Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress, Volume 1; Volume 6; Volume 50Gales & Seaton, 1830 |
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... established for themselves a civil government ; they are entering upon the arts of peace , agriculture , commerce , and mechanics ; they know the obligations of law ; and in regard to popu- lation , instead of its approaching to ...
... established for themselves a civil government ; they are entering upon the arts of peace , agriculture , commerce , and mechanics ; they know the obligations of law ; and in regard to popu- lation , instead of its approaching to ...
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... established , as far as I am informed , as mat - ventions , of more recent existence , have gone a whole ter of express written constitutional law , in this ordinance bar's length beyond it . The learned doctors of Colleton of 1787. And ...
... established , as far as I am informed , as mat - ventions , of more recent existence , have gone a whole ter of express written constitutional law , in this ordinance bar's length beyond it . The learned doctors of Colleton of 1787. And ...
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... established for the public bencfit , and that , when they cease to answer the ends of their existence , they may be changed . But I do not un- derstand the doctrine now contended for to be that which , for the sake of distinctness , we ...
... established for the public bencfit , and that , when they cease to answer the ends of their existence , they may be changed . But I do not un- derstand the doctrine now contended for to be that which , for the sake of distinctness , we ...
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... established to promote the and yet bound to obey all . This absurdity ( for it seems interest of the manufacturers of cotton , to the manifest and no less ) arises from a misconception as to the origin of this admitted injury of the ...
... established to promote the and yet bound to obey all . This absurdity ( for it seems interest of the manufacturers of cotton , to the manifest and no less ) arises from a misconception as to the origin of this admitted injury of the ...
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... established embargo system , under the conscientious opinions which it , and have hitherto supported it , for the ... establish a Go- shall not readily believe that he was ever of opinion that vernment that should not be obliged to act ...
... established embargo system , under the conscientious opinions which it , and have hitherto supported it , for the ... establish a Go- shall not readily believe that he was ever of opinion that vernment that should not be obliged to act ...
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Page 73 - ... 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,...
Page 148 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled, men, will be enabled to subvert the power of the people, and to usurp for themselves the reins of government ; destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
Page 57 - 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 181 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as 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...
Page 80 - Liberty first and Union afterwards'; but everywhere, spread all over in characters of living light, blazing on all its ample folds, as they float over the sea and over the land, and in every wind under the whole heavens, that other sentiment, dear to every true American heart, Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable...
Page 164 - The inhabitants of our Western country have lately had a useful lesson on this head. They...
Page 148 - In contemplating the causes which may disturb our union, it occurs as matter of serious concern that any ground should have been furnished for characterizing parties, by geographical discriminations — Northern and Southern; Atlantic and Western; whence designing men may endeavor to excite a belief that there is a real difference of local interests and views.
Page 72 - State or neighborhood; when I refuse for any such cause, or for any cause, the homage due to American talent, to elevated patriotism, to sincere devotion to liberty and the country; or, if I see an uncommon endowment of heaven — if I see extraordinary capacity and virtue in any son of the South — and if, moved by local prejudice, or gangrened by State jealousy, I get up here to abate the tithe of a hair from his just character and just fame, may my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth!
Page 74 - It is, sir, the people's constitution, the people's Government; made for the people; made by the people; and answerable to the people. The people of the United States have declared that this constitution shall be the supreme law. We must either admit the proposition, or dispute their authority. The States are, unquestionably, sovereign, so far as their sovereignty is not affected by this supreme law. But the State Legislatures, as political bodies, however sovereign, are yet not sovereign over the...
Page 57 - Government is the exclusive judge of the extent of the powers delegated to it, stop nothing [short] of despotism — since the discretion of those who administer the government, and not the Constitution, would be the measure of their powers: That the several states who formed that instrument being sovereign and independent, have the unquestionable right to judge of the infraction ; and, That a Nullification by those sovereignties, of all unauthorized acts done under color of that instrument is the...