The Life of John Randolph of Roanoke, Volum 1D. Appleton, 1851 - 707 sider |
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Side 27
... Federal Hall , the 4th of March , 1789 , when only thirteen members of the new Congress under our present Constitution appeared and took their seats . Two only presented themselves from the south side of the Potomac ; Alexander White ...
... Federal Hall , the 4th of March , 1789 , when only thirteen members of the new Congress under our present Constitution appeared and took their seats . Two only presented themselves from the south side of the Potomac ; Alexander White ...
Side 28
... Federal Hall , " said Randolph once in a speech to his constituents ; " I saw Washington , but could not hear him take the oath to support the Federal Constitution . The Constitution was in its chrysalis state . I saw what Washington ...
... Federal Hall , " said Randolph once in a speech to his constituents ; " I saw Washington , but could not hear him take the oath to support the Federal Constitution . The Constitution was in its chrysalis state . I saw what Washington ...
Side 29
... federal feature in it . It has been alleged within these walls , during the debates , to be national and federal , as it suited the argu- ments of gentlemen . But now when we have the definition of it , it is purely national . The ...
... federal feature in it . It has been alleged within these walls , during the debates , to be national and federal , as it suited the argu- ments of gentlemen . But now when we have the definition of it , it is purely national . The ...
Side 31
... Federal Convention , a declaration of rights asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty , and the inalienable rights of the people , together with amendments to the most exceptionable ...
... Federal Convention , a declaration of rights asserting and securing from encroachment the great principles of civil and religious liberty , and the inalienable rights of the people , together with amendments to the most exceptionable ...
Side 32
... federal ; that is , opposed to the Constitution , as it came from the hands of its framers , without important modifications . Patrick Henry was the master spirit of that assembly . He was offered a seat in the Senate of the United ...
... federal ; that is , opposed to the Constitution , as it came from the hands of its framers , without important modifications . Patrick Henry was the master spirit of that assembly . He was offered a seat in the Senate of the United ...
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Side 142 - They tell us, sir, that we are weak; unable to cope with so formidable an adversary. But when shall we be stronger? Will it be the next week, or the next year? Will it be when we are totally disarmed, and when a British guard shall be stationed in every house?
Side 37 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services ; which not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator, or judge, to be hereditary.
Side 287 - An Act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Side 198 - The constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The Executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act beyond the Constitution.
Side 121 - States at any time during the continuance of this act, to order all such aliens as he shall judge dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States, or shall have reasonable grounds to suspect are concerned in any treasonable or secret machinations against the government thereof, to depart out of the territory of the United States, within such time as shall be expressed in such order...
Side 56 - The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please: we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations, which may be soon turned into complaints.
Side 31 - We have no detail of those great considerations which, in my opinion, ought to have abounded before we should recur to a government of this kind. Here is a revolution as radical as that which separated us from Great Britain.
Side 55 - I cannot stand forward, and give praise or blame to any thing which relates to human actions, and human concerns, on a simple view of the object as it stands stripped of every relation, in all the nakedness and solitude of metaphysical abstraction.