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... action . It was not his desire for revenge , and his unprincipled ambition to rule , that sud- denly transformed the habitual good custom hitherto , into the evil , which to this day is one of the great misfortunes of the republic . He ...
... action . It was not his desire for revenge , and his unprincipled ambition to rule , that sud- denly transformed the habitual good custom hitherto , into the evil , which to this day is one of the great misfortunes of the republic . He ...
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... action the one and the other subjectivity in the highest power . To shake an opinion which he had once formed , by argument , or even to modify it , was , therefore , almost impossible ; but until he had formed a fixed opinion , he was ...
... action the one and the other subjectivity in the highest power . To shake an opinion which he had once formed , by argument , or even to modify it , was , therefore , almost impossible ; but until he had formed a fixed opinion , he was ...
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... action ; but he did so in the face of an express decision of the supreme court . He , indeed , would not allow that the decision in the case of McCulloch v . State of Maryland covered the whole question , because the court had declared ...
... action ; but he did so in the face of an express decision of the supreme court . He , indeed , would not allow that the decision in the case of McCulloch v . State of Maryland covered the whole question , because the court had declared ...
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... action of this committee unsatisfactory in every respect . But the pre- sumptuous boldness of this assertion did not suffice to make congress render itself ridiculous by ordering another investi- gation , as a pretext for which the ...
... action of this committee unsatisfactory in every respect . But the pre- sumptuous boldness of this assertion did not suffice to make congress render itself ridiculous by ordering another investi- gation , as a pretext for which the ...
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... action by competent authority . On the 20th of September , after Duane had made known his last resolve to the president , the Globe , the official pa- per of the administration , wrote that it was authorized to say that the deposits ...
... action by competent authority . On the 20th of September , after Duane had made known his last resolve to the president , the Globe , the official pa- per of the administration , wrote that it was authorized to say that the deposits ...
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Sida 429 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Sida 64 - By the constitution of the United States, the president is invested with certain important political powers, in the exercise of which, he is to use his own discretion, and is accountable only to his country in his political character, and to his own conscience.
Sida 64 - In such cases, their acts are his acts ; and whatever opinion may be entertained of the manner in which Executive discretion may be used, still there exists, and can exist, no power to control that discretion. The subjects are political; they respect the nation, not individual rights, and being intrusted to the Executive, the decision of the Executive is conclusive.
Sida 441 - Army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...
Sida 48 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects intrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Sida 49 - The Congress, the Executive and the Court must each for itself be guided by its own opinion of the Constitution. Each public officer who takes an oath to support the Constitution swears that he will support it as he understands it, and not as it is understood by others.
Sida 263 - William Slade, of Vermont, joined to the presentation of some abolitionist petitions the motion that they should be referred to an extraordinary committee, with instructions to bring in a bill for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia.
Sida 50 - ... every man is equally entitled to protection by law; but when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful...
Sida 254 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall— (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Sida 245 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions, or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatsoever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.