History of the Federal Government, for Fifty Years: From March, 1789 to March, 1839S.G. Simpkins, 1840 - 480 páginas |
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... majority , should be fairly given . The candid will then judge correctly , from the circumstances and the results . The writer of this volume would dare hope , that he has aimed to avoid these errors . And yet he could not speak in the ...
... majority , should be fairly given . The candid will then judge correctly , from the circumstances and the results . The writer of this volume would dare hope , that he has aimed to avoid these errors . And yet he could not speak in the ...
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... majority of the members early discovered a preference for a complete general gov- ernment . And the great question was , whether it should be strictly national , or federal . The former system , it was supposed , would nearly annihilate ...
... majority of the members early discovered a preference for a complete general gov- ernment . And the great question was , whether it should be strictly national , or federal . The former system , it was supposed , would nearly annihilate ...
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... majority of the people had full confidence that their rights and liberties were secure , and that the wisest measures would be adopt- ed for the welfare and prosperity of the country . The members of the Senate and House of ...
... majority of the people had full confidence that their rights and liberties were secure , and that the wisest measures would be adopt- ed for the welfare and prosperity of the country . The members of the Senate and House of ...
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... majority in the respective States , and they have wisely declined , of late , to interfere in so delicate and difficult a subject . In several States , however , there are laws against blasphemy , and rendering those liable to ...
... majority in the respective States , and they have wisely declined , of late , to interfere in so delicate and difficult a subject . In several States , however , there are laws against blasphemy , and rendering those liable to ...
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... majority of the people were not satisfied with this reasoning ; and additional articles were therefore proposed by Conventions in most of the States , when they adopted the Constitution . The subject was justly deemed of great ...
... majority of the people were not satisfied with this reasoning ; and additional articles were therefore proposed by Conventions in most of the States , when they adopted the Constitution . The subject was justly deemed of great ...
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Pasajes populares
Página 452 - 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 450 - ... limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, 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...
Página 16 - In tendering this ho.mage to the great Author of every public and private good, I assure myself that it expresses your sentiments not less than my own, nor those of my fellow-citizens at large, less than either.
Página 465 - ... that 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 468 - 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 87 - And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
Página 92 - Such is the amiable and interesting system of government (and such are some of the abuses to which it may be exposed) which the people of America have exhibited to the admiration and anxiety of the wise and virtuous of all nations for eight years under the administration of a citizen who, by a long course of great actions, regulated by prudence, justice, temperance, and fortitude, conducting a people inspired with the same virtues and animated with the same ardent patriotism and love of liberty to...
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 92 - This example has been recommended to the imitation of his successors, by both Houses of Congress, and by the voice of the Legislatures and the people, throughout the nation. On this subject it might become me better to be silent, or to speak with diffidence; but as something may be expected, the occasion...