The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846. Jackson's administration. Annexation of Texas. 1888Callaghan, 1881 |
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... Calhoun , II , p . 438 ; Niles ' Reg . , XLIII , p . 9. Benton admits that during the first year six hundred and ninety officials were dismissed . Thirty Years ' View , I , p . 160. Clay writes March 12 , 1829 , that is , eight days ...
... Calhoun , II , p . 438 ; Niles ' Reg . , XLIII , p . 9. Benton admits that during the first year six hundred and ninety officials were dismissed . Thirty Years ' View , I , p . 160. Clay writes March 12 , 1829 , that is , eight days ...
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... Calhoun's prophecy as to what would have to be the upshot of all this : " When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game ; that those who are engaged in it but act a part ; that they make this or that profession , not from ...
... Calhoun's prophecy as to what would have to be the upshot of all this : " When it comes to be once understood that politics is a game ; that those who are engaged in it but act a part ; that they make this or that profession , not from ...
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... Calhoun's assertion that the " real offense of the bank is not that it has intermeddled in politics , but that it would not intermeddle on the side of power . " 2 ' See the correspondence relating to the Portsmouth branch bank in Niles ...
... Calhoun's assertion that the " real offense of the bank is not that it has intermeddled in politics , but that it would not intermeddle on the side of power . " 2 ' See the correspondence relating to the Portsmouth branch bank in Niles ...
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... Calhoun and Van Buren overlooked " the probability that General Jackson will run again , and that that is his present purpose I am quite sure . " Priv . Corresp . of D. Webster , I , p . 488. Adams shared this view , but as to the rest ...
... Calhoun and Van Buren overlooked " the probability that General Jackson will run again , and that that is his present purpose I am quite sure . " Priv . Corresp . of D. Webster , I , p . 488. Adams shared this view , but as to the rest ...
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... Calhoun's motion , the senate referred this part of the message to a special committee of five members , four of wwere chosen from the south . Spite of this , the report winch accompanied the bill introduced on the 4th of Febru ary ...
... Calhoun's motion , the senate referred this part of the message to a special committee of five members , four of wwere chosen from the south . Spite of this , the report winch accompanied the bill introduced on the 4th of Febru ary ...
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The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846 ... Hermann Von Holst Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - 1888 |
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Sida 62 - 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 62 - 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 138 - State from bringing with them such persons as are deemed slaves by the laws of any one of the United States...
Sida 259 - 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 48 - ... 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 585 - 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 66 - 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 269 - ... 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 241 - 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 46 - ... would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone, without which the power given would be nugatory, would have been to deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of...