Debates and Proceedings in the Convention of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Held in the Year 1788, and which Finally Ratified the Constitution of the United States. Printed by Authority of Resolves of the Legislature, 1856W. White, printer to the commonwealth, 1856 - 442 sider |
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Side 8
... danger as will not admit of delay . ARTICLE II . EXECUTIVE POWER . SECT . 1. The executive power shall be vested in a presi- dent of the United States of America . He shall hold his office during the term of four years ; and , together ...
... danger as will not admit of delay . ARTICLE II . EXECUTIVE POWER . SECT . 1. The executive power shall be vested in a presi- dent of the United States of America . He shall hold his office during the term of four years ; and , together ...
Side 25
... dangerous - that the executive is blended with , and will have an undue influence over the legislature - that the judicial department will be oppressive - that treaties of the highest importance may be formed by the president with the ...
... dangerous - that the executive is blended with , and will have an undue influence over the legislature - that the judicial department will be oppressive - that treaties of the highest importance may be formed by the president with the ...
Side 104
... dangerous to liberty , and , in fact , repugnant to the purposes of the delegation . The truth , as usual , is placed somewhere between the extremes , and I be- lieve is included in this proposition : The term of election must be so ...
... dangerous to liberty , and , in fact , repugnant to the purposes of the delegation . The truth , as usual , is placed somewhere between the extremes , and I be- lieve is included in this proposition : The term of election must be so ...
Side 106
... dangerous . Both may be good . Nor is there any foundation for the fears of those who say that if we , who have been accus- tomed to choose for one year only , now extend it to two , the next stride will be to five , or seven years ...
... dangerous . Both may be good . Nor is there any foundation for the fears of those who say that if we , who have been accus- tomed to choose for one year only , now extend it to two , the next stride will be to five , or seven years ...
Side 109
... danger in its being so . Who , he asked , are the men to be elected ? Are they not to be from among us ? If they ... dangerous impres- sions on the minds of the rising generation . It has been the general opinion that the liberties of ...
... danger in its being so . Who , he asked , are the men to be elected ? Are they not to be from among us ? If they ... dangerous impres- sions on the minds of the rising generation . It has been the general opinion that the liberties of ...
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Side 9 - In every case, after the choice of the president, the person having the greatest number of votes of the electors shall be the vicepresident. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.] The Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Side 17 - That it will meet the full and entire approbation of every state is not perhaps to be expected ; but each will doubtless consider, that had her interest been alone consulted, the consequences might have been particularly disagreeable or injurious to others ; that it is liable to as few exceptions as could reasonably have been expected, we hope and believe ; that it may promote the lasting welfare of that country so dear to us all, and secure her freedom and happiness, is our most ardent wish...
Side 353 - For when you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests, and their selfish views.
Side 25 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Side 352 - I am to doubt my own judgment, and to pay more respect to the judgment of others. Most men indeed as well as most sects in religion, think themselves in possession of all truth, and that wherever others differ from them it is so far error. Steele, a Protestant, in a dedication tells the pope, that the only difference between our two churches in their opinions of the certainty of their doctrine, is, the Romish church is infallible, and the Church of England is never in the wrong.
Side 16 - That it is the opinion of this Convention that, as soon as the conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same...
Side 415 - Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press ; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
Side 332 - Chorus — Yankee Doodle, keep it up, Yankee Doodle, dandy, Mind the music and the step, And with the girls be handy.
Side 353 - I think a general government necessary for us, and there is no form of government but what may be a blessing to the people, if well administered ; and I believe, further, that this is likely to be well administered for a course of years, and can only end in despotism, as other forms have done before it, when the people shall become so corrupted as to need despotic government, being incapable of any other.
Side 22 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.