The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1750-1833. State sovereignty and slavery, 1889Callaghan, 1876 |
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... southern states could adduce another instance . Chittenden , Debates of the Peace Convention , p . 262 . ' New Jersey , Delaware , Maryland , North Carolina , New Hampshire , South Carolina , Virginia , and Pennsylvania . the present ...
... southern states could adduce another instance . Chittenden , Debates of the Peace Convention , p . 262 . ' New Jersey , Delaware , Maryland , North Carolina , New Hampshire , South Carolina , Virginia , and Pennsylvania . the present ...
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... southern states are here excepted . Slavery has in this , as in all other respects , produced an abnormal state of affairs . Neither do we here include adopted citizens , although in the upper strata they very soon become assimilated ...
... southern states are here excepted . Slavery has in this , as in all other respects , produced an abnormal state of affairs . Neither do we here include adopted citizens , although in the upper strata they very soon become assimilated ...
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... southern , that the " geographical " and " sectional " character of the parties was a matter of frequent mention and lament . It is well to call special attention to this , because the erroneous view largely prevailed afterwards that ...
... southern , that the " geographical " and " sectional " character of the parties was a matter of frequent mention and lament . It is well to call special attention to this , because the erroneous view largely prevailed afterwards that ...
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... southern and the holders of it in the northern division . " Jefferson , Works , III . , p . 363. Hildreth ( Hist . of the U. S. , IV . , pp . 137 , 138 ) shows that this assertion was not wholly without foundation , although it was ...
... southern and the holders of it in the northern division . " Jefferson , Works , III . , p . 363. Hildreth ( Hist . of the U. S. , IV . , pp . 137 , 138 ) shows that this assertion was not wholly without foundation , although it was ...
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... southern delegates to the most violent declamation , and to draw from them the most violent threats . The noli me tangere was thrown back at the north in tones as emphatic and haughty as it was subsequently by Calhoun or Toombs . Here ...
... southern delegates to the most violent declamation , and to draw from them the most violent threats . The noli me tangere was thrown back at the north in tones as emphatic and haughty as it was subsequently by Calhoun or Toombs . Here ...
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Страница 47 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union ; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Страница 146 - ... deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the states who are parties thereto have the right, and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the...
Страница 204 - Gibbons v. Ogden, 9 Wheat. 1, 196, 6 L. ed. 23, 70, where he said: "We are now arrived at the inquiry, What is this power? It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Страница 163 - The use of force against a state would look more like a declaration of war than an infliction of punishment, and would probably be considered by the party attacked as a dissolution of all previous compacts by which it might be bound.
Страница 76 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence. This important consideration, seriously and deeply impressed on our minds, led each State in the convention to be less rigid on points of inferior magnitude than might have been otherwise expected...
Страница 151 - ... the General Assembly doth solemnly appeal to the like dispositions in the other states, in confidence that they will concur with this commonwealth in declaring, as it does hereby declare, that the acts aforesaid are unconstitutional ; — and that the necessary and proper measures will be taken by each for co-operating with this state, in maintaining unimpaired the authorities, rights, and liberties, reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.
Страница 361 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Страница 457 - The Cherokee nation, then, is a distinct community, occupying its own territory, with boundaries accurately described, in which the laws of Georgia can have no force, and which the citizens of Georgia have no right to enter, but with the assent of the Cherokees themselves, or in conformity with treaties, and with the acts of Congress.
Страница 420 - Our first and fundamental maxim should be, never to entangle ourselves in the broils of Europe. Our second, never to suffer Europe to intermeddle with cis-Atlantic affairs. America, North and South, has a set of interests distinct from those of Europe, and peculiarly her own. She should therefore have a system of her own, separate and apart from that of Europe. While the last is laboring to become the domicile of despotism, our endeavor should surely be, to make our hemisphere that of freedom.
Страница 493 - It is not the intention of the court to say that no individual can be guilty of this crime who has not appeared in arms against his country. On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose...