American Government and PoliticsMacmillan, 1910 - 772 pages |
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... fact not mentioned in most of the constitutions of the revolutionary period . " In New England the unit of local administration was the town , which was governed by a meeting of the electors , who chose the town officers , levied taxes ...
... fact not mentioned in most of the constitutions of the revolutionary period . " In New England the unit of local administration was the town , which was governed by a meeting of the electors , who chose the town officers , levied taxes ...
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... fact , Catholics and Jews were quite frequently disfranchised . In Virginia the Established Church sought to suppress dissent , and as late as 1774 James Madison wrote : " that diabolical , hell - conceived principle of persecution ...
... fact , Catholics and Jews were quite frequently disfranchised . In Virginia the Established Church sought to suppress dissent , and as late as 1774 James Madison wrote : " that diabolical , hell - conceived principle of persecution ...
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... fact , had even resisted the policy of the mother country , for within the ranks of the conservatives were large numbers of Loyalists who had remained in America , and , as was to have been expected , cherished a bitter feeling against ...
... fact , had even resisted the policy of the mother country , for within the ranks of the conservatives were large numbers of Loyalists who had remained in America , and , as was to have been expected , cherished a bitter feeling against ...
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... fact , almost all of them expressly limited their representatives to a mere revision of the Articles of Confederation . " For example , Connecticut authorized her delegates to represent and confer for the purpose mentioned in the ...
... fact , almost all of them expressly limited their representatives to a mere revision of the Articles of Confederation . " For example , Connecticut authorized her delegates to represent and confer for the purpose mentioned in the ...
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... fact that at one time so many men skilled in statecraft could be found on the very frontiers of civilization among a population numbering about four million whites . It is no less a cause for admiration that their instrument of ...
... fact that at one time so many men skilled in statecraft could be found on the very frontiers of civilization among a population numbering about four million whites . It is no less a cause for admiration that their instrument of ...
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Page 706 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 327 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 296 - ... the constitution ought to be preferred to the statute, the intention of the people to the intention of their agents. Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both; and that where the will of the legislature declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people declared...
Page 301 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 149 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 48 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 300 - I do not forget the position assumed by some, that constitutional questions are to be decided by the Supreme Court; nor do I deny that such decisions must be binding, in any case, upon the parties to a suit, as to the object of that suit, while they are also entitled to very high respect and consideration in all parallel cases by all other departments of the government.
Page 61 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Page 710 - ... multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner.
Page 64 - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?