The American's Own Book: Containing the Declaration of Independence, with the Lives of the Signers : the Constitution of the United States : the Inaugural Addresses and First Annual Messages of All the Presidents from Washington to Pierce : the Farewell Addresses of George Washington and Andrew Jackson : with a Portrait and Life of Each President of the United States, to the Present TimeLeavitt & Allen, 1855 - 496 pages |
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... lative provisions respecting them which may from time to time be necessary . They are preserved in such con- dition , as well the vessels as whatever belongs to them , as to be at all times ready for sea on a short warning . Two others ...
... lative provisions respecting them which may from time to time be necessary . They are preserved in such con- dition , as well the vessels as whatever belongs to them , as to be at all times ready for sea on a short warning . Two others ...
Page 214
... lative opinions , or in different views of administrative policy , are in their nature transitory . Those which are founded on geographical divisions , adverse interests of soil , climate , and modes of domestic life , are more per ...
... lative opinions , or in different views of administrative policy , are in their nature transitory . Those which are founded on geographical divisions , adverse interests of soil , climate , and modes of domestic life , are more per ...
Page 227
... lative provision to the same end . The reports of the various officers at the head of the administrative branches of the military service , connected with the quartering , clothing , subsistence , health and pay of the army , exhibit ...
... lative provision to the same end . The reports of the various officers at the head of the administrative branches of the military service , connected with the quartering , clothing , subsistence , health and pay of the army , exhibit ...
Page 240
... lative weight to the considerations presented by him as persuasive to the measure , and in recommending it to your deliberations , I am happy to have the influence of his high authority in aid of the undoubting convictions of my own ...
... lative weight to the considerations presented by him as persuasive to the measure , and in recommending it to your deliberations , I am happy to have the influence of his high authority in aid of the undoubting convictions of my own ...
Page 345
... lative body , by refusing to them his assent . So a similar power has necessarily resulted from that instrument to the judiciary , and yet the judiciary forms no part of the legislature . There is , it is true , this difference between ...
... lative body , by refusing to them his assent . So a similar power has necessarily resulted from that instrument to the judiciary , and yet the judiciary forms no part of the legislature . There is , it is true , this difference between ...
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Page 168 - ... with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellowcitizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned.
Page 115 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Page 146 - 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. 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.
Page 116 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may, in their judgment, require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 143 - To the efficacy and permanency of your union, a government for the whole is indispensable. — No alliances, however strict, between the parts, can be an adequate substitute ; they must inevitably experience the infractions and interruptions, which all alliances, in all times, have experienced.
Page 129 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 150 - Against the insidious wiles of foreign influence (I conjure you to believe me, fellow-citizens), the jealousy of a free people ought to be constantly awake; since history and experience prove that foreign influence is one of the most baneful foes of republican government.
Page 151 - ... it is folly in one nation to look for disinterested favors from another; that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character...
Page 145 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.
Page 145 - The disorders and miseries which result, gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual ; and, sooner or later, the chief of some prevailing faction, more able or more fortunate than his competitors, turns this disposition to the purposes of his own elevation on the ruins of public liberty.