A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 11Bureau of national literature, 1909 |
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... Constitution . He is authorized , however , to consult the heads of Departments . Washington consulted with his ... constitution and a form of State government by a con- vention of delegates chosen by the people ; ( 4 ) the ratification ...
... Constitution . He is authorized , however , to consult the heads of Departments . Washington consulted with his ... constitution and a form of State government by a con- vention of delegates chosen by the people ; ( 4 ) the ratification ...
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... Constitution , which pro- vides for amendments in the follow- ing words : " The Congress , whenever two - thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary , shall propose amend- ments to this Constitution , or , on the application of the ...
... Constitution , which pro- vides for amendments in the follow- ing words : " The Congress , whenever two - thirds of both Houses shall deem it necessary , shall propose amend- ments to this Constitution , or , on the application of the ...
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... Constitution . One branch of the new system , it was claimed , was the establishment of a large national bank . The next branch was a high protective tariff , levied not to raise the revenue needed , but for protection merely ; the next ...
... Constitution . One branch of the new system , it was claimed , was the establishment of a large national bank . The next branch was a high protective tariff , levied not to raise the revenue needed , but for protection merely ; the next ...
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... Constitution the individual States ceded to the United States all territory west of the lines they estab- lished as their western boundaries . In the original charters this territory extended nominally to the Pacific Ocean , but really ...
... Constitution the individual States ceded to the United States all territory west of the lines they estab- lished as their western boundaries . In the original charters this territory extended nominally to the Pacific Ocean , but really ...
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... constitutions in defining the rights of the citizen as against the scope of the state largely followed the phraseology of this famous instrument . The Nation- al Constitution was harshly criticised on account of the omission of some ...
... constitutions in defining the rights of the citizen as against the scope of the state largely followed the phraseology of this famous instrument . The Nation- al Constitution was harshly criticised on account of the omission of some ...
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Page 217 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns, and the surest bulwarks against anti-republican tendencies...
Page 446 - I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in...
Page 401 - 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 452 - Section 1 provides that every contract combination in the form of a trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce among the several States, or with foreign nations, is hereby declared to be illegal.
Page 401 - 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 218 - Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad ; a jealous care of the right of election by the people ; a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution, where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism...
Page 11 - States, and be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union, and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence, as the other States...
Page 15 - Agriculture, the general designs and duties of which shall be to acquire and to diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with agriculture in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word, and to procure, propagate, and distribute among the people new and valuable seeds and plants.
Page 447 - If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it; if I could save it by freeing all the slaves, I would do it; and if I could save it by freeing some and leaving others alone, I would also do that.
Page 16 - That it shall be the object and duty of said experiment stations to conduct original researches or verify experiments on the physiology of plants and animals; the diseases to which they are severally subject, with the remedies for the same; the chemical composition of useful plants at their different stages of growth; the comparative advantages of rotative cropping as pursued under a varying series of crops ; the capacity of new plants or trees for acclimation; the analysis of soils and...