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... interference by federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions , and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous ...
... interference by federal authorities in local affairs as a violation of the Constitution of the United States and a crime against free institutions , and we especially object to government by injunction as a new and highly dangerous ...
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Page 700 - 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 321 - 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 159 - 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.
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Page 276 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Bibliographic information
| Title | American Government and Politics |
| Author | Charles Austin Beard |
| Editor | Charles Austin Beard |
| Edition | reprint |
| Publisher | Macmillan, 1910 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | 23 Jan 2008 |
| Length | 772 pages |
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