The American Union: Its Effect on National Character and Policy, with an Inquiry Into Secession as a Constitutional Right, and the Causes of the DisruptionR. Bentley, 1861 - 366 Seiten |
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... growth of riches come the means of political corruption , — with the accumulation of masses of indigent popu- lation arise the elements of discontent , —with the development of special branches of industry con- flicting interests come ...
... growth of riches come the means of political corruption , — with the accumulation of masses of indigent popu- lation arise the elements of discontent , —with the development of special branches of industry con- flicting interests come ...
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... growth , when men's minds are absorbed in their own pursuits , -the backwoodsman in clearing the forest , or the farmer in ploughing up the prairie , —but all this has an end . The question is simply one of time , unless we assume that ...
... growth , when men's minds are absorbed in their own pursuits , -the backwoodsman in clearing the forest , or the farmer in ploughing up the prairie , —but all this has an end . The question is simply one of time , unless we assume that ...
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... growth . We may assume that the government of the colonies by Great Britain must have been bad , to excite them to rebel , although , indeed , we see rebellion now , as a result of what we are told are excellent institutions . But ...
... growth . We may assume that the government of the colonies by Great Britain must have been bad , to excite them to rebel , although , indeed , we see rebellion now , as a result of what we are told are excellent institutions . But ...
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... growth of a people . Tables of imports and exports are a very uncertain test of the merits of governments . Venice flourished in golden magnificence under a detestable political system . India was in political subjection to a foreign ...
... growth of a people . Tables of imports and exports are a very uncertain test of the merits of governments . Venice flourished in golden magnificence under a detestable political system . India was in political subjection to a foreign ...
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... growth of the poplar is rapid , when compared with the growth of the oak ; but we know that its value is proportionately small . There is always a ratio between growth and durability , and a law exists that 24 THE AMERICAN UNION .
... growth of the poplar is rapid , when compared with the growth of the oak ; but we know that its value is proportionately small . There is always a ratio between growth and durability , and a law exists that 24 THE AMERICAN UNION .
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Seite 356 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Seite 357 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Seite 38 - What signify a few lives lost in a century or two ? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Seite 351 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Seite 334 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Seite 335 - No State shall be represented in Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or any other for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Seite 354 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Seite 352 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Seite 328 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 340 - ... office — appointing all officers of the land forces, in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers — appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States — making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. THE United States in Congress assembled shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...