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, 1862 - Počet stran: 391 |
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Strana 14
... consider that the valley of the Mississippi , alone , is capable of containing and supporting a population equal to that of the whole of Europe , and let him ask himself if it be in the nature of things that a continent , embracing so ...
... consider that the valley of the Mississippi , alone , is capable of containing and supporting a population equal to that of the whole of Europe , and let him ask himself if it be in the nature of things that a continent , embracing so ...
Strana 15
... consider what its effects have been politically and socially , —what are the actual results of its institutions , and what influence they have exercised on the character of the people in public life . After this examination , it will ...
... consider what its effects have been politically and socially , —what are the actual results of its institutions , and what influence they have exercised on the character of the people in public life . After this examination , it will ...
Strana 24
... consider it unquestionable that it rendered im- portant service to the country at the period of its adoption . Our view is , that circumstances are so widely altered , that it suits them no longer , even if fairly interpreted . We ...
... consider it unquestionable that it rendered im- portant service to the country at the period of its adoption . Our view is , that circumstances are so widely altered , that it suits them no longer , even if fairly interpreted . We ...
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... consider how these elections are really conducted in America . The theory of the Constitution is , that the Presi- dent shall be elected by the people : and in order to avoid the difficulties arising from wide disper- sion , it provides ...
... consider how these elections are really conducted in America . The theory of the Constitution is , that the Presi- dent shall be elected by the people : and in order to avoid the difficulties arising from wide disper- sion , it provides ...
Strana 32
... consider the welfare of the country as a whole ; the attention and efforts of all are concen- trated on a single object , the success of the party ticket . Under such a system , we can no longer wonder at the contrast which the recent ...
... consider the welfare of the country as a whole ; the attention and efforts of all are concen- trated on a single object , the success of the party ticket . Under such a system , we can no longer wonder at the contrast which the recent ...
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Strana 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.
Strana 34 - 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.
Strana 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.
Strana 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...
Strana 338 - 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.
Strana 347 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Strana 372 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Strana 132 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Strana 353 - No person, except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President...
Strana 216 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.