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 vii
... party has been degraded into a vulgar scramble for emoluments ; the able and honoured representa- tives of opinion , whose very names were once watchwords of fidelity and fame , were super- seded by men of secondary ability and ...
... party has been degraded into a vulgar scramble for emoluments ; the able and honoured representa- tives of opinion , whose very names were once watchwords of fidelity and fame , were super- seded by men of secondary ability and ...
Strana xvi
... parties Magnitude of the Northern power afterwards Would remain possessed of all essential attributes Beneficial effects of the removal of slavery NOTES APPENDIX . DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PRESENT CONSTITUTION · CONSTITUTION OF THE ...
... parties Magnitude of the Northern power afterwards Would remain possessed of all essential attributes Beneficial effects of the removal of slavery NOTES APPENDIX . DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE PRESENT CONSTITUTION · CONSTITUTION OF THE ...
Strana 1
... party . We have endea- voured to collect and weigh dispassionately the evidence and argument of both sections of the Union . It is not intended to offer the whole of this evidence , and to place before the reader a collection of ...
... party . We have endea- voured to collect and weigh dispassionately the evidence and argument of both sections of the Union . It is not intended to offer the whole of this evidence , and to place before the reader a collection of ...
Strana 2
... parties to the contest , as sharing the suffering it creates . So far the So far the progress of events has still per- mitted us to look on as spectators ; but the time ap- proaches when large masses of our population will be reduced to ...
... parties to the contest , as sharing the suffering it creates . So far the So far the progress of events has still per- mitted us to look on as spectators ; but the time ap- proaches when large masses of our population will be reduced to ...
Strana 3
... parties . The Federal or legitimate party - for , strange as it seems , this term may now be used in American affairs - have an overwhelming com- mand of the press . They have the ear of Europe , and the advantage of exclusive and ...
... parties . The Federal or legitimate party - for , strange as it seems , this term may now be used in American affairs - have an overwhelming com- mand of the press . They have the ear of Europe , and the advantage of exclusive and ...
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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.