Freedom National; Slavery SectionalTicknor, Reed and Fields, 1852 - 78 Seiten |
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... Legislature tie the hands of a succeeding Legis- lature , so as to prevent the full exercise of its constitutional powers . Each Legislature , under a just sense of its responsi- bility , must judge for itself ; and , if it think proper ...
... Legislature tie the hands of a succeeding Legis- lature , so as to prevent the full exercise of its constitutional powers . Each Legislature , under a just sense of its responsi- bility , must judge for itself ; and , if it think proper ...
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... Legislature , " he wrote , " I would present a bill for this purpose with great care , and I would never cease moving it till it became a law , or I ceased to be a member . Till America comes into this measure , prayers to heaven will ...
... Legislature , " he wrote , " I would present a bill for this purpose with great care , and I would never cease moving it till it became a law , or I ceased to be a member . Till America comes into this measure , prayers to heaven will ...
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... Legislature of Maryland , on a bill for the relief of oppressed slaves , a young man , afterwards by his consummate learning and forensic powers , the acknow- ledged head of the American bar , William Pinkney , in a speech of earnest ...
... Legislature of Maryland , on a bill for the relief of oppressed slaves , a young man , afterwards by his consummate learning and forensic powers , the acknow- ledged head of the American bar , William Pinkney , in a speech of earnest ...
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... of the Convention , in his contemporary address to the Legislature of Maryland , has described the compromise . " I found , " he says , " that the Eastern members , notwithstanding their aversion to slavery , were very willing to 35.
... of the Convention , in his contemporary address to the Legislature of Maryland , has described the compromise . " I found , " he says , " that the Eastern members , notwithstanding their aversion to slavery , were very willing to 35.
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... Legislature to provide for the effect of judgments . " The clause of compact with the power attached was then adopted , and is now a part of the Constitution . In presence of this solicitude for the preservation of " State powers ...
... Legislature to provide for the effect of judgments . " The clause of compact with the power attached was then adopted , and is now a part of the Constitution . In presence of this solicitude for the preservation of " State powers ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
Abolitionist according adopted ALPHEUS FELCH amendment Articles of Confederation authority Boston British character Charles Cotesworth Pinckney Charles Pinckney claim common law compromise Congress Consti Constitution Continental Congress convictions debate declared denial of Trial discussion duty England execution express expressly Fathers Fugitive Slave Bill fugitives from labor grant of power Granville Sharpe Habeas Corpus important infraction of rights institution John Rutledge judgment language legislation Legislature lord Massachusetts master memorial National Convention National Government national jurisdiction Nativo Habendo nature openly Parliament Personal Liberty Pinckney political President principles proceedings proposition provision public records question regard repeal Resolution Samuel Adams sanction secondly sectional secured seize Senate service or labor sheriff Slave Act slaveholding soul South Carolina speak spirit Stamp Act stitution suit at common SUMNER Supreme Court surrender of fugitives thereof tion tional Trial by Jury true tution unconstitutional United villain Virginia Washington words writ
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Seite 43 - The Congress, the Executive, and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Seite 12 - Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.
Seite 47 - No person held to service or labor in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labor, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due.
Seite 3 - Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them : for this is the Law and the Prophets.
Seite 50 - Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Seite 17 - Mr. MADISON thought it wrong to admit in the Constitution the idea that there could be property in men.
Seite 44 - It is as much the duty of the house of representatives, of the senate, and of the President, to decide upon the constitutionality of any bill or resolution which may be presented to them for passage or approval, as it is of the supreme judges, when it may be brought before them for judicial decision.
Seite 55 - That the respective colonies are entitled to the common law of England, and more especially to the great and inestimable privilege of being tried by their peers of the vicinage, according to the course of that law.
Seite 64 - I rejoice that America has resisted. Three millions of people, so dead to all the feelings of liberty as voluntarily to submit to be slaves, would have been fit instruments to make slaves of the rest.
Seite 21 - Shakespeare, thy gift, I place before my sight; With awe, I ask his blessing ere I write ; With reverence look on his majestic face; Proud to be less, but of his godlike race.