The History of Political Parties in the State of New York: From the Ratif[i]cation of the Federal Constitution to December, 1840 ...

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H. & E. Phinney, 1846
 

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Página 12 - The resolution declared that the delegates were appointed, " for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation, and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and amendments therein, as shall, when agreed to in Congress, and confirmed by the several states under the Federal Constitution be adequate to the exigencies of the government, and preservation
Página 441 - cise all the power and authority appertaining to the office of governor until another be chosen, or until the governor absent or impeached shall return or be acquitted." Under this clause in the old constitution it was proposed to claim that the lieutenant governor would constitutionally
Página 213 - instance to be specified, he would be able to answer, consistently with his honor and the truth, " that the conversation, to which Doct. Cooper alluded, turned wholly on political topics and did not attribute to Col. Burr any instance of dishonorable conduct, nor relate to his private character; and in relation to any other Ian
Página 386 - States, in order to revise the constitution thereof, and more effectually to secure the support and attachment of all the people, by placing all upon the basis of fair representation. Resolved, That a circular letter from this legislature, signed by the president of the senate, and
Página 14 - death, he had very little faith in the position that the people of the United States were capable of sustaining a democratic or even a republican representative government. He thought, however, "it was in itself right and proper that the republican theory should
Página 14 - government, yet I never contemplated the abolition of the state governments; but, on the contrary, they were, in some particulars, constituent parts of my plan. "This plan was in my conception conformable with the strict theory of a
Página 15 - I never proposed either a president or senate for life ; and that I neither recommended nor meditated the annihilation of the state governments. "And I may add, that in the course of the discussions in the convention, neither the propositions thrown out for debate, nor even those voted in the earlier stages of deliberation, were considered as evidences of a definitive opinion in
Página 441 - be chosen, or until the governor absent or impeached shall return or be acquitted." Under this clause in the old constitution it was proposed to claim that the lieutenant governor would constitutionally
Página 440 - in case of the impeachment of the governor, or his removal from the office by death, resignation or
Página 588 - were very different. Hamilton was very diffuse and wordy. His words were so well chosen, and his sentences so finely formed into a swelling current, that the hearer would be captivated. The listener would admire if he was not convinced. Burr's arguments were generally methodized and compact. I

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