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 viii
... views which follow on the general reverence for force , the outrage of Captain Wilkes and the eager applause that welcomed it , are striking verifications . Admirably as that Trent outrage has been in- vestigated , and as the alleged ...
... views which follow on the general reverence for force , the outrage of Captain Wilkes and the eager applause that welcomed it , are striking verifications . Admirably as that Trent outrage has been in- vestigated , and as the alleged ...
Strana xiv
... views opposed to the Constitution and the Supreme Court Future prospect of the South if remaining in the Union Holland and Belgium . - General reflections on this subject CHAPTER IV . THE SLAVERY QUESTION . Hardships of slavery greatly ...
... views opposed to the Constitution and the Supreme Court Future prospect of the South if remaining in the Union Holland and Belgium . - General reflections on this subject CHAPTER IV . THE SLAVERY QUESTION . Hardships of slavery greatly ...
Strana 40
... views we may judge by his own words . Alluding to Shay's rebellion , he writes : " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion . The people cannot be all and always well - informed . The part which is wrong will ...
... views we may judge by his own words . Alluding to Shay's rebellion , he writes : " God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion . The people cannot be all and always well - informed . The part which is wrong will ...
Strana 47
... views enlarged by a knowledge of the world , these are in every respect exceptions to the mass , and it will be very necessary to escape from impressions , produced by their acquaintance , if we are to form a correct judgment of those ...
... views enlarged by a knowledge of the world , these are in every respect exceptions to the mass , and it will be very necessary to escape from impressions , produced by their acquaintance , if we are to form a correct judgment of those ...
Strana 48
... Views that were adapted to the dimensions of a kingdom , have expanded to those of a continent . As State was added after State , the growth of these views became more rapid and indefinite , until it seemed impossible to assume any ...
... Views that were adapted to the dimensions of a kingdom , have expanded to those of a continent . As State was added after State , the growth of these views became more rapid and indefinite , until it seemed impossible to assume any ...
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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.