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... received however , the votes of but three states , Virginia , Massachusetts and Pennsylvania . But upon maturer reflection , the Convention decided that the states could be kept from violating the constitu- tion and treaties and laws of ...
... received however , the votes of but three states , Virginia , Massachusetts and Pennsylvania . But upon maturer reflection , the Convention decided that the states could be kept from violating the constitu- tion and treaties and laws of ...
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... overshadowing influence of Washington . That probably decided the result . On the final vote , out of a total of one hundred and sixty - eight votes , the constitution received a majority of ten . HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES . 59.
... overshadowing influence of Washington . That probably decided the result . On the final vote , out of a total of one hundred and sixty - eight votes , the constitution received a majority of ten . HISTORY OF POLITICAL PARTIES . 59.
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... received a majority of ten . change of ten votes in Massachusetts , two in New York , and six in Virginia would have prevented the adoption of the constitution in each of those states . What the final outcome would have been in such an ...
... received a majority of ten . change of ten votes in Massachusetts , two in New York , and six in Virginia would have prevented the adoption of the constitution in each of those states . What the final outcome would have been in such an ...
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... received the active and steady co - operation of all that was left in America of attachment to the mother country , as well as of the moneyed interest , which ever turns to strong government , as surely as the needle to the pole ...
... received the active and steady co - operation of all that was left in America of attachment to the mother country , as well as of the moneyed interest , which ever turns to strong government , as surely as the needle to the pole ...
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... received his visitor with a dignified bow , while his hands were so disposed as to indicate that his salutation was not to be accompanied with shaking hands . This ceremony never occurred in these visits even with his most near friends ...
... received his visitor with a dignified bow , while his hands were so disposed as to indicate that his salutation was not to be accompanied with shaking hands . This ceremony never occurred in these visits even with his most near friends ...
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Página 286 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Página 226 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another ; that it must pay with a portion of its independence, for whatever it may accept under that character...
Página 283 - States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact; as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact; and that, in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers not granted by the said compact, the States, who are parties thereto, have the right and are in duty bound to interpose for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits the authorities,...
Página 375 - The day that France takes possession of New Orleans, fixes the sentence which is to restrain her forever within her low-water mark. It seals the union of two nations, who, in conjunction, can maintain exclusive possession of the ocean. From that moment, we must marry ourselves to the British fleet and nation.
Página 143 - My own affections have been deeply wounded by some of the martyrs to this cause, but rather than it should have failed I would have seen half the earth desolated; were there but an Adam and an Eve left in every country, and left free, it would be better than as it now is.
Página 107 - to lay taxes for the purpose of providing for the general welfare;" for the laying of taxes is the power, and the general welfare the purpose for which the power is to be exercised. Congress are not to lay taxes ad libitum, for any purpose they please; but only to pay the debts, or provide for the welfare, of the Union. In like manner, they are not to do anything they please, to provide for the general welfare, but only to lay taxes for that purpose.
Página 26 - appointment of commissioners to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose, to the United States in Congress assembled, as when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislature of every State, will effectually provide for the same.
Página 397 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it, and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other States.
Página 195 - By rejecting the posts, we light the savage fires, we bind the victims. This day we undertake to render account to the widows and orphans whom our decision will make, to the wretches that will be roasted at the stake, to our country, and I do not deem it too serious to say, to conscience and to God.
Página 375 - There is on the globe one single spot, the possessor of which is our natural and habitual enemy. It is New Orleans, through which the produce of threeeighths of our territory must pass to market...