . There is also the established policy of modern times , which , discarding the old doctrine of divine right , recognizes established governments as matter of fact ...
... become extremely difficult to continue in an attitude of indifference . There is also the established policy of modern times , which , discarding the old doctrine of divine right , recognizes established governments as matter of fact ...
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... becomes to hold them at arm's length— to follow the example of one of our judges , who recently replied to an impatient counsel : " It is for the very reason that my opinion inclines to your side , that I must weigh the more carefully ...
... becomes to hold them at arm's length— to follow the example of one of our judges , who recently replied to an impatient counsel : " It is for the very reason that my opinion inclines to your side , that I must weigh the more carefully ...
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... become homo- geneous , so that time has obliterated the first lines of distinction , and the whole has fused into a ... become mature and powerful , and when this point is reached , it becomes as natural for those which may now differ ...
... become homo- geneous , so that time has obliterated the first lines of distinction , and the whole has fused into a ... become mature and powerful , and when this point is reached , it becomes as natural for those which may now differ ...
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... become extinct . At the com- mencement of its history , no country produced a larger proportion of men , of the highest order of ability ; indeed , it would be difficult to find else- where the record of so large a number in an equal ...
... become extinct . At the com- mencement of its history , no country produced a larger proportion of men , of the highest order of ability ; indeed , it would be difficult to find else- where the record of so large a number in an equal ...
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Seite 356 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Seite 357 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Seite 38 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 351 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Seite 334 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Seite 335 - No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or any other for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Seite 354 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Seite 352 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Seite 328 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 340 - ... office — appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. THE United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...