The American Union; Its Effect on National Character and Policy: With an Inquiry Into Secession as Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1862 - 366 Seiten |
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... institutions we are to copy , let us never copy their practice so frequently illustrated in the following pages of adopting a principle at one time and reversing it at another , to suit the convenience of the hour . There is , however ...
... institutions we are to copy , let us never copy their practice so frequently illustrated in the following pages of adopting a principle at one time and reversing it at another , to suit the convenience of the hour . There is , however ...
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... institutions beneath the yoke of military despotism , and must inevitably burthen the North with a crushing load of debt- and further , that the restoration of the Union , were it possible , would be of uttermost injury to the true ...
... institutions beneath the yoke of military despotism , and must inevitably burthen the North with a crushing load of debt- and further , that the restoration of the Union , were it possible , would be of uttermost injury to the true ...
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... institutions , flatter the present humour , urge a continuance of the recent course . It is because we desire to see them kinsmen whom we respect to hold them not merely as related by descent , but in the warmer relationship of manly ...
... institutions , flatter the present humour , urge a continuance of the recent course . It is because we desire to see them kinsmen whom we respect to hold them not merely as related by descent , but in the warmer relationship of manly ...
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... institutions Decline of ability at the head of the State Payment of members . -Political corruption . Unqualified suffrage and democratic excess . • Exclusion of ministers from Congress and its effects l'age . 3 7 8 10 12 • 16 21 25 35 ...
... institutions Decline of ability at the head of the State Payment of members . -Political corruption . Unqualified suffrage and democratic excess . • Exclusion of ministers from Congress and its effects l'age . 3 7 8 10 12 • 16 21 25 35 ...
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... APPENDIX . DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION PRESENT CONSTITUTION Page . 300 • 303 305 • 311 314 319 321 322 329 336 346 THE AMERICAN UNION . CHAPTER I. THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF xvi CONTENTS .
... APPENDIX . DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION PRESENT CONSTITUTION Page . 300 • 303 305 • 311 314 319 321 322 329 336 346 THE AMERICAN UNION . CHAPTER I. THE POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS OF xvi CONTENTS .
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Seite 354 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Seite 340 - ... the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority or by that of the respective States ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States ; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Seite 349 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Seite 352 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Seite 350 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Seite 328 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise, the State remaining', in the mean time, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 334 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretense whatever.
Seite 354 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Seite 330 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries, to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Seite 136 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...