A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General ReadersHarper & Brothers, 1865 - 372 sider |
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... liberty to extirpate , they were entitled to deem mere temporary occupants of the soil . They might convert them to Christianity ; and , if they refus- ed conversion , they might drive them from the soil , as unworthy to inhabit it ...
... liberty to extirpate , they were entitled to deem mere temporary occupants of the soil . They might convert them to Christianity ; and , if they refus- ed conversion , they might drive them from the soil , as unworthy to inhabit it ...
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... liberty , and property ; and they have never ceded to any sovereign power , whatever , a right to dispose of either without their consent . ( 2. ) That our ancestors , who first settled the Colonies , were , at the time of their ...
... liberty , and property ; and they have never ceded to any sovereign power , whatever , a right to dispose of either without their consent . ( 2. ) That our ancestors , who first settled the Colonies , were , at the time of their ...
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... liberty , even than that , by which we were separated from the parent country . It was not achieved , however , without great difficulties and sacrifices of opinion . It required all the wisdom , the patriotism , and the genius of our ...
... liberty , even than that , by which we were separated from the parent country . It was not achieved , however , without great difficulties and sacrifices of opinion . It required all the wisdom , the patriotism , and the genius of our ...
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... liberty , and to trace their deep sense of the value of political responsibility , and their anxiety , above all things , to give perpetuity , as well as energy , to the republican institutions of their country ; then , indeed , will ...
... liberty , and to trace their deep sense of the value of political responsibility , and their anxiety , above all things , to give perpetuity , as well as energy , to the republican institutions of their country ; then , indeed , will ...
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... liberty to ourselves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America . " $ 45 This Preamble is very important , not only as explanatory of the motives and objects of framing the ...
... liberty to ourselves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America . " $ 45 This Preamble is very important , not only as explanatory of the motives and objects of framing the ...
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Side 337 - 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.
Side 300 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Side 315 - ... the spirit of party. But in those of the popular character, in governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged. From their natural tendency it is certain there will always be enough of that spirit for every salutary purpose. And there being constant danger of excess, the effort ought to be, by force of public opinion, to mitigate and assuage it. A fire not to be quenched, it demands a uniform vigilance to prevent its bursting into a flame, lest, instead of warming, it should...
Side 288 - Canada acceding to this confederation, and joining in the measures of the united states, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
Side 281 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or State, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and Spain.
Side 282 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which...
Side 281 - Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress...
Side 282 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.
Side 164 - But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Side 292 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.