THE AMERICAN CONFLICT A HISTORY OF THE GREAT CIVIL WAR IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA 1860-641865 |
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... the Federal councils on an equal footing with the original States at as | early periods as may be consistent with the general interest : V. THE CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION . THE experiment of 40 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT .
... the Federal councils on an equal footing with the original States at as | early periods as may be consistent with the general interest : V. THE CONVENTION AND THE CONSTITUTION . THE experiment of 40 THE AMERICAN CONFLICT .
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... equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever , and shall be at liberty to form a permanent con- stitution and State government ; provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican , and in ...
... equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever , and shall be at liberty to form a permanent con- stitution and State government ; provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican , and in ...
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... equal tax with other imports ; which he thought | ished by the concurrence of the few States right , and which would remove one difficulty that had been started . bodying in the Constitution a pro- | should they be. a Constitution as ...
... equal tax with other imports ; which he thought | ished by the concurrence of the few States right , and which would remove one difficulty that had been started . bodying in the Constitution a pro- | should they be. a Constitution as ...
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... equal share of repre- sentation with the other inhabitants . " - The Feder- alist , vol . ii . , p . 46 . · slaves are considered merely as property , and in no respect whatever as persons . The true state of the case is , that they ...
... equal share of repre- sentation with the other inhabitants . " - The Feder- alist , vol . ii . , p . 46 . · slaves are considered merely as property , and in no respect whatever as persons . The true state of the case is , that they ...
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... equal , but as the subject of her elder sisters - that the power thus exercised involved the assertion of unlimited and utterly irresponsi- ble authority to shape and mold the institutions of every new State - was pressed with eminent ...
... equal , but as the subject of her elder sisters - that the power thus exercised involved the assertion of unlimited and utterly irresponsi- ble authority to shape and mold the institutions of every new State - was pressed with eminent ...
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Страница 42 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Страница 266 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it ; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements.
Страница 41 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact, between the original states and the people and states in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE i.
Страница 35 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot by any compact deprive or divest their posterity ; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Страница 41 - And, in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared, that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory, that shall, in any manner whatever, interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Страница 84 - Government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force : that to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : that the Government created by this compact, was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself ; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers ; but that, as in all other cases of compact...
Страница 423 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Страница 41 - Congress ; but laws founded in justice and humanity shall, from time to time, be made, for preventing wrongs being done to them, and for preserving peace and friendship with them.
Страница 41 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said Territory as to the citizens of the United States and those of any other States that may be admitted into the Confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.
Страница 41 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.