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The Democrats also denounced " government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal judges , in contempt of the law of the States and rights of citizens , become at once legislators , judges , and ...
The Democrats also denounced " government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous form of oppression by which Federal judges , in contempt of the law of the States and rights of citizens , become at once legislators , judges , and ...
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Page 325 - The Constitution is either a superior, paramount law, unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative acts, and, like other acts, is alterable, when the legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true, then a legislative act contrary to the Constitution is not law ; if the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power, in its own nature illimitable...
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Page 43 - They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all ; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere.
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Page 249 - States ; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
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Page 172 - Under this article of the Constitution it rests with Congress to decide what government is the established one in a State.
Page 11 - ... the consent of the governed; that whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute a new government, laying its foundations on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.
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| Title | American Politics: The American Republic and Its Government American Politics |
| Author | James Albert Woodburn |
| Edition | 2 |
| Publisher | G.P. Putnam's sons, 1916 |
| Original from | the University of California |
| Digitized | 26 Oct 2007 |
| Length | 398 pages |
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