The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious IndexGales and Seaton, 1855 |
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... clause of the Constitution which had armed the Government with so formidable a power as the control of , or interference with , the press . A Government , said they , of limited powers , and author- ized to execute such only as are ...
... clause of the Constitution which had armed the Government with so formidable a power as the control of , or interference with , the press . A Government , said they , of limited powers , and author- ized to execute such only as are ...
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... clause , that he offered the amendment . Mr. KING , of New York , confessed himself at some loss how to decide on this amendment . If he voted in the affirmative , it might seem as if the Senate could pass a resolution contrary to the ...
... clause , that he offered the amendment . Mr. KING , of New York , confessed himself at some loss how to decide on this amendment . If he voted in the affirmative , it might seem as if the Senate could pass a resolution contrary to the ...
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... clause , or any particular clause of the consti- tution of Missouri ; and the amendment offered by Mr. WILSON differed from his own in this only , that it did designate a particular feature in the He did not think this course so ...
... clause , or any particular clause of the consti- tution of Missouri ; and the amendment offered by Mr. WILSON differed from his own in this only , that it did designate a particular feature in the He did not think this course so ...
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... clause which he opposed could be cepted , Mr. B , said his objection to it arose on the maintained in force ; and , as an instance , he re- following clause , which he found in the 26th sec - ferred to the laws against kidnapping . In ...
... clause which he opposed could be cepted , Mr. B , said his objection to it arose on the maintained in force ; and , as an instance , he re- following clause , which he found in the 26th sec - ferred to the laws against kidnapping . In ...
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... clause Missouri has adopted , and it is the duty of Congress to reject it . Mr. B. said he would add nothing more about the right of Congress to decide this question ; he would merely say , Congress must from necessity decide it ; it ...
... clause Missouri has adopted , and it is the duty of Congress to reject it . Mr. B. said he would add nothing more about the right of Congress to decide this question ; he would merely say , Congress must from necessity decide it ; it ...
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Página 731 - ... a well-disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them ; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority ; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burdened ; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith...
Página 543 - The legislatures of those districts or new states shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress , assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers.
Página 111 - Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the State of California 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.
Página 55 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Página 337 - An act for enrolling or licensing ships or vessels to be employed in the coasting trade and fisheries, and for regulating the same.
Página 731 - ... freedom of religion; freedom of the press; and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus; and trial by juries impartially selected — these principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation.
Página 607 - States in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants, of every age, sex, and condition, including those bound to servitude for a term of years, and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes in each State...
Página 671 - It shall be their duty, as soon as may be, to pass such laws as may be necessary, First. To prevent free negroes and mulattoes from coming to and settling in this state under any pretext whatsoever ; and, Second.
Página 783 - Taxes upon every article which enters into the mouth, or covers the back, or is placed under the foot. Taxes upon everything which it is pleasant to see, hear, feel, smell or taste. Taxes upon warmth, light and locomotion. Taxes on everything on earth, and the waters under the earth ; on everything that comes from abroad, or is grown at home.
Página 93 - That after the said limitation shall take effect as aforesaid, no person born out of the kingdoms of England, Scotland or Ireland or the dominions thereunto belonging (although he be naturalized or made a denizen, except such as are born of English parents) shall be capable to be of the privy council, or a member of either house of parliament...