Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: March 4, 1789-June 1, 1796D. Appleton, 1857 |
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... officers of the militia , in the county of Chatham , lieutenant - colonel of the militia in that district ; and , on ... officer of the port of Savannah not having met with your concurrence , I now nominate Lachlan McIntosh for that ...
... officers of the militia , in the county of Chatham , lieutenant - colonel of the militia in that district ; and , on ... officer of the port of Savannah not having met with your concurrence , I now nominate Lachlan McIntosh for that ...
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... officers as final and conclusive , until ratified by the sovereign or government from whom they derive their powers . This practice has been adopted by the United States respecting their treaties with Eu- ropean nations , and I am ...
... officers as final and conclusive , until ratified by the sovereign or government from whom they derive their powers . This practice has been adopted by the United States respecting their treaties with Eu- ropean nations , and I am ...
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... officers of the several States , who have been heretofore chosen or appointed , or who shall be chosen or appointed before the first day of August next , and who shall then be in office , shall , within one month thereafter , take the ...
... officers of the several States , who have been heretofore chosen or appointed , or who shall be chosen or appointed before the first day of August next , and who shall then be in office , shall , within one month thereafter , take the ...
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... officers will not neral declarations cannot be carried into effect , willingly pay this testimony of their attachment without particular regulations adapted to the to the constitution , what is extorted from them circumstances . These ...
... officers will not neral declarations cannot be carried into effect , willingly pay this testimony of their attachment without particular regulations adapted to the to the constitution , what is extorted from them circumstances . These ...
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... officers cannot act without it ; reasons were offered to show its propriety ; hence the legality of their acts may be called not but if I have been mistaken , I am always in question , and give cause to a great deal of ready to retract ...
... officers cannot act without it ; reasons were offered to show its propriety ; hence the legality of their acts may be called not but if I have been mistaken , I am always in question , and give cause to a great deal of ready to retract ...
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Página 455 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 425 - An act respecting fugitives from justice, and persons escaping from the service of their masters...
Página 243 - That Congress have no authority to interfere in the emancipation of slaves, or in the treatment of them within any of the States ; it remaining with the several States alone to provide any regulations therein, which humanity and true policy may require.
Página 173 - To the security of a free constitution it contributes in various ways: by convincing those who are intrusted with the public administration that every valuable end of government is best answered by the enlightened confidence of the people, and by teaching the people themselves to know and to value their own rights...
Página 452 - As soon as the war in Europe had embraced those Powers with whom the United States nave the most extensive relations, there was reason to apprehend that our intercourse with them might be interrupted, and our disposition for peace drawn into question by the suspicions too often entertained by belligerent nations.
Página 256 - I was a stranger to the circumstances which should govern it. But it was finally agreed that whatever importance had been attached to the rejection of this proposition, the preservation of the Union and of concord among the States was more important, and that therefore it would be better that the vote of rejection should be rescinded, to effect which some members should change their votes. But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant...
Página 173 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Página 12 - I must decline as inapplicable to myself any share in the personal emoluments which may be indispensably included in a permanent provision for the executive department...
Página 453 - ... have made overtures for placing these advantages on permanent ground. A decree, however, of the National Assembly, subjecting vessels laden with provisions to be carried into their ports, and making enemy goods lawful prize in the vessel of a friend, contrary to our Treaty, though revoked at oue time as to the United States, has been since extended to their vessels also, as has been recently stated to us.
Página 91 - I think it absolutely necessary that the President should have the power of removing from office; it will make him, in a peculiar manner, responsible for their conduct, and subject him to impeachment himself, if he suffers them to perpetrate with impunity high crimes or misdemeanors against the United States, or neglects to superintend their conduct, so as to check their excesses.