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United States. Congress. SENATE . ] Vetoed Bill . - Standing Committees . " No person , who has been so long a member ... United States . Messrs . GRUNDY and FRELINGHUYSEN were appointed on the joint committee , to wait on the President ...
United States. Congress. SENATE . ] Vetoed Bill . - Standing Committees . " No person , who has been so long a member ... United States . Messrs . GRUNDY and FRELINGHUYSEN were appointed on the joint committee , to wait on the President ...
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United States. Congress. SENATE . ] Public Lands . ( JANUARY 7 , 1833 . cy of wealth and population in the older States . Under shall secure to it a perpetuity of at least five hundred years such circumstances , can the new States be ...
United States. Congress. SENATE . ] Public Lands . ( JANUARY 7 , 1833 . cy of wealth and population in the older States . Under shall secure to it a perpetuity of at least five hundred years such circumstances , can the new States be ...
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United States. Congress. SENATE . ] Public Lands . JANUARY 7 , 1833 . Had Pennsylvania any control over the mint or the arse- 17 per cent . to the new States , before you divide the nal , over any part of her territory which she had ...
United States. Congress. SENATE . ] Public Lands . JANUARY 7 , 1833 . Had Pennsylvania any control over the mint or the arse- 17 per cent . to the new States , before you divide the nal , over any part of her territory which she had ...
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United States. Congress. JAN . 12 , 1833. ] Public Lands . [ SENATE . blacks , there always the slave is less manageable , and pose the President had not expressed such an opinion . his condition will be imbittered by harsher treatment ...
United States. Congress. JAN . 12 , 1833. ] Public Lands . [ SENATE . blacks , there always the slave is less manageable , and pose the President had not expressed such an opinion . his condition will be imbittered by harsher treatment ...
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United States. Congress. JAN . 19 , 1833. ] Public Lands . [ SENATE . with the laws which have been enacted to carry them sovereign , and independent States , they solemnly pledg- into effect , both under the old confederation and the ex ...
United States. Congress. JAN . 19 , 1833. ] Public Lands . [ SENATE . with the laws which have been enacted to carry them sovereign , and independent States , they solemnly pledg- into effect , both under the old confederation and the ex ...
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Page 273 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common • defence, the security of their Liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon, them or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 285 - ... 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.
Page 425 - 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.
Page 273 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 297 - The only answer that can be given is, that as all these exterior provisions are found to be inadequate, the defect must be supplied, by so contriving the interior structure of the Government as that its several constituent parts may, by their mutual relations, be the means of keeping each other in their proper places.
Page 297 - In the compound Republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.
Page 325 - The government of the Union, then (whatever may be the influence of this fact on the case), is emphatically and truly a government of the people. In form and in substance it emanates from them, its powers are granted by them, and are to be exercised directly on them, and for their benefit.
Page 295 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the Federal Government are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State Governments are numerous and indefinite.
Page 377 - And not for justice ? What, shall one of us, That struck the foremost man of all this world But for supporting robbers, shall we now Contaminate our fingers with base bribes, And sell the mighty space of our large honours For so much trash as may be grasped thus ? I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, Than such a Roman.
Page 555 - Canada acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into, and entitled to all the advantages of this Union: but no other colony shall be admitted into the same, unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.