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... cause of civil liberty , the author consented to write the following chapters . In them he has endeavered to indicate , but with neces sary brevity , the attempts of the Federalists , during the administra- tions of Washington and the ...
... cause of civil liberty , the author consented to write the following chapters . In them he has endeavered to indicate , but with neces sary brevity , the attempts of the Federalists , during the administra- tions of Washington and the ...
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... polit- ical information , or contribute toward the advancement of the Re- publican cause , the aim and purpose of the author will have been answered . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. The Constitution - Diverse Opinions of iv . PREFACE .
... polit- ical information , or contribute toward the advancement of the Re- publican cause , the aim and purpose of the author will have been answered . CONTENTS . CHAPTER I. The Constitution - Diverse Opinions of iv . PREFACE .
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... causes once tried should not be reëxaminable upon ap- peal , otherwise than according to the course of the com- mon law ; and that powers not expressly delegated to the general government should be reserved to the states re- spectively ...
... causes once tried should not be reëxaminable upon ap- peal , otherwise than according to the course of the com- mon law ; and that powers not expressly delegated to the general government should be reserved to the states re- spectively ...
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... cause or procure to be written , printed , uttered , or published , or shall know- ingly and willingly assist or aid in writing , printing , utter- ing , or publishing any false , scandalous , and malicious writing or writings against ...
... cause or procure to be written , printed , uttered , or published , or shall know- ingly and willingly assist or aid in writing , printing , utter- ing , or publishing any false , scandalous , and malicious writing or writings against ...
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... cause , to give in evidence , in his defense , the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel . And the jury who shall try the cause shall have a right to determine the law and the fact , under the direction of ...
... cause , to give in evidence , in his defense , the truth of the matter contained in the publication charged as a libel . And the jury who shall try the cause shall have a right to determine the law and the fact , under the direction of ...
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Page 115 - It is impossible that the allied powers should extend their political system to any portion of either continent, without endangering our peace and happiness...
Page 33 - Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then, be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the forms of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.
Page 228 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 33 - Let us restore to social intercourse that harmony and affection without which liberty and even life itself are but dreary things. And let us reflect that, having banished from our land that religious intolerance under which mankind so long bled and suffered, we have yet gained little if we countenance a political intolerance as despotic, as wicked, and capable of as bitter and bloody persecutions.
Page 415 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Page 421 - March 6, 1820,) which, being inconsistent with the principle of non-intervention by Congress with slavery in the States and Territories — as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the Compromise Measures — is hereby declared inoperative and void; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their...
Page 99 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted. Provided always that any person escaping into the same from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 34 - Still one thing more, fellowcitizens — a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 197 - ... 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, rights, and...
Page 33 - Government is not strong enough; but would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm on the theoretic and visionary fear that this Government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself? I trust not. I believe this, on the contrary, the strongest Government on earth.