The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846. Jackson's administration. Annexation of TexasCallaghan, 1879 - Constitutional history |
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Hermann Von Holst. source of alarm was the conduct of the people who had taken a principal part in the agitation of the election . As to Jackson personally , even Webster still harbored the hope that the president had intended only to ...
Hermann Von Holst. source of alarm was the conduct of the people who had taken a principal part in the agitation of the election . As to Jackson personally , even Webster still harbored the hope that the president had intended only to ...
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... taken together . Even during the colonial period , all public positions had had a peculiar charm for the people . But it was only with the growing violence of independent party life that this inclination assumed a morbid cast , and it ...
... taken together . Even during the colonial period , all public positions had had a peculiar charm for the people . But it was only with the growing violence of independent party life that this inclination assumed a morbid cast , and it ...
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... taken ill , is not marked with more anxiety by the attending physicians , than by those who desire to succeed them , though with very opposite feelings . " Speeches of H. Clay , I , p . 230 . " I concur most heartily , sir , in the ...
... taken ill , is not marked with more anxiety by the attending physicians , than by those who desire to succeed them , though with very opposite feelings . " Speeches of H. Clay , I , p . 230 . " I concur most heartily , sir , in the ...
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... taken a great ' Quincy , Mem . of J. Q. Adams , p . 147 . Ibid . , p . 157 . ? Hammond writes : " John Quincy Adams attempted to repudiate it [ the maxim : to the victors belong the spoils ] , and was soon politically prostrated ...
... taken a great ' Quincy , Mem . of J. Q. Adams , p . 147 . Ibid . , p . 157 . ? Hammond writes : " John Quincy Adams attempted to repudiate it [ the maxim : to the victors belong the spoils ] , and was soon politically prostrated ...
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... taken an ominous step , in- asmuch as it had limited the time of holding whole classes of important offices , especially those to the incumbents of which was confided the collec- tion and disbursement of government money , to four years ...
... taken an ominous step , in- asmuch as it had limited the time of holding whole classes of important offices , especially those to the incumbents of which was confided the collec- tion and disbursement of government money , to four years ...
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Page 48 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Page 245 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Page 49 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Page 263 - Representatives, to take into consideration what disposition should be made of petitions and memorials for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, in the District of Columbia, and report thereon.
Page 50 - ... every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful...
Page 595 - I recommend that an act be passed authorizing reprisals, and the use of the naval force of the United States by the Executive against Mexico to enforce them, in the event of a refusal by the Mexican Government to come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us upon another demand thereof made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico.
Page 278 - Congress, it being expressly declared "that the Constitution of the United States shall be the supreme law of the land, and the judges of every state shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 68 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 254 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall— (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Page 48 - ... would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone, without which the power given would be nugatory, would have been to deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of...