History of the Federal Government for Fifty Years : from March, 1789 to March, 1839S.G. Simpson, 1840 - 480 páginas |
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... Negotiation with Great Britain . Her Restrictions on American Commerce . THE Second Congress met at Philadelphia , on the 24th of October , 1791. The time designated by the Constitution for the assembling of every new Congress , was ...
... Negotiation with Great Britain . Her Restrictions on American Commerce . THE Second Congress met at Philadelphia , on the 24th of October , 1791. The time designated by the Constitution for the assembling of every new Congress , was ...
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... negotiation . The British orders in council were highly injurious to the commerce of the United States , and the impressment of American seamen was still more irritating . It was no just excuse , that. * Judge Marshall . * The members of ...
... negotiation . The British orders in council were highly injurious to the commerce of the United States , and the impressment of American seamen was still more irritating . It was no just excuse , that. * Judge Marshall . * The members of ...
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... negotiation . It was contended , that the refusal to trade with England , would greatly distress her commercial and manufacturing interests ; and would soon induce her rulers to seek the friendship and secure the trade of the United ...
... negotiation . It was contended , that the refusal to trade with England , would greatly distress her commercial and manufacturing interests ; and would soon induce her rulers to seek the friendship and secure the trade of the United ...
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... negotiation . The sentiments of the speech were approved by both branches of the national legislature ; several members who were generally found in the opposition , voting in favor of resolutions for supporting the honor of the country ...
... negotiation . The sentiments of the speech were approved by both branches of the national legislature ; several members who were generally found in the opposition , voting in favor of resolutions for supporting the honor of the country ...
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... negotiations . He deemed it proper to comply with the request ; in the hope , no doubt , of finding a more friendly disposition in the Di- rectory , and of receiving some suitable propositions for a treaty between the two governments ...
... negotiations . He deemed it proper to comply with the request ; in the hope , no doubt , of finding a more friendly disposition in the Di- rectory , and of receiving some suitable propositions for a treaty between the two governments ...
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Página 459 - ... 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.
Página 87 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Página 446 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Página 462 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Página 16 - I dare hope is, that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated.
Página 17 - He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness...
Página 15 - On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Página 457 - We, who are your agents and servants for one purpose, will undertake to decide, that your other agents and servants, appointed by you for another purpose, have transcended the authority you gave them! " The reply would be, I think, not impertinent — " Who made you a judge over another's servants? To their own masters they stand or fall.
Página 458 - But while the people choose to maintain it as it is, while they are satisfied with it and refuse to change it, who has given or who can give to the State legislatures a right to alter it, either by interference, construction, or otherwise ? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves.
Página 311 - States were bound, in good faith, to extinguish the Indian title to lands within the limits of Georgia, so soon as it could be done peaceably and on reasonable terms.