The Works of Daniel Webster ...Little, Brown, 1853 |
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... opinion . They thought the peo- ple had such a right . By the fundamental principle of popular and elective governments , all office is in the free gift of the peo- ple . They may grant or they may withhold it at pleasure ; and if it be ...
... opinion . They thought the peo- ple had such a right . By the fundamental principle of popular and elective governments , all office is in the free gift of the peo- ple . They may grant or they may withhold it at pleasure ; and if it be ...
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... opinion on this , without first seeing the construction of both , and considering how they are formed and arranged with respect to their mutual relation ? I cannot imagine , therefore , how the member from Worcester should think it ...
... opinion on this , without first seeing the construction of both , and considering how they are formed and arranged with respect to their mutual relation ? I cannot imagine , therefore , how the member from Worcester should think it ...
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... opinion to sustain their measures , and they undoubtedly pos- sess great means of influencing public opinion . With all the guards which can be raised by constitutional provisions , we are not likely to be too well secured against cases ...
... opinion to sustain their measures , and they undoubtedly pos- sess great means of influencing public opinion . With all the guards which can be raised by constitutional provisions , we are not likely to be too well secured against cases ...
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... opinion , a just and proper one . I will beg leave to ask , Sir , whether property may not be said to deserve this portion of respect and power in the govern- ment ? It pays , at this moment , I think , five sixths of all the public ...
... opinion , a just and proper one . I will beg leave to ask , Sir , whether property may not be said to deserve this portion of respect and power in the govern- ment ? It pays , at this moment , I think , five sixths of all the public ...
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... opinion in this re- spect on fitness and expediency , and the sentiments of the people ; not on absolute right . The town corporations , simply as such , cannot be said to have any right to representation ; ex- cept so far as the ...
... opinion in this re- spect on fitness and expediency , and the sentiments of the people ; not on absolute right . The town corporations , simply as such , cannot be said to have any right to representation ; ex- cept so far as the ...
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341 ページ - It is to that Union we owe our safety at home and our consideration and dignity abroad. It is to that Union that we are chiefly indebted for whatever makes us most proud of our country. That Union we reached only by the discipline of our virtues in the severe school of adversity. It had its origin in the necessities of disordered finance, prostrate commerce, and ruined credit.
455 ページ - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
200 ページ - With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers. The political system of the allied powers is essentially different in this respect from that of America...
477 ページ - We, the people of the United States, do ordain and establish this constitution.
255 ページ - September last, shall be disposed of for the common benefit of the United States and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom and independence as the other States...
485 ページ - If the general legislature should at any time overleap their limits, the judicial department is a constitutional check. If the United States go beyond their powers, if they make a law which the constitution does not authorize, it is void, and the judicial power, the national judges, who, to secure their impartiality, are to be made independent, will declare it to be void.
498 ページ - To grant patents for useful inventions. "To secure to authors exclusive rights for a certain time. "To establish public institutions, rewards, and immunities for the promotion of agriculture, commerce, trades, and manufactures.
270 ページ - When the mariner has been tossed for many days in thick weather, and on an unknown sea, he naturally avails himself of the first pause in the storm, the earliest glance of the sun, to take his latitude, and ascertain how far the elements have driven him from his true course.
205 ページ - I look on the message of December, 1823, as forming a bright page in our history. I will help neither to erase it nor to tear it out ; nor shall it be by any act of mine blurred or blotted. It did honor to the sagacity of the Government, and I will not diminish that honor.
200 ページ - This difference proceeds from that which exists in their respective Governments; and to the defence of our own, which has been achieved by the loss of so much blood and treasure, and matured by the wisdom of their most enlightened citizens, and under which we have enjoyed unexampled felicity, this whole nation is devoted.