Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Band 2Little, Brown, 1873 - 737 Seiten |
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... jury , notwithstanding the remonstrances of the bench . At length Judge Davis , under some excitement , and after repeated admo- nitions , said to Mr. Dexter , that if he again attempted to raise that question to the jury , he should ...
... jury , notwithstanding the remonstrances of the bench . At length Judge Davis , under some excitement , and after repeated admo- nitions , said to Mr. Dexter , that if he again attempted to raise that question to the jury , he should ...
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... jury , notwithstanding the decision of a single judge of an inferior grade ; and that he should proceed to do so regardless of any consequences . He then turned to the jury , and , undisturbed by the court , began , continued , and ...
... jury , notwithstanding the decision of a single judge of an inferior grade ; and that he should proceed to do so regardless of any consequences . He then turned to the jury , and , undisturbed by the court , began , continued , and ...
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... jury ; ' and in the fourth , fifth , and sixth articles of the amendments . The fourth proclaims the right to be secure in person and effects against unreasonable search and seizure ; and directs that a judicial warrant shall not issue ...
... jury ; ' and in the fourth , fifth , and sixth articles of the amendments . The fourth proclaims the right to be secure in person and effects against unreasonable search and seizure ; and directs that a judicial warrant shall not issue ...
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... jury of the district with proofs of his guilt , and , if indicted , try him according to the course of the common law . If this had been done , the Constitution would have been vindicated , the law of 1863 enforced , and the securities ...
... jury of the district with proofs of his guilt , and , if indicted , try him according to the course of the common law . If this had been done , the Constitution would have been vindicated , the law of 1863 enforced , and the securities ...
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... jury , was the only sure way of protecting the citizen against oppression and wrong . Knowing this , they limited the suspension to one great right , and left the rest inviolable . But , it is insisted that the safety of the country in ...
... jury , was the only sure way of protecting the citizen against oppression and wrong . Knowing this , they limited the suspension to one great right , and left the rest inviolable . But , it is insisted that the safety of the country in ...
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Seite 101 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Seite 664 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Seite 669 - The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Seite 643 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Seite 67 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Seite 698 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Seite 640 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Seite 605 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Seite 4 - Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Seite 125 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?