The Lost Principle: Or, The Sectional Equilibrium: how it was Created--how Destroyed--how it May be RestoredJ. Woodhouse, 1860 - 266 σελίδες |
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... reason there must have been . " It is my purpose , in the following pages , to solve this ques- tion of constitutional history - to ascertain the reason that ope- rated on the Convention which constructed the government under which we ...
... reason there must have been . " It is my purpose , in the following pages , to solve this ques- tion of constitutional history - to ascertain the reason that ope- rated on the Convention which constructed the government under which we ...
Σελίδα 11
... reason , as I conceive , than that its originator would have employed it as an imperfect sub- stitute for that wise and healing principle . An Equilibrium , properly so called , enters into the govern- ment and is its living principle ...
... reason , as I conceive , than that its originator would have employed it as an imperfect sub- stitute for that wise and healing principle . An Equilibrium , properly so called , enters into the govern- ment and is its living principle ...
Σελίδα 13
... reason , and in nothing does it appear more than in this . Any blow dealt at slavery by the central government , outside of that State , is certainly a wrong done to South Carolina , but to South Carolina considered as a portion of the ...
... reason , and in nothing does it appear more than in this . Any blow dealt at slavery by the central government , outside of that State , is certainly a wrong done to South Carolina , but to South Carolina considered as a portion of the ...
Σελίδα 14
... reason for giving their owners the security of full representation for them . But the South , as usual , yielded to Northern exorbi- tance , and agreed that five slaves should count only 14 THE SECTIONAL EQUILIBRIUM .
... reason for giving their owners the security of full representation for them . But the South , as usual , yielded to Northern exorbi- tance , and agreed that five slaves should count only 14 THE SECTIONAL EQUILIBRIUM .
Σελίδα 18
... reason and justice , political institutions for themselves and their posterity . But this is only the idolatry of admiration . If we draw near , and through the medium by * Luther Martin , in his address to the Maryland Legislature ...
... reason and justice , political institutions for themselves and their posterity . But this is only the idolatry of admiration . If we draw near , and through the medium by * Luther Martin , in his address to the Maryland Legislature ...
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Σελίδα 17 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff and is limited thereby; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Σελίδα 249 - 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.
Σελίδα 250 - ... delegate ; and the delegates of a state or any of them, at his or their request, shall be furnished with a transcript of the said journal, except such...
Σελίδα 11 - In order to justify a resort to revolutionary resistance, the federal government must be guilty of "a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise" of powers not granted by the Constitution.
Σελίδα 245 - ... no right of any denomination can be cancelled abridged restrained or modified by the Congress by the Senate or House of Representatives acting in any Capacity by the President or any Department or Officer of the United States...
Σελίδα 197 - An unrestrained intercourse between the States themselves will advance the trade of each, by an interchange of their respective productions, not only for the supply of reciprocal wants at home, but for exportation to foreign markets.
Σελίδα 12 - ... 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...
Σελίδα 247 - That the legislative and executive powers of the State should be separate and distinct from the judiciary; and that the members of the two first may be restrained from oppression, by feeling and participating the burdens of the people, they should, at fixed periods, be reduced to a private station...
Σελίδα 260 - February 21, 1787, and was ratified by the conventions of the several states, as follows, viz.: By convention of Delaware...
Σελίδα 213 - The migration or importation of such persons as the several states, now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the legislature prior to the year 1800; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such migration or importation, at a rate not exceeding the average of the duties laid on imports.