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... Labor and Capital - Working People becoming Educated and more Independent - The Government can Aid by means of Good Laws - Women the worst Paid - There should be no Resort to Force by either Labor or Capital , 451-453 THE JEWS . Much ...
... Labor and Capital - Working People becoming Educated and more Independent - The Government can Aid by means of Good Laws - Women the worst Paid - There should be no Resort to Force by either Labor or Capital , 451-453 THE JEWS . Much ...
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... labor in any State under the laws thereof , escaping to another , shall , in consequence of any law or reg- ulation therein , be discharged from such service or labor , but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such ...
... labor in any State under the laws thereof , escaping to another , shall , in consequence of any law or reg- ulation therein , be discharged from such service or labor , but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such ...
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... labor , but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due . " To whom was this clause directed ? To individuals or to States ? It expressly provides that the " person " held to service or labor ...
... labor , but shall be delivered up on the claim of the party to whom such service or labor may be due . " To whom was this clause directed ? To individuals or to States ? It expressly provides that the " person " held to service or labor ...
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... labor . A person allowed to pursue only one trade or calling , and only in one locality of the country , would not be , in the strict sense of the term , in a condition of slavery , but probably no one would deny that he would be in a ...
... labor . A person allowed to pursue only one trade or calling , and only in one locality of the country , would not be , in the strict sense of the term , in a condition of slavery , but probably no one would deny that he would be in a ...
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... labor may be due . " And he holds that : " Under that clause of the section Congress became clothed with the appropriate authority to legislate for its enforcement . " Now let us look at the 13th and 14th Amendments in the light of that ...
... labor may be due . " And he holds that : " Under that clause of the section Congress became clothed with the appropriate authority to legislate for its enforcement . " Now let us look at the 13th and 14th Amendments in the light of that ...
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Page 283 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 36 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in the manner most beneficial to the people. Let the end be legitimate, let it be within the scope of the...
Page 174 - There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
Page 594 - Thus saith the LORD God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.
Page 598 - Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them fringes in the borders of their garments throughout their generations, and that they put upon the fringe of the borders a ribband of blue : and it shall be unto you for a fringe, that ye may look upon it, and remember all the commandments of the Lord, and do them...
Page 1 - ABOU BEN ADHEM (may his tribe increase!) Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, And saw within the moonlight in his room, Making it rich and like a lily in bloom, An angel writing in a book of gold: Exceeding peace had made Ben Adhem bold, And to the presence in the room he said, "What writest thou?
Page 594 - For Moses had said, Consecrate yourselves today to the LORD, even every man upon his son, and upon his brother; that he may bestow upon you a blessing this day.
Page 247 - Between the acting of a dreadful thing And the first motion, all the interim is Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream: The genius, and the mortal instruments, Are then in council; and the state of man, Like to a little kingdom, suffers then The nature of an insurrection.
Page 600 - ... know for a certainty that the LORD your God will no more drive out any of these nations from before you; but they shall be snares and traps unto you, and scourges in your sides, and thorns in your eyes, until ye perish from off this good land which the LORD your God hath given you.