Annual Messages, Veto Messages, Protests, &cE.J. Coale, 1835 - 272 pages |
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... compacts cannot be obtained from communities like ours , it need not be anticipated else- where ; and the cause in which there has been so much martyrdom , and from which so much was expected by the friends of liberty , may be abandoned ...
... compacts cannot be obtained from communities like ours , it need not be anticipated else- where ; and the cause in which there has been so much martyrdom , and from which so much was expected by the friends of liberty , may be abandoned ...
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... compact , and of its having the support and approbation of a majority of the people ; on which account , it is at least entitled to a fair experiment . The suggestions to which I have alluded refer to a forced continuance of the ...
... compact , and of its having the support and approbation of a majority of the people ; on which account , it is at least entitled to a fair experiment . The suggestions to which I have alluded refer to a forced continuance of the ...
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... compact which made them members of our confederacy . With Georgia there is an express contract ; with the new states , an implied one , of equal obligation . Why , in authorizing Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Missouri , Mississippi , and ...
... compact which made them members of our confederacy . With Georgia there is an express contract ; with the new states , an implied one , of equal obligation . Why , in authorizing Ohio , Indiana , Illinois , Missouri , Mississippi , and ...
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... compacts . The advantages of accurate surveys and undoubted titles , now secured to purchasers , seem to forbid the abolition of the present system , because none can be substituted which will more perfectly accomplish these important ...
... compacts . The advantages of accurate surveys and undoubted titles , now secured to purchasers , seem to forbid the abolition of the present system , because none can be substituted which will more perfectly accomplish these important ...
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... compact in express terms declares , that the laws of the United States , its constitution , and treaties made under it , are the supreme law of the land : and , for greater caution , adds , " that the judges in every state shall be ...
... compact in express terms declares , that the laws of the United States , its constitution , and treaties made under it , are the supreme law of the land : and , for greater caution , adds , " that the judges in every state shall be ...
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Page 192 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 249 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 191 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation or federal alliance of the said states, Virginia inclusive, according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure, and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose, and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page 108 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
Page 126 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Page 105 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Page 192 - The legislatures of those districts, or new states, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Page 188 - We are convinced policy and justice require that a country unsettled at the commencement of this war, claimed by the British crown, and ceded to it by the treaty of Paris, if wrested from the common enemy by the blood and treasure of the thirteen states, should be considered as a common property, subject to be parcelled out by Congress into free, convenient and independent governments, in such manner and at such times as the wisdom of that assembly shall hereafter direct.
Page 107 - ... for all imposts must be equal. It is no answer to repeat that an unconstitutional law is no law, so long as the question of its legality is to be decided by the State itself; for every law operating injuriously upon any local interest will be perhaps thought, and certainly represented, as unconstitutional, and, as has been shown, there is no appeal.
Page 235 - There is danger that a president and directors would then be able to elect themselves from year to year, and without responsibility or control manage the whole concerns of the bank during the existence of its charter.