The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846. Jackson's administration. Annexation of Texas. 1888Callaghan, 1888 |
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... citizens , wrapped up in their every - day avocations by the love of acquisition , at all times charac- teristic of the people , did not perceive how slowly , but at the same time how uninterruptedly , the destinies of the country were ...
... citizens , wrapped up in their every - day avocations by the love of acquisition , at all times charac- teristic of the people , did not perceive how slowly , but at the same time how uninterruptedly , the destinies of the country were ...
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... citizens began to sink to the level of mere figurants , and the majority of real com- office ; during John Adams ' , ten ; during Jefferson's , thirty - nine ; during Madison's , five ; during Monroe's , nine ; during John Quincy Adams ...
... citizens began to sink to the level of mere figurants , and the majority of real com- office ; during John Adams ' , ten ; during Jefferson's , thirty - nine ; during Madison's , five ; during Monroe's , nine ; during John Quincy Adams ...
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... citizens , and it must be admitted by all , that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency . " If the meaning of this was that Jackson himself considered the bank unconstitutional , still this was true ...
... citizens , and it must be admitted by all , that it has failed in the great end of establishing a uniform and sound currency . " If the meaning of this was that Jackson himself considered the bank unconstitutional , still this was true ...
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... citizens , especially in the money - poor west , a pressure which awakened to an extent greater than ever before the political alarms in relation to an institution of the kind , which had been lulled to sleep by time . These were of ...
... citizens , especially in the money - poor west , a pressure which awakened to an extent greater than ever before the political alarms in relation to an institution of the kind , which had been lulled to sleep by time . These were of ...
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... citizens , without any reservation , it was the principle that the Federal government 1 Webster , in his speech of the 7th of May , 1834 , mentions a law of May , 1800 , which provides for the depositing of the custom house bonds in the ...
... citizens , without any reservation , it was the principle that the Federal government 1 Webster , in his speech of the 7th of May , 1834 , mentions a law of May , 1800 , which provides for the depositing of the custom house bonds in the ...
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846 ... Hermann Von Holst Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1888 |
The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846 ... Hermann Von Holst Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1888 |
The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846 ... Hermann Von Holst Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1879 |
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Sida 68 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
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 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 263 - Representatives, to take into consideration what disposition should be made of petitions and memorials for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, in the District of Columbia, and report thereon.
Sida 595 - I recommend that an act be passed authorizing reprisals, and the use of the naval force of the United States by the Executive against Mexico to enforce them, in the event of a refusal by the Mexican Government to come to an amicable adjustment of the matters in controversy between us upon another demand thereof made from on board one of our vessels of war on the coast of Mexico.
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 273 - ... any one or more states, or a combination of their citizens, with the domestic institutions and police of the others, on any ground or under any pretext whatever, political, moral, or religious, with a view to their alteration or subversion...
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.
Sida 643 - Mexico to meet any emergency ; and that similar orders have been issued by the secretary of war to move the disposable forces on our southwestern frontier for the same purpose. Should the exigency arise to which you refer in your note to Mr. Upshur, I am further directed by the president to say that, during the pendency of the treaty of annexation, he would deem it his duty to use all the means placed within his power by the constitution to protect Texas from all foreign invasion.