The works of John C. Calhoun [ed. by R.K. Crallé].Books on Demand, 1863 - 586 sider |
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... protect and preserve society , has itself a strong tendency to disorder and abuse of its powers , as all experi- ence and almost every page of history testify . The cause is to be found in the same constitution of our nature which makes ...
... protect and preserve society , has itself a strong tendency to disorder and abuse of its powers , as all experi- ence and almost every page of history testify . The cause is to be found in the same constitution of our nature which makes ...
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... protect and preserve society ? It cannot be done by insti- tuting a higher power to control the government , and those who administer it . This would be but to change the seat of authority , and to make this higher power , in reality ...
... protect and preserve society ? It cannot be done by insti- tuting a higher power to control the government , and those who administer it . This would be but to change the seat of authority , and to make this higher power , in reality ...
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... protect and preserve society . The powers necessary for this purpose will ever prove sufficient to aggrandize those who control it , at the expense of the rest of the community . In estimating what amount of power would be requisite to ...
... protect and preserve society . The powers necessary for this purpose will ever prove sufficient to aggrandize those who control it , at the expense of the rest of the community . In estimating what amount of power would be requisite to ...
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... protect- ing itself against the others ; or of advancing its respective interests , regardless of the interests of others . For this purpose , a struggle will take place between the various interests to obtain a majority , in order to ...
... protect- ing itself against the others ; or of advancing its respective interests , regardless of the interests of others . For this purpose , a struggle will take place between the various interests to obtain a majority , in order to ...
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... protection against external dangers , -must , in the present con- dition of the world , be clothed with powers suffi- cient to call forth the resources of the community , and be prepared , at all times , to command them promptly in ...
... protection against external dangers , -must , in the present con- dition of the world , be clothed with powers suffi- cient to call forth the resources of the community , and be prepared , at all times , to command them promptly in ...
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Side 315 - States, and the decision is against their validity, or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity...
Side 308 - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Side 198 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Side 196 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Side 105 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
Side 126 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Side 141 - The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government. Among a People consolidated into one Nation, this supremacy is completely vested in the National Legislature.
Side 308 - States, and the decision is in favor of their validity ; or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption, specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the constitution, treaty, statute, or commission...
Side 194 - ... to raise and support armies ... to provide and maintain a navy ... to make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces...
Side 248 - ... to all cases of admiralty and maritime jurisdiction;— to controversies, to which the United States shall be a party;— to controversies between two or more States;— between a State and the citizens of another State;— between citizens of different States;— between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States, and between a State or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens or subjects.