The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1851 |
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... decide questions on which not only the fortune and happiness of individuals , but the character of some laws , and sometimes the faith of treaties , may depend . SENATE . questions in which the lives or characters of our citizens , may ...
... decide questions on which not only the fortune and happiness of individuals , but the character of some laws , and sometimes the faith of treaties , may depend . SENATE . questions in which the lives or characters of our citizens , may ...
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... deciding disputed. SENATE . Ordered , That the further consideration thereof be postponed until the second Tuesday in March next . THURSDAY , February , 13 . The Senate took into consideration the amend- ment reported by the committee ...
... deciding disputed. SENATE . Ordered , That the further consideration thereof be postponed until the second Tuesday in March next . THURSDAY , February , 13 . The Senate took into consideration the amend- ment reported by the committee ...
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... deciding disputed elections of President and Vice President of the United States ; and , af- ter debate , adjourned . THURSDAY , February 20 . Mr. GOODHUE presented the petition of the ex- ecutors of Elias Haskett Derby , late of Salem ...
... deciding disputed elections of President and Vice President of the United States ; and , af- ter debate , adjourned . THURSDAY , February 20 . Mr. GOODHUE presented the petition of the ex- ecutors of Elias Haskett Derby , late of Salem ...
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... deciding disputed elections of President to the Senate . and Vice President of the United States , which was printed in the aforesaid newspaper , published Wednes- day morning , the 19th instant , February , and by what authority he ...
... deciding disputed elections of President to the Senate . and Vice President of the United States , which was printed in the aforesaid newspaper , published Wednes- day morning , the 19th instant , February , and by what authority he ...
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... deciding disputed elections of President and Vice President of the United States . On motion , to amend the Sth ... decide on the propriety of referring the business SENATE . their respective Houses , and in going to 67 68 HISTORY ...
... deciding disputed elections of President and Vice President of the United States . On motion , to amend the Sth ... decide on the propriety of referring the business SENATE . their respective Houses , and in going to 67 68 HISTORY ...
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Seite 75 - ... aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the defendant, upon the trial of the cause, to give in evidence in his defence, the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel. And the jury who shall try the cause, shall have a right to determine the law and the fact, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
Seite 165 - AN ACT providing for the sale of the lands of the United States in the Territory NORTHWEST of the Ohio, and above the mouth of the Kentucky river...
Seite 17 - Among all our original associates in that memorable league of this continent in 1774, which first expressed the sovereign will of a free nation in America, he was the only one remaining in the general government. Although with a constitution more enfeebled than his, at an age when he thought it necessary to prepare for retirement, I feel myself alone, bereaved of my last brother ; yet I derive a strong consolation from the unanimous disposition which appears in all ages and classes to mingle their...
Seite 765 - ... the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people — a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Seite 765 - Without pretensions to that high confidence you reposed in our first and greatest revolutionary character, whose pre-eminent services had entitled him to the first place in his country's love, and destined for him the fairest page in the volume of faithful history, I ask so much confidence only as may give firmness and effect to the legal administration of your affairs. I shall often go wrong through defect of judgment. When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not...
Seite 525 - An act further to suspend the commercial intercourse between the United States and France and the dependencies thereof...
Seite 73 - ... shall threaten harm to the body or estate of any of its members, for any thing said or done in the house; or who shall assault any of them therefor; or who shall assault, or arrest, any witness, or other person, ordered to attend the house, in his way in going or returning; or who shall rescue any person arrested by the order of the house.
Seite 47 - An act regulating the grants of land appropriated for military services, and for the Society of the United Brethren for propagating the Gospel among the Heathen ;" which amendments were adopted ; and the bill was ordered to the third reading as amended.
Seite 119 - an act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Seite 523 - An act more effectually to provide for the national defence, by establishing an uniform militia throughout the United States " which act is in the words following vizt.