A Brief Enquiry Into the True Nature and Character of Our Federal Government: Being a Review of Judge Story's Commentaries on the Constitution of the United StatesJ. Campbell, 1863 - 150 Seiten |
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... granted that it would dissolve itself as soon as that duty should be performed . * portions of the people of New York were admitted to seats in congress as dele- gates from the colony , yet , in point of fact , they were not elected as ...
... granted that it would dissolve itself as soon as that duty should be performed . * portions of the people of New York were admitted to seats in congress as dele- gates from the colony , yet , in point of fact , they were not elected as ...
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... granted to the delegates to the second congress were sub- stantially the same with those granted to the delegates to the first , will appear from the following extracts from their credentials . New Hampshire . " To consent and agree to ...
... granted to the delegates to the second congress were sub- stantially the same with those granted to the delegates to the first , will appear from the following extracts from their credentials . New Hampshire . " To consent and agree to ...
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... granted to the congresses of 1774 and 1775 ; and it is only from their acts that we can determine what powers they actually exercised . The circumstances under which they were called into existence precluded the possibility of any ...
... granted to the congresses of 1774 and 1775 ; and it is only from their acts that we can determine what powers they actually exercised . The circumstances under which they were called into existence precluded the possibility of any ...
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... granting commissions to privateers , was approved and ratified by the several colonies or states , because they received and filled up the commissions and bonds , and returned the latter to con- gress . " This approval and ratification ...
... granting commissions to privateers , was approved and ratified by the several colonies or states , because they received and filled up the commissions and bonds , and returned the latter to con- gress . " This approval and ratification ...
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... granted by that instrument , which are not included within its express terms , literally taken , but which are , nevertheless , within their obvious mean- ing . The strict construction for which I contend , applies to the intention of ...
... granted by that instrument , which are not included within its express terms , literally taken , but which are , nevertheless , within their obvious mean- ing . The strict construction for which I contend , applies to the intention of ...
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Seite 45 - His Britannic Majesty acknowledges the said United States, viz. New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island, and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States...
Seite 56 - And the articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the union shall be perpetual ; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Seite 54 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Seite 41 - That it be recommended to the respective assemblies and conventions of the united colonies, where no government sufficient to the exigencies of their affairs has been hitherto established to adopt such government as shall, in the opinion of the representatives of the people, best conduce to the happiness and safety of their constituents in particular, and America in general.
Seite 12 - That his majesty's subjects in these colonies owe the same allegiance to the crown of Great Britain, that is owing from his subjects born within the realm, and all due subordination to that august body the parliament of Great Britain.
Seite 51 - We, the people of the States of New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia, do ordain, declare and establish the following constitution, for the government of ourselves and our posterity.
Seite 99 - That every power vested in a government is in its nature sovereign, and includes, by force of the term, a right to employ all the means requisite and fairly applicable to the attainment of the ends of such power, and which are not precluded by restrictions and exceptions specified in the Constitution, or not immoral, or not contrary to the essential ends of political society.
Seite 26 - Friends, Countrymen, and Brethren — « By these, and by every other appellation that may designate the ties which bind us to each other, we entreat your serious attention to this our second attempt to prevent their dissolution.
Seite 20 - Continent, to consult together on the present Circumstances of the Colonies, and the Difficulties to which they are and must be reduced, by the Operation of the Acts of Parliament...
Seite 22 - America labors, by reason of the several acts of parliament that impose taxes or duties for raising a revenue, and lay unnecessary restraints and burdens on trade ; and of the statutes, parliamentary acts, and royal instructions, which make an invidious distinction between his majesty's subjects in Great Britain and America, with full power and authority to concert, agree to, and effectually prosecute such legal measures, as in the opinion of the said deputies, and of the deputies so to be assembled,...