Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Band 1Boston Book Company, 1895 - 713 Seiten |
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... England . Taxes were voted to be needless burdens , courts of justice to be intolerable grievances , and lawyers a common nuisance . These doctrines were embraced by at least twelve thousand men in the New England States , with ...
... England . Taxes were voted to be needless burdens , courts of justice to be intolerable grievances , and lawyers a common nuisance . These doctrines were embraced by at least twelve thousand men in the New England States , with ...
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... England States , one - half of them by the State of Massachusetts , to serve for the term of three years , for the protec- tion and support of the western States and the Mississippi settlements , and to secure and facilitate the survey ...
... England States , one - half of them by the State of Massachusetts , to serve for the term of three years , for the protec- tion and support of the western States and the Mississippi settlements , and to secure and facilitate the survey ...
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... England colonies from a treaty of alliance against their surrounding enemies , until the duce ill , but cannot produce good ; smite them in the name of God and the people . " Gen. Knox to Rufus King , July 15 , 1787. Rufus King's Life ...
... England colonies from a treaty of alliance against their surrounding enemies , until the duce ill , but cannot produce good ; smite them in the name of God and the people . " Gen. Knox to Rufus King , July 15 , 1787. Rufus King's Life ...
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... England abandon them to their own resources . Even then , the New England Confederation of 16431 was too nar- row for the admission of Rhode Island ; was unable to always obtain the obedience to its requisitions by Massachusetts ; 2 ...
... England abandon them to their own resources . Even then , the New England Confederation of 16431 was too nar- row for the admission of Rhode Island ; was unable to always obtain the obedience to its requisitions by Massachusetts ; 2 ...
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... England , and to be subject to the veto of the King in council . The scheme was rejected by all the colonial assemblies to which it was proposed , as strengthening too highly the prerogative . The Board of Trade refused approval because ...
... England , and to be subject to the veto of the King in council . The scheme was rejected by all the colonial assemblies to which it was proposed , as strengthening too highly the prerogative . The Board of Trade refused approval because ...
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Seite 206 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Seite 92 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, 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 pretence whatever.
Seite 86 - RESOLVED, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Seite 84 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Seite 372 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.
Seite 24 - In no country perhaps in the world is the law so general a study. The profession itself is numerous and powerful ; and in most provinces it takes the lead. The greater number of the deputies sent to the congress were lawyers. But all who read, and most do read, endeavour to obtain some smattering in that science.
Seite 339 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
Seite 28 - Will you solemnly promise and swear to govern the people of this kingdom of England, and the dominions thereto belonging, according to the statutes in parliament agreed on, and the laws and customs of the same? — The king or queen shall say, I solemnly promise so to do.
Seite 24 - This study renders men acute, inquisitive, dexterous, prompt in attack, ready in defence, full of resources. In other countries, the people, more simple, and of a less mercurial cast, judge of an ill principle in government only by an actual grievance; here they anticipate the evil, and judge of the pressure of the grievance by the badness of the principle. They augur misgovernment at a distance; and snuff the approach of tyranny in every tainted breeze.
Seite 289 - ... it would be a dangerous delusion were a confidence in the men of our choice to silence our fears for the safety of our rights : that confidence is everywhere the parent of despotism : free government is founded in jealousy and not in confidence ; it is jealousy and not confidence which prescribes limited Constitutions to bind down those whom we are obliged to trust with power...