 The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars...  The American Whig Review - Page 1121848Full view - About this book
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional history - 1837 - 230 pages
...The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states, now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by congress prior to the year 1808. The whole object of the exception is to preserve the power to those states which might be disposed... | |
 | Henry Baldwin - Constitutional law - 1837 - 236 pages
...The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states, now existing, shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by congress prior to the year 1808. The whole object of the exception is to preserve the power to those states which might be disposed... | |
 | New Hampshire Historical Society - Local history - 1837 - 320 pages
...persons as any of the ' States now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be pro' hibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty ' may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for ' each person." — Const, of US Am. I.... | |
 | Antislavery movements - 1837 - 486 pages
..." The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shah' think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding... | |
 | Thomas Francis Gordon - Commercial law - 1837 - 886 pages
...any of the states now existing [at the time of the adoption of the constitution] shall think proper within three months, at least, after the expiration of each su one thousand eight hundred and eight ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding... | |
 | Theodore Dwight - History - 1839 - 384 pages
...constitution, which provides by the 9th section of the 1st article, that ' the migration or importation of such persons as any of the states shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to the year 1808.' " To this, it is answered, first, that this... | |
 | Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1840 - 554 pages
...articles which restrict the powers of congress, and declares, " that the emigration or importation of such persons as any of the states shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808." Now, sir, where is the difference between a power to prevent... | |
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