The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1750-1833. State sovereignty and slavery, 1889Callaghan, 1876 |
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... MADISON AND THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND . THE HARTFORD CONVENTION .. 200 CHAPTER VII . HISTORY OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION TO 1787. THE COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION ON SLAVERY ... CHAPTER VIII . HISTORY OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION FROM 1789 ...
... MADISON AND THE SECOND WAR WITH ENGLAND . THE HARTFORD CONVENTION .. 200 CHAPTER VII . HISTORY OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION TO 1787. THE COMPROMISES OF THE CONSTITUTION ON SLAVERY ... CHAPTER VIII . HISTORY OF THE SLAVERY QUESTION FROM 1789 ...
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... Madison Papers . Elliott , Deb . , V. , p . 212 . 2 The Declaration of Independence says : " When it becomes neces sary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another people , " etc. Calhoun's view ...
... Madison Papers . Elliott , Deb . , V. , p . 212 . 2 The Declaration of Independence says : " When it becomes neces sary for one people to dissolve the political bonds which have connected them with another people , " etc. Calhoun's view ...
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... Madison also declared , on the 29th of June , 1787 , in the con- vention at Philadelphia : " The states never possessed the essential EARLY INCONSISTENCIES . 23 The articles of confederation start out 22 STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND SLAVERY .
... Madison also declared , on the 29th of June , 1787 , in the con- vention at Philadelphia : " The states never possessed the essential EARLY INCONSISTENCIES . 23 The articles of confederation start out 22 STATE SOVEREIGNTY AND SLAVERY .
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... Madison Papers ; Elliott , Deb . , V. , p . 212. Ruffin called attention in the debates of the peace convention at Washington , February , 1861 , to the fact that during the revolutionary war North Carolina had laid the foundation of ...
... Madison Papers ; Elliott , Deb . , V. , p . 212. Ruffin called attention in the debates of the peace convention at Washington , February , 1861 , to the fact that during the revolutionary war North Carolina had laid the foundation of ...
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... energies of the other states . " Austin's Life of Gerry . See Rives , The Life and Times of J. Madison , II . , p . 177 . ร Story , Comm . , I. , § 244 . The colonists . rendered it necessary , and the more indispensable it be-
... energies of the other states . " Austin's Life of Gerry . See Rives , The Life and Times of J. Madison , II . , p . 177 . ร Story , Comm . , I. , § 244 . The colonists . rendered it necessary , and the more indispensable it be-
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Seite 146 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities, rights and liberties appertaining to them.
Seite 203 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the constitution.
Seite 420 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cisatlantic affairs, America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Seite 288 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted : Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 159 - Every State shall abide by the determination of the United States, in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual...
Seite 151 - ... the General Assembly doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid are unconstitutional ; — and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each for co-operating with this state, in maintaining unimpaired the authorities, rights, and liberties, reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Seite 34 - England, Sir, is a nation, which still I hope respects, and formerly adored, her freedom. The colonists emigrated from you when this part of your character was most predominant ; and they took this bias and direction the moment they parted from your hands. They are therefore not only devoted to liberty, but to liberty according to English ideas, and on English principles.
Seite 361 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Seite 146 - ... that the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the constitution, the measure of its...
Seite 9 - The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders, are no more. I am not a Virginian, but an American.