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eral government , as to national objects and purposes . ... to be fully adequate to
its extinguishment , it was also evident , that so long as the States should act
separately , there could be no just hope of accomplishing this most important
object .
eral government , as to national objects and purposes . ... to be fully adequate to
its extinguishment , it was also evident , that so long as the States should act
separately , there could be no just hope of accomplishing this most important
object .
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... that his efforts for those objects were censured by some of his fellow - citizens ;
and he was represented as not sufficiently firm and decided in supporting the
honor of the American government . The charge was alike unjust and impolitic .
... that his efforts for those objects were censured by some of his fellow - citizens ;
and he was represented as not sufficiently firm and decided in supporting the
honor of the American government . The charge was alike unjust and impolitic .
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He professed no specific object ; and it is not probable he had matured any
particular exclusive plan . And yet it was necessary for him , to avoid the charge
of a treasonable design of severing the Union , to have some ostensible object in
view ...
He professed no specific object ; and it is not probable he had matured any
particular exclusive plan . And yet it was necessary for him , to avoid the charge
of a treasonable design of severing the Union , to have some ostensible object in
view ...
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It was more probable , that his real object was , under various plausible
pretences , and professing to have other objects in view , to take possession of
New Orleans by force , if circumstances should be favorable , and there to collect
a ...
It was more probable , that his real object was , under various plausible
pretences , and professing to have other objects in view , to take possession of
New Orleans by force , if circumstances should be favorable , and there to collect
a ...
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Resolved , that the legitimate objects of government is the public good , to
promote which its powers ought to be exercised ... is an act of extreme
imprudence : That where the injury whieh must result is great and manifest , while
the object to be ...
Resolved , that the legitimate objects of government is the public good , to
promote which its powers ought to be exercised ... is an act of extreme
imprudence : That where the injury whieh must result is great and manifest , while
the object to be ...
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Seite 459 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Seite 87 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Seite 446 - It is, sir, the people's Constitution, the people's Government; made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.
Seite 462 - the constitution and the laws of the United States, made in pursuance thereof, shall be the supreme law of the land, anything in the constitution or laws of any state to the contrary notwithstanding.
Seite 16 - I dare hope is, that if, in executing this task, I have been too much swayed by a grateful remembrance of former instances, or by an affectionate sensibility to this transcendent proof of the confidence of my fellow-citizens and have thence too little consulted my incapacity as well as disinclination for the weighty and untried cares before me, my error will be palliated by the motives which misled me, and its consequences be judged by my country, with some share of the partiality in which they originated.
Seite 17 - He has been pleased to favor the American people with opportunities for deliberating in perfect tranquillity, and dispositions for deciding with unparalleled unanimity on a form of government for the security of their union and the advancement of their happiness...
Seite 15 - On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years, a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary as well as more dear to me by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time.
Seite 457 - We, who are your agents and servants for one purpose, will undertake to decide, that your other agents and servants, appointed by you for another purpose, have transcended the authority you gave them! " The reply would be, I think, not impertinent — " Who made you a judge over another's servants? To their own masters they stand or fall.
Seite 458 - But while the people choose to maintain it as it is, while they are satisfied with it and refuse to change it, who has given or who can give to the State legislatures a right to alter it, either by interference, construction, or otherwise ? Gentlemen do not seem to recollect that the people have any power to do anything for themselves.
Seite 311 - States were bound, in good faith, to extinguish the Indian title to lands within the limits of Georgia, so soon as it could be done peaceably and on reasonable terms.
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| Titel | History of the Federal Government for Fifty Years : from March, 1789 to March, 1839 |
| Autor/in | Alden Bradford |
| Verlag | S.G. Simpson, 1840 |
| Original von | New York Public Library |
| Digitalisiert | 28. Febr. 2008 |
| Länge | 480 Seiten |
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