The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... Territory of Michigan , agreeably to the boundaries as established by the act , entitled " An act to enable the people of the Indiana Territory to form a constitution and State government , and for the ad- mission of such State into the ...
... Territory of Michigan , agreeably to the boundaries as established by the act , entitled " An act to enable the people of the Indiana Territory to form a constitution and State government , and for the ad- mission of such State into the ...
Strana 51
... Territory of Vermont , that the said territory shall be admit- ted to be a distinct member of our Union . ( 1 ) the 18th of the same month , ( 2 ) an act of Con- gress was approved for the admission of Vermont into the Union , without ...
... Territory of Vermont , that the said territory shall be admit- ted to be a distinct member of our Union . ( 1 ) the 18th of the same month , ( 2 ) an act of Con- gress was approved for the admission of Vermont into the Union , without ...
Strana 59
... territory was ceded by Virginia to the United States , there was a stipulation to exclude slavery ; notwithstanding ... Territory of Orleans , before it became the State of Louisiana . By one of the territorial laws of Orleans , of the ...
... territory was ceded by Virginia to the United States , there was a stipulation to exclude slavery ; notwithstanding ... Territory of Orleans , before it became the State of Louisiana . By one of the territorial laws of Orleans , of the ...
Strana 77
... Territory of Missouri into the Union as a State , submit the following report : The history of nations demonstrates that involun- tary servitude not only plunges the slave into the depths of misery , but renders a great proportion of ...
... Territory of Missouri into the Union as a State , submit the following report : The history of nations demonstrates that involun- tary servitude not only plunges the slave into the depths of misery , but renders a great proportion of ...
Strana 83
... territory whose soil and the local authority , the State sovereignty which products would not admit of a numerous ... Territories having a crowded black population , power which makes a slave can make him free , would induce an ...
... territory whose soil and the local authority , the State sovereignty which products would not admit of a numerous ... Territories having a crowded black population , power which makes a slave can make him free , would induce an ...
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Strana 731 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Strana 543 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress , assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Strana 111 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever.
Strana 55 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Strana 337 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Strana 731 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Strana 607 - States in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State...
Strana 671 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Strana 783 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion. Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home.
Strana 93 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...