A Reply to the Review of Judge Advocate General Holt, of the Proceedings, Findings and Sentence, of the General Court Martial: In the Case of Major General Fitz John Porter, and a Vindication of that Officer, Masalah 1-7John Murphy & Company, 1863 - 88 halaman |
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... Government is con- cerned , it is wholly immaterial under whose prompting , or for what end they were written . ” Not for what end ? However important to the public good the in- formation they gave was - however patriotie the motive ...
... Government is con- cerned , it is wholly immaterial under whose prompting , or for what end they were written . ” Not for what end ? However important to the public good the in- formation they gave was - however patriotie the motive ...
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... Government . And yet , who in his senses concurs in the justice of that sentence , or fails to stamp it as a gross wrong to Porter and the country . For a time he may not again be permitted to honor his profession , and serve the nation ...
... Government . And yet , who in his senses concurs in the justice of that sentence , or fails to stamp it as a gross wrong to Porter and the country . For a time he may not again be permitted to honor his profession , and serve the nation ...
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... government can no more exist without a power to assert the supremacy of the Constitu- tion , than the world can exist without the provi- dence of God . Sir , what is a Constitution ? Why are we here , in a Convention , to revise one ...
... government can no more exist without a power to assert the supremacy of the Constitu- tion , than the world can exist without the provi- dence of God . Sir , what is a Constitution ? Why are we here , in a Convention , to revise one ...
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... government of this Commonwealth the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers ... government of laws and not of men . " I have heard arguments made on this floor upon the assumption that this is a ...
... government of this Commonwealth the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers ... government of laws and not of men . " I have heard arguments made on this floor upon the assumption that this is a ...
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... government , and needs protection . It is the feeblest department of the government . So say Hamilton , and Jay , and Madison ; so says Marshall , so says Story , so say Kent and Rawle and all the writers on the Con- stitution . And is ...
... government , and needs protection . It is the feeblest department of the government . So say Hamilton , and Jay , and Madison ; so says Marshall , so says Story , so say Kent and Rawle and all the writers on the Con- stitution . And is ...
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Halaman 12 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Halaman 6 - That the maintenance inviolate of the rights of the States, and especially the right of each State to order and control its own domestic institutions according to its own judgment exclusively...
Halaman 7 - IT is essential to the preservation of the rights of every individual, his life, liberty, property and character, that there be an impartial interpretation of the laws, and administration of justice. It is the right of every citizen to be tried by judges as free, impartial and independent as the lot of humanity will admit.
Halaman 27 - But there is nothing in our laws, or in the law of nations, that forbids our citizens from sending armed vessels, as well as munitions of war, to foreign ports for sale. It is a commercial adventure which no nation is bound to prohibit, and which only exposes the persons engaged in it to the penalty of confiscation.
Halaman 6 - ... employed in. the service of any foreign prince, state, or potentate, or of any foreign colony, province, or part of any province or people...
Halaman 7 - Majesty, for that purpose first had and obtained as aforesaid, shall, by adding to the number of the guns of such vessel, or by changing those on board for other guns, or by the addition of any equipment for war...
Halaman 47 - The modern usage of nations, which has become law," — mark the words, Mr. Speaker, — " the modern usage of nations, which has become law," — — " would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right, which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world, would be outraged, — if private property should be generally confiscated, and private rights annulled.
Halaman 5 - On the contrary, if war be actually levied, that is, if a body of men be actually assembled for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable purpose, all those who perform any part, however minute, or however remote from the scene of action, and who are actually leagued in the general conspiracy, are to be considered as traitors.
Halaman 203 - Every subject has a right to be secure from all unreasonable searches, and seizures, of his person, his houses, his papers, and all his possessions.
Halaman 16 - Oh! happy state! when souls each other draw, When love is liberty, and nature law: All then is full, possessing and possess'd, No craving void left aching in the breast: Ev'n thought meets thought, ere from the lips it part, And each warm wish springs mutual from the heart.