A Sketch of the History of the United States from Independence to SecessionMacmillan and Company, 1862 - Počet stran: 404 |
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... given way to the jarring passions which have now broken out into open warfare , that , perhaps , if I were to seek the most prominent result of the War of Independence still lingering in the American people - over and above , of course ...
... given way to the jarring passions which have now broken out into open warfare , that , perhaps , if I were to seek the most prominent result of the War of Independence still lingering in the American people - over and above , of course ...
Strana 32
... given to Congress to provide by law for the like case as respects the latter ( § 6 ) . The Presi- dent receives a compensation for his services , but which is not to be increased or diminished during his term of office , nor can he ...
... given to Congress to provide by law for the like case as respects the latter ( § 6 ) . The Presi- dent receives a compensation for his services , but which is not to be increased or diminished during his term of office , nor can he ...
Strana 33
... for treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors ( sec . 4 ) . It will be obvious to you that the power of consent given to the Senate as to treaties and appointments to D 34 THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET . high office affords.
... for treason or other high crimes and misdemeanors ( sec . 4 ) . It will be obvious to you that the power of consent given to the Senate as to treaties and appointments to D 34 THE PRESIDENT AND HIS CABINET . high office affords.
Strana 41
... given you the effect of it already . Such is the Constitution of the United States - a document under which the government of the United States has been carried on , without interruption , from the 4th March , 1789 , the date of the ...
... given you the effect of it already . Such is the Constitution of the United States - a document under which the government of the United States has been carried on , without interruption , from the 4th March , 1789 , the date of the ...
Strana 46
... given date , at fifteen ( 1784 ) . Yet more striking is it that , on the accidental absence of a single delegate , turned the question of the absolute arrest of any future development of the slave power . The story is so curious a one ...
... given date , at fifteen ( 1784 ) . Yet more striking is it that , on the accidental absence of a single delegate , turned the question of the absolute arrest of any future development of the slave power . The story is so curious a one ...
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Strana 63 - ... the palladium of your political safety and prosperity, watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Strana 28 - To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Strana 70 - ... of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people...
Strana 85 - We have met the enemy and they are ours; two ships, two brigs, one schooner and one sloop.
Strana 140 - To say that any state may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
Strana 27 - States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Strana 120 - European powers to extend their system to any portion of this hemisphere as dangerous to our peace and safety...
Strana 22 - 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...
Strana 13 - ... free and independent States; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown, and that all political connection between them and the state of Great Britain is, and ought to be, totally dissolved ; and that, as free and independent States, they have full power to levy war, conclude peace, contract alliances, establish commerce, and do all other acts and things which independent States may of right do.
Strana 139 - But each State having expressly parted with so many powers as to constitute jointly with the other States a single nation, cannot from that period possess any right to secede, because such secession does not break a league, but destroys the unity of a nation...