A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General ReadersAmerican Book Company, 1840 - 372 Seiten |
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... limited and defined by the colonists themselves , in its actual application , the common law became the guardian of their civil and political rights ; t protected their infant liberties ; it watched over their maturer growth ; it ...
... limited and defined by the colonists themselves , in its actual application , the common law became the guardian of their civil and political rights ; t protected their infant liberties ; it watched over their maturer growth ; it ...
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... limited . They assumed , among others , the power to declare war and make peace , to raise armies and equip navies , to form treaties and allian- ces with foreign nations , to contract public debts , and to do all other sovereign acts ...
... limited . They assumed , among others , the power to declare war and make peace , to raise armies and equip navies , to form treaties and allian- ces with foreign nations , to contract public debts , and to do all other sovereign acts ...
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... limited ; and their revenue from imports would , if there were no national government , be small and fluctuating . Their whole system would be defeated by the jealousy , or competitions , or local interests of their neighbors . The want ...
... limited ; and their revenue from imports would , if there were no national government , be small and fluctuating . Their whole system would be defeated by the jealousy , or competitions , or local interests of their neighbors . The want ...
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... limited each of the others to a term of years . § 63. But when we speak of a separation of the three great departments of government , and maintain , that that separation is indispensable to public liberty , we are to understand this ...
... limited each of the others to a term of years . § 63. But when we speak of a separation of the three great departments of government , and maintain , that that separation is indispensable to public liberty , we are to understand this ...
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... limited as that power was , this concentration of it , in a single body , was deemed a prominent defect . The Constitution , on the other hand , adopts , as a fundamental rule , the exercise of the legislative power by two distinct and ...
... limited as that power was , this concentration of it , in a single body , was deemed a prominent defect . The Constitution , on the other hand , adopts , as a fundamental rule , the exercise of the legislative power by two distinct and ...
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