Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: Dec. 3, 1832-July 4, 1836D. Appleton, 1860 |
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... gentlemen from the South in regard to it . At one period , he now added , Maryland had been considered a Southern State , as she was still a slaveholding State : from the chief city of that State , directly after the meeting of Congress ...
... gentlemen from the South in regard to it . At one period , he now added , Maryland had been considered a Southern State , as she was still a slaveholding State : from the chief city of that State , directly after the meeting of Congress ...
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... gentlemen , by way of illustration . It was one which they would feel disposed to resent , and one to which he felt a repugnance to refer ; but he would take it as illustrative of the opinions he had thrown out . There was to be found ...
... gentlemen , by way of illustration . It was one which they would feel disposed to resent , and one to which he felt a repugnance to refer ; but he would take it as illustrative of the opinions he had thrown out . There was to be found ...
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... gentlemen of such distinguished ability . But the bill before the Senate involved questions of such magnitude , that he could not content himself with a silent vote upon it . The subject was of high interest to the State which he had ...
... gentlemen of such distinguished ability . But the bill before the Senate involved questions of such magnitude , that he could not content himself with a silent vote upon it . The subject was of high interest to the State which he had ...
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... gentlemen to an admission of the rights of secession - a doctrine which , perhaps , they would not be willing to allow ; for if a State has not the right of secession , no act that she herself may do , or omit to do , can place her out ...
... gentlemen to an admission of the rights of secession - a doctrine which , perhaps , they would not be willing to allow ; for if a State has not the right of secession , no act that she herself may do , or omit to do , can place her out ...
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... gentlemen who have taken the strong ground , like Napoleon , have thrown out the declaration that there must be no neu- trals . [ SENATE . which would meet with the approbation of all pure democrats . It was the authority of George ...
... gentlemen who have taken the strong ground , like Napoleon , have thrown out the declaration that there must be no neu- trals . [ SENATE . which would meet with the approbation of all pure democrats . It was the authority of George ...
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Seite 27 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Seite 211 - ... which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience. To aid him in the performance of these duties, he is authorized to appoint certain officers, who act by his authority, and in conformity with his orders. " In such cases their acts .are his acts ; and whatever opinion may be entertained of the manner in which Executive discretion may be used, still there exists, and can exist, no power to control that discretion....
Seite 15 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Seite 331 - ... that all public functionaries are essentially invested with the powers of self-preservation ; that they have an inherent right to do all acts necessary to keep themselves in a condition to discharge the trusts confided to them ; that whenever authorities are given, the means of carrying them into execution are given by necessary implication ; that thus we see the British Parliament exercise the right of punishing contempts ; all the State Legislatures exercise the same power ; and every Court...
Seite 30 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us, in convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 211 - By the constitution of the United States the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Seite 257 - He never stooped to the arena of partisan discussions, but in the consideration of important subjects, especially that of the removal of the public deposits from the Bank of the United States, he proved himself to be a statesman of high rank, and a most accomplished debater.
Seite 30 - State will thenceforth hold themselves absolved from all further obligation to maintain or preserve their political connection with the people of the other States, and will forthwith proceed to organize a separate Government, and do all other acts and things, which sovereign and independent States may of right do.
Seite 27 - The judicial power shall extend to all cases in law and equity arising under the constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under their authority...
Seite 316 - ... powers of government which it has ordained and established, destructive of the checks and safeguards by which those powers were intended on the one hand to be controlled and on the other to be protected, and calculated by their immediate and collateral effects, by their character and tendency, to concentrate in the hands of a body not directly amenable to the people a degree of influence and power dangerous to their liberties and fatal to the Constitution of their choice.