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... Portsmouth , N. H. 388 to 415 on the conduct of 424 . · correspondence of , with Mr. Gowen 884 " Ireland and the South " Internal improvement , & c . , opinion of Mr. Van Buren on bill for 358 · 354 555 , 556 • · · - · 642 · 673 · · 10 ...
... Portsmouth , N. H. 388 to 415 on the conduct of 424 . · correspondence of , with Mr. Gowen 884 " Ireland and the South " Internal improvement , & c . , opinion of Mr. Van Buren on bill for 358 · 354 555 , 556 • · · - · 642 · 673 · · 10 ...
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... Portsmouth , N. H. , correspondence in relation to the case of Mexico , intelligence from Mails , the , on Monroe , President , and Gen. Jackson correspondence between , in 1818 , on the conspiracy against the charac- ter of · · 529 ...
... Portsmouth , N. H. , correspondence in relation to the case of Mexico , intelligence from Mails , the , on Monroe , President , and Gen. Jackson correspondence between , in 1818 , on the conspiracy against the charac- ter of · · 529 ...
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... Portsmouth , ( N. H. , ) Herald , remarks on article in the Patchett , Gen. , letter of Senate , the , on the Presidency of 587 866 889 attacks on the independence of the President and 617 823 Pendleton , ( S. C. , ) Messenger , corres ...
... Portsmouth , ( N. H. , ) Herald , remarks on article in the Patchett , Gen. , letter of Senate , the , on the Presidency of 587 866 889 attacks on the independence of the President and 617 823 Pendleton , ( S. C. , ) Messenger , corres ...
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... Portsmouth , N. H. ❤ ❤ - - passage of the bill to recharter the refusal of the House of Representa- tives to lay the Senate bill on the table notice of debate in the Senate on in the House · 287 anxiety of the friends of , on the new ...
... Portsmouth , N. H. ❤ ❤ - - passage of the bill to recharter the refusal of the House of Representa- tives to lay the Senate bill on the table notice of debate in the Senate on in the House · 287 anxiety of the friends of , on the new ...
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... Portsmouth , England , March 21st , arrived at . New York on the 19th inst . , with London papers to March 20th . rangement that has been made through Leo- pold , and involved really no want of fidelity to public professions and ...
... Portsmouth , England , March 21st , arrived at . New York on the 19th inst . , with London papers to March 20th . rangement that has been made through Leo- pold , and involved really no want of fidelity to public professions and ...
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Page 117 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking in a free country should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding in the exercise of the powers of one department to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.
Page 118 - 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.
Page 177 - ... requisite for its immediate accommodation in relation to the convenient transacting of its business, and such as shall have been bona fide mortgaged to it by way of security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales, upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts.
Page 300 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page 117 - Resolved, that the several states composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their General Government ; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States...
Page 117 - But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any time yield.
Page 322 - The recent demonstration of public sentiment inscribes on the list of executive duties, in characters too legible to be overlooked, the task of reform, which will require particularly the correction of those abuses that have brought the patronage of the federal government into conflict with the freedom of elections...
Page 117 - ... and under our own eyes. To preserve them must be as necessary as to institute them. If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers, be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the constitution designates.
Page 221 - ... the tariff which shall produce a reduction of our revenue to the wants of the Government and an adjustment of the duties on imports with a view to equal justice in relation to all our national interests and to the counteraction of foreign policy so far as it may be injurious to those interests, is deemed to be one of the principal objects which demand the consideration of the present Congress.
Page 118 - It appears to your committee to be a plain principle, founded in common sense, illustrated by common practice, and essential to the nature of compacts; that where resort can be had to no tribunal superior to the authority of the parties, the parties themselves must be the rightful judges in the last resort, whether the bargain made, has been pursued or violated.