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... obliged to absolve Clay from being privy to it in any way , and to take this dubious attempt at friendly mediation entirely on his own shoulders . Yet , spite of all this , the base lie remained a great impediment in the way of Adams ...
... obliged to absolve Clay from being privy to it in any way , and to take this dubious attempt at friendly mediation entirely on his own shoulders . Yet , spite of all this , the base lie remained a great impediment in the way of Adams ...
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... obliged to vacate for him the place which he had filled for twelve years with the greatest dis- tinction . The chief merit of the remaining members of the cabinet was their common enmity to Henry Clay . The postmaster general , Barry ...
... obliged to vacate for him the place which he had filled for twelve years with the greatest dis- tinction . The chief merit of the remaining members of the cabinet was their common enmity to Henry Clay . The postmaster general , Barry ...
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... obliged to preface their appeals for quiet and order by very decided verdicts against the abolitionists . The whole coun- try now seemed resolved to crush them out by the moral weight of their unconditional disapproval . The newspapers ...
... obliged to preface their appeals for quiet and order by very decided verdicts against the abolitionists . The whole coun- try now seemed resolved to crush them out by the moral weight of their unconditional disapproval . The newspapers ...
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... obliged to wait patiently four years longer than he had hoped and ex- pected at first . 1 Even before the bitter war of pens between the president and vice - president had begun , Major Lewis , the head of the " Kitchen Cabinet ...
... obliged to wait patiently four years longer than he had hoped and ex- pected at first . 1 Even before the bitter war of pens between the president and vice - president had begun , Major Lewis , the head of the " Kitchen Cabinet ...
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... obliged to yield . The deputation from New York had re- quested him to convoke congress in extraordinary session . He answered that he saw no reason to so convoke it . He was obliged to come to a better conviction . The suspension 1 ...
... obliged to yield . The deputation from New York had re- quested him to convoke congress in extraordinary session . He answered that he saw no reason to so convoke it . He was obliged to come to a better conviction . The suspension 1 ...
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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.