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... Constitution of the United States . - By the Constitution , the President has power “ to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in case of impeachment . " 54 PARDONING POWER OF THE PRESIDENT .
... Constitution of the United States . - By the Constitution , the President has power “ to grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in case of impeachment . " 54 PARDONING POWER OF THE PRESIDENT .
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... Constitution , will be powerless to remedy this evil . But such a state of things would be monstrous ; and any interpretation of the Constitution is monstrous which thus ties his hands . Mercy and justice would be rendered not merely by ...
... Constitution , will be powerless to remedy this evil . But such a state of things would be monstrous ; and any interpretation of the Constitution is monstrous which thus ties his hands . Mercy and justice would be rendered not merely by ...
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... Constitution . Nay , more ; it gives to the law a character which the very Constitution does not possess . The wise fathers did not treat the coun- try as a Chinese foot , never to grow after infancy ; but , anticipating Progress , they ...
... Constitution . Nay , more ; it gives to the law a character which the very Constitution does not possess . The wise fathers did not treat the coun- try as a Chinese foot , never to grow after infancy ; but , anticipating Progress , they ...
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... Constitution ex- pressly provides against abridging freedom of speech , it is a special outrage . In vain do we condemn the despotisms of Europe , while we borrow the rigors with which they repress Liberty , and guard their own ...
... Constitution ex- pressly provides against abridging freedom of speech , it is a special outrage . In vain do we condemn the despotisms of Europe , while we borrow the rigors with which they repress Liberty , and guard their own ...
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... Constitution , and the sentiments of the Fathers , Slavery and not Free- dom is sectional , while Freedom and not Slavery is national . On this unanswerable proposition I take my stand , and here commences my argument . The subject ...
... Constitution , and the sentiments of the Fathers , Slavery and not Free- dom is sectional , while Freedom and not Slavery is national . On this unanswerable proposition I take my stand , and here commences my argument . The subject ...
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Seite 153 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 514 - First in war, first in peace, first in the hearts of his countrymen," was originally used in the resolutions presented to Congress on the death of Washington, December, 1799.
Seite 609 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void : it being the true intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any territory or state, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the constitution of the United States...
Seite 344 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Seite 28 - January, 1819, shall remain exempt from any tax laid by order, or under any authority of the State, whether for State, county, or township, or any other purpose whatever, for the term of five years from and after the day of sale...
Seite 344 - It is as much the duty of the House of Representatives, of the Senate, and of the President to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Seite 296 - Sheer o'er the crystal battlements : from morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A summer's day ; and with the setting sun Dropt from the zenith like a falling star...
Seite 251 - Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees, and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Seite 130 - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Seite 266 - That in all that Territory ceded by France to the United States, under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of Thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the...