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 xii
... followed soon by a fresh herbage of a purer and a choicer green . Let us hope that when this fiery wind has spent its force , the people of America , purged from the rankness of too sudden growth , may arise to a renovated career , and ...
... followed soon by a fresh herbage of a purer and a choicer green . Let us hope that when this fiery wind has spent its force , the people of America , purged from the rankness of too sudden growth , may arise to a renovated career , and ...
Strana 7
... followed it , and now exists . The history of Greece affords an example of two Federations , somewhat similar in their principles to the two Constitutions of the Union . Under the Amphictyonic Council the States of Greece were loosely ...
... followed it , and now exists . The history of Greece affords an example of two Federations , somewhat similar in their principles to the two Constitutions of the Union . Under the Amphictyonic Council the States of Greece were loosely ...
Strana 18
... followed by oppressive debts and exhausted resources . No system of government could have prevented a period of dreary reaction from the excitement of the war , or a sorrowful reckoning of its cost . And after this term had passed away ...
... followed by oppressive debts and exhausted resources . No system of government could have prevented a period of dreary reaction from the excitement of the war , or a sorrowful reckoning of its cost . And after this term had passed away ...
Strana 19
... followed the war with this country in 1814 , though the Constitution was then in full operation , and since , there have been periods of panic , of general bank suspensions , and wide - spread insolvency , with long terms of gloomy ...
... followed the war with this country in 1814 , though the Constitution was then in full operation , and since , there have been periods of panic , of general bank suspensions , and wide - spread insolvency , with long terms of gloomy ...
Strana 40
... followed and subverted by this spirit of extreme democracy , imported from France . Jefferson , and not Washington , has been the guide of the country for the last fifty years . One of the many results of this change which we shall meet ...
... followed and subverted by this spirit of extreme democracy , imported from France . Jefferson , and not Washington , has been the guide of the country for the last fifty years . One of the many results of this change which we shall meet ...
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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.