A Disquisition on Government, Volumen1A. S. Johnston, 1851 - 406 páginas Copy held in Manuscripts Division (John Julius Dargan papers)includes annotations, comments, re Constitutional law, "spoils system," Calhoun's death; views on Abraham Lincoln; etc.; Volume I only. |
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... authority , and to make this higher power , in reality , the government ; with the same tendency , on the part of those who might control its powers , to pervert them into instruments of aggrandizement . Nor can it be done by limit- 8 A ...
... authority , and to make this higher power , in reality , the government ; with the same tendency , on the part of those who might control its powers , to pervert them into instruments of aggrandizement . Nor can it be done by limit- 8 A ...
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... authority , without counteracting , in the least , the tendency of the government to oppression and abuse of its powers . If the whole community had the same interests , so that the interests of each and every portion would be so ...
... authority , without counteracting , in the least , the tendency of the government to oppression and abuse of its powers . If the whole community had the same interests , so that the interests of each and every portion would be so ...
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... authority of establishing and abolishing governments at pleasure . This radical error , the consequence of confound- ing the two , and of regarding the numerical as the only majority , has contributed more than any other cause , to ...
... authority of establishing and abolishing governments at pleasure . This radical error , the consequence of confound- ing the two , and of regarding the numerical as the only majority , has contributed more than any other cause , to ...
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... authority , than that of force ; and , of course , leave no other alternative to the governed , but to acquiesce in oppression , however great it may be , or to resort to force to put down the government . But the dread of such a resort ...
... authority , than that of force ; and , of course , leave no other alternative to the governed , but to acquiesce in oppression , however great it may be , or to resort to force to put down the government . But the dread of such a resort ...
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... authority than that of force , have I overlooked the case of gov- ernments of the numerical majority , which form , apparently , an exception . It is true that , in such governments , the minor and subject party , for the A DISQUISITION ...
... authority than that of force , have I overlooked the case of gov- ernments of the numerical majority , which form , apparently , an exception . It is true that , in such governments , the minor and subject party , for the A DISQUISITION ...
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
A Disquisition on Government and Selections from the Discourse John Caldwell Calhoun Vista previa limitada - 1995 |
A Disquisition on Government, and Selections from the Discourse John Caldwell Calhoun Vista de fragmentos - 1953 |
A Disquisition on Government: And Selections from the Discourse John Caldwell Calhoun Vista de fragmentos - 1953 |
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Pasajes populares
Página 355 - That to this compact each State acceded as a State, and is an integral party, its co-States forming, as to itself, the other party : That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers...
Página 354 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the States who are parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them.
Página 325 - States, and the decision is against their validity, or where is drawn in question the validity of a statute of, or an authority exercised under any State on the ground of their being repugnant to the Constitution, treaties, or laws of the United States, and the decision is in favor of their validity...
Página 353 - That this assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the Federal Government as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties...
Página 318 - By the twenty-filth section of the judiciary act of seventeen hundred and eighty-nine, it is provided, "that a final judgment or decree in any suit in the highest court of law or equity of a state, in which a decision in the suit could be had...
Página 208 - No state shall, without the consent of congress, lay any duty on tonnage, keep troops or ships of war in time of peace, enter into any agreement or compact with another state or with a foreign power, or engage in war, unless actually invaded or in such imminent danger as will not admit of delay.
Página 206 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Página 136 - 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 115 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right which is not by this Confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 151 - The idea of a National Government involves in it, not only an authority over the individual citizens, but an indefinite supremacy over all persons and things, so far as they are objects of lawful Government. Among a People consolidated into one Nation, this supremacy is completely vested in the National Legislature.