The American Politician: Containing the Declaration of the Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Inaugural and First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents, and Other Important State Papers; Together with a Selection of Interesting Statistical Tables, and Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Several Presidents, and Many Other Distinguished CharactersE. Leland and W.J. Whiting, 1842 - 552 páginas |
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... assembly like that which has so often been seen in this and the other cham- ber of Congress , of a government , in which the executive authority , as well as that of all the branches of the legisla- ture , are exercised by citizens ...
... assembly like that which has so often been seen in this and the other cham- ber of Congress , of a government , in which the executive authority , as well as that of all the branches of the legisla- ture , are exercised by citizens ...
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... assembly , who have come here either prepared to condemn those I shall now deliver , or , ap- proving them , to doubt the sincerity with which they are uttered . But the lapse of a few months will confirm or dispel their fears . The ...
... assembly , who have come here either prepared to condemn those I shall now deliver , or , ap- proving them , to doubt the sincerity with which they are uttered . But the lapse of a few months will confirm or dispel their fears . The ...
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... assembly which framed the constitution , for the adoption of a provision so apparently repugnant to the leading democratic principle , that the majority should govern , we must reject the idea that they anticipated from it any benefit ...
... assembly which framed the constitution , for the adoption of a provision so apparently repugnant to the leading democratic principle , that the majority should govern , we must reject the idea that they anticipated from it any benefit ...
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... assemblies I have unhesitatingly announced it ; and the last public declaration which I have made , and that but a short time before the late presidential election , I re- ferred to my previously expressed opinions as being those then ...
... assemblies I have unhesitatingly announced it ; and the last public declaration which I have made , and that but a short time before the late presidential election , I re- ferred to my previously expressed opinions as being those then ...
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... assembly of two thousand persons chose Daniel Shays for their leader , and demanded that the collection of debts should be suspended , and that the legislature should authorize an emis- sion of paper money for general circulation . They ...
... assembly of two thousand persons chose Daniel Shays for their leader , and demanded that the collection of debts should be suspended , and that the legislature should authorize an emis- sion of paper money for general circulation . They ...
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Página 13 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Página 23 - But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Página 23 - ... remember especially that for the efficient management of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable. Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian.
Página 23 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the Power of the People and to usurp for themselves the reins of Government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Página 19 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Página 23 - With such powerful and obvious motives to union, affecting all parts of our country, while experience shall not have demonstrated its impracticability, there will always be reason to distrust the patriotism of those who in any quarter may endeavor to weaken its bands.
Página 23 - Let it simply be asked. Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Página 14 - 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.
Página 17 - ... 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 herein before directed to be taken.
Página 16 - Court; 10 To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; 11 To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water...