The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution: As Recommended by the General Convention at Philadelphia in 1787. Together with the Journal of the Federal Convention, Luther Martin's Letter, Yates's Minutes, Congressional Opinions, Virginia and Kentucky Resolutions of '98-'99, and Other Illustrations of the Constitution, 第 4 巻J. B. Lippincott & Company, 1836 |
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... object to it . Mr. IREDELL . Mr. Chairman , the gentleman who spoke last mistook what the gentleman from Wilmington and myself have said . In my opinion , there ought to be a line drawn , as accurately as possible , between the power ...
... object to it . Mr. IREDELL . Mr. Chairman , the gentleman who spoke last mistook what the gentleman from Wilmington and myself have said . In my opinion , there ought to be a line drawn , as accurately as possible , between the power ...
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... object of our mission ? " To decide upon the most effectual means of removing the defects of our federal union . " This is a general , discretional authority to propose any alteration they thought proper or necessary . Were not the ...
... object of our mission ? " To decide upon the most effectual means of removing the defects of our federal union . " This is a general , discretional authority to propose any alteration they thought proper or necessary . Were not the ...
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... object of the deputation . When we investigate this system candidly and accurately , and compare all its parts with ... objects of the union are , 1st , to protect us against foreign invasion ; 2d , to defend us against internal commo ...
... object of the deputation . When we investigate this system candidly and accurately , and compare all its parts with ... objects of the union are , 1st , to protect us against foreign invasion ; 2d , to defend us against internal commo ...
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... object of the federal union is , to promote the agriculture and manufactures of the states - objects in which we are so nearly concerned . Commerce , sir , is the nurse of both . The merchant furnishes the planter with such articles as ...
... object of the federal union is , to promote the agriculture and manufactures of the states - objects in which we are so nearly concerned . Commerce , sir , is the nurse of both . The merchant furnishes the planter with such articles as ...
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... object , the law passes by a bare majority ; and if he objects , it passes by two thirds . His power extends only to cause it to be reconsidered , which secures a greater probability of its being good . As to his power with respect to ...
... object , the law passes by a bare majority ; and if he objects , it passes by two thirds . His power extends only to cause it to be reconsidered , which secures a greater probability of its being good . As to his power with respect to ...
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512 ページ - 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.
507 ページ - ... 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, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
570 ページ - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
484 ページ - It is agreed that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value in sterling money of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted.
242 ページ - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
509 ページ - The first section of the third article of the constitution declares that "the judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and such inferior courts as congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.
587 ページ - The Constitution of the United States, ihen, forms a government, not a league ; and whether it be formed by compact between the states, or in any other manner, its character is the same. It is a government in which all the people are represented, which operates directly on the people individually, not upon the states.
508 ページ - The states then being the parties to the constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity, that there can be no tribunal above their authority, to decide in the last resort, whether the compact made by them be violated; and consequently that as the parties to it, they must themselves decide in the last resort, such questions as may be of sufficient magnitude to require their interposition.
241 ページ - That elections of members to serve as representatives of the people, in assembly, ought to be free; and that all men, having sufficient evidence of permanent common interest with, and attachment to, the community, have the right of suffrage, and cannot be taxed or deprived of their property for public uses without their own consent, or that of their representatives so elected, nor bound by any law to which they have not, in like manner, assented, for the public good.
583 ページ - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one State, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorised by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.