The Works of John C. Calhoun: Speeches ... delivered in the House of Representatives and in the Senate of the United StatesD. Appleton, 1853 |
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Página 498 - That the State of Michigan shall be one, and is hereby declared to be one, of the United States of America, and admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original States in all respects whatever. SEC. 2. And be it further enacled, That the Secretary of the Treasury,
Página 238 - behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power
Página 140 - is not the objection insisted on. It is mainly urged, that the Congress can only apply the public money in execution of the enumerated powers. I am no advocate for refined arguments on the constitution. The instrument was not intended as a thesis for the logician to exercise his ingenuity on. It ought to be construed with
Página 239 - granted thereby remains with them, and at their will; that, therefore, no right of any denomination can be cancelled, abridged, restrained, or modified by the Congress, by the Senate or House of Representatives, acting in any capacity, by the President or any department or officer of the
Página 213 - The Union itself is too full of benefits to be hazarded in propositions for changing its original basis. I go for the constitution as it is. and for the Union as it is. But I am resolved not to submit in silence to accusations, cither against myself individually, or against the North,
Página 240 - But the proper answer to this objection is, that the resolution of the General Assembly relates to those great and extraordinary cases in which all the forms of the Constitution may prove ineffectual against infractions dangerous to the essential rights of the parties to it. The resolution supposes that dangerous powers, not delegated, may not only
Página 188 - be permitted to raise the inquiry, In what manner are* we citizens of the United States ? without weakening the patriotic feeling with which, I trust, it will ever be uttered. If by citizen of the United States he means a citizen at large, one whose citizenship extends to the entire geographical limits of the
Página 222 - Constitution of the United States, and the construction of all laws made in pursuance thereof, are exclusively rested by the people in the judicial courts of the United States." " That the people, in that solemn compact, which is declared to be the supreme law of
Página 238 - most mature deliberation hath enabled us, to decide thereon, do, in the name and in behalf of the people of Virginia, declare and make known that the powers granted under the constitution, being derived from the people of the United States, may be resumed by them whensoever the same shall be perverted to their injury or oppression, and that every power
Página 179 - sovereignty is in the several States, and that our system is a union of twenty-four sovereign powers, under a constitutional compact, and not of a divided sovereignty between the States severally and the United States. In spite of all that has been said, I maintain that sovereignty is in its