Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the ... Session of the ... Congress, Band 1;Band 12;Band 64Gales & Seaton, 1836 |
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... petition for rechartering a bank in the city of Washington had been presented by a gentleman near him , and been referred , without ex- citing his immediate attention . During the last session he had objected to the receiving of petitions ...
... petition for rechartering a bank in the city of Washington had been presented by a gentleman near him , and been referred , without ex- citing his immediate attention . During the last session he had objected to the receiving of petitions ...
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... petition of sundry citi zens of Alexandria , District of Columbia , numerously signed , on the subject of the financial condition of that town . The petitioners state , said Mr. B. , that the corporate authorities of Alexandria had , to ...
... petition of sundry citi zens of Alexandria , District of Columbia , numerously signed , on the subject of the financial condition of that town . The petitioners state , said Mr. B. , that the corporate authorities of Alexandria had , to ...
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... petition a funda- mental right ? I believe it is a sacred and fundamental right , belonging to the people , to petition Congress for the redress of their grievances . While this right is secured by the constitution , it is incompetent ...
... petition a funda- mental right ? I believe it is a sacred and fundamental right , belonging to the people , to petition Congress for the redress of their grievances . While this right is secured by the constitution , it is incompetent ...
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... petition . No one , sir , values that right more highly than I do , nor would guard it more scrupulously . I hold that the people have a right to petition and to remonstrate on any subject they please . But just as that right is ...
... petition . No one , sir , values that right more highly than I do , nor would guard it more scrupulously . I hold that the people have a right to petition and to remonstrate on any subject they please . But just as that right is ...
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... petition . It was a wanton attack on the right of property of the slaveholders of this District . It surely ( said Mr. P. ) can require no time or delibera- tion to enable us to decide whether A has a right to take what belongs to B ...
... petition . It was a wanton attack on the right of property of the slaveholders of this District . It surely ( said Mr. P. ) can require no time or delibera- tion to enable us to decide whether A has a right to take what belongs to B ...
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Seite 603 - To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.
Seite 579 - Thence to the famous orators repair, Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence Wielded at will that fierce democratic, Shook the arsenal, and fulmined over Greece To Macedon and Artaxerxes
Seite 515 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Seite 189 - That nothing herein contained shall be so construed to vest in the United States any right of property in the soil, as to affect the rights of individuals therein, otherwise than the same shall or may be transferred by such individuals to the United States...
Seite 35 - Pennsylvania line aforesaid ; provided always, and it is hereby fully understood and declared by this convention, that if the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan should extend so far south that a line drawn due east from it should not intersect Lake Erie, or if it should intersect the...
Seite 509 - That the inhabitants of the English colonies in North America, by the immutable laws of nature, the principles of the English Constitution, and the several charters or compacts, have the following rights : Resolved, NCD 1.
Seite 17 - Pennsylvania, and the said territorial line; provided however, and it is further understood and declared that the boundaries of these three states, shall be subject so far to be altered, that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two states in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan...
Seite 189 - States, in full and absolute right and exclusive jurisdiction, as well of soil as of persons residing or to reside thereon, pursuant to the tenor and effect of the eighth section of the first article of the constitution of the Government of the United States...
Seite 579 - I wish POPULARITY, but it is that popularity which follows, not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends by noble means.
Seite 35 - States, and for other purposes, whereby the said State has become one of the United States of America: in order therefore to provide for the due execution of the laws of the United States within the said State of Ohio.