Essays on the Constitution of the United States: Published During Its Discussion by the People, 1787-1788Paul Leicester Ford Historical Printing Club, 1892 - 424 páginas |
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... assemblies , where the necessity of calling a state con- vention to consider of the merits of the new constitution has been debated , some gentlemen , who were opposed to the plan of fed- eral government , while they reprobated it , at ...
... assemblies , where the necessity of calling a state con- vention to consider of the merits of the new constitution has been debated , some gentlemen , who were opposed to the plan of fed- eral government , while they reprobated it , at ...
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... assembly's being the judge of the qualifications requisite to con- stitute a member of their own body . That part of the fifth sec- tion which says a majority shall constitute a quorum , has been an object against which many anti ...
... assembly's being the judge of the qualifications requisite to con- stitute a member of their own body . That part of the fifth sec- tion which says a majority shall constitute a quorum , has been an object against which many anti ...
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... assembly of Massachusetts , a civil offi- cer is not excluded a seat ; whereas the new constitution expressly asserts that no person in civil office under the United States shall be eligible to a seat in either house . Sect . 7 provides ...
... assembly of Massachusetts , a civil offi- cer is not excluded a seat ; whereas the new constitution expressly asserts that no person in civil office under the United States shall be eligible to a seat in either house . Sect . 7 provides ...
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... Assemblies of the States . In this they have done liberally , without partiallity to the interests of the states individually ; and their intentions were known before the honourable body was dissolved . And now that a form of govern ...
... Assemblies of the States . In this they have done liberally , without partiallity to the interests of the states individually ; and their intentions were known before the honourable body was dissolved . And now that a form of govern ...
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... Assembly also published theirs . † Various anonymous writers have mentioned reasons of great weight . Among the many objec- tions have been stated the unlimited right of taxation - a standing army - an inadequate representation of the ...
... Assembly also published theirs . † Various anonymous writers have mentioned reasons of great weight . Among the many objec- tions have been stated the unlimited right of taxation - a standing army - an inadequate representation of the ...
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Página 299 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States ; provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Página 20 - Now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the LORD, and Satan came also among them. And the LOHD said unto Satan, Whence comest thou? Then Satan answered the LORD, and said, From going to and fro in the earth, and from walking up and down in it.
Página 167 - Constitution which we now present, is the result of a spirit of amity and of that mutual deference and concession which the peculiarity of our political situation rendered indispensable.
Página 167 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Página 169 - ... receive the sacrament of the Lord's supper, according to the usage of the Church of England...
Página 297 - Britain, and it is necessary that the exercise of every kind of authority under the said crown should be totally suppressed and all the powers of government exerted under the authority of the people of the colonies...
Página 99 - And provided further, that the said Corporation shall confer no Degrees other than those of Bachelor of Arts & Master of Arts until after the first day of January, which will be in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred. And...
Página 306 - No member of this state shall be disfranchised, or deprived of any of the rights or privileges secured to any citizen thereof, unless by the law of the land or the judgment of his peers.
Página 23 - The insulting tyrant, prancing o'er the field, Strewed with Rome's citizens, and drenched in slaughter; His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood! Oh, Portius! is there not some chosen curse, Some hidden thunder in the stores of Heaven, Red with uncommon wrath, to blast the man, Who owes his greatness to his country's ruin?
Página 44 - ... shall be valid to all intents and purposes, as part of this constitution when ratified by the legislatures of three-fourths of the several states, or by conventions in three-fourths thereof...