Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest. The magnitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. ,It is at all times difficult to draw with precision... Eloquence of the United States - Side 4301827Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
| United States. Congress - 1830 - 498 sider
...Washington to the President of the old Congress, an extract from which he would read: "It is [says he] at all times difficult to draw, with precision, the...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests." Whilst the States, therefore, surrendered a portion of their rights and sovereignty, for the purposes... | |
| Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay - 1831 - 758 sider
...the sacrifice must depend as well " on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. " It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...; and on the present occasion this difficulty was increas" ed by a difference among the several states as to their situation, "extent, habits, and particular... | |
| Joseph Story - 1833 - 540 sider
...the sacrifice must depend, as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that, which appears to us the... | |
| Massachusetts. General Court. Senate - 1833 - 806 sider
...of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision,...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the... | |
| United States. Congress - 1833 - 686 sider
...rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and «afety of all." " It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...surrendered, and those which may be reserved;" and, lastly, "In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears... | |
| United States. Congress - 1833 - 684 sider
...all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all." " It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...surrendered, and those which may be reserved;" and, lastly, "In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily- in our view that which appears... | |
| James Hawkes - 1834 - 228 sider
...the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the ol'ject to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. 4. In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us... | |
| Edward Deering Mansfield - 1834 - 284 sider
...of the sacrifice must depend, at well on situation and circumstance as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...situation, extent, habits, and particular interests. In all our deliberations on this subject, ice kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the... | |
| 1834 - 434 sider
...be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with pre. cisión the line between those right?, which must be surrendered, and those which may be...difficulty was increased by a difference among the several slates, as to their .situation, extent, habits, and practical interests. — In all our deliberations... | |
| United States. Congress - 1834 - 640 sider
...of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circumstance, as on the object to be obtained. It is at all times difficult to draw with precision...which must be surrendered, and those which may be preserved ; and, on the present occasion, this difficulty was increased by a difference among the several... | |
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