The American Politican: Containing the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, the Inaugural and First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents, and Other Important State Papers; Together with a Selection of Interesting Statistical Tables, and Biographical Notices of the Signers of the Declaration of Independence, the Several Presidents, and Many Other Distinguished CharactersB. Marsh, 1844 - 564 halaman |
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... institution of a national university ; or by any other expedients , will be well worthy of a place in the delibera- tions of the legislature . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I saw with peculiar pleasure , at the close of ...
... institution of a national university ; or by any other expedients , will be well worthy of a place in the delibera- tions of the legislature . Gentlemen of the House of Representatives : I saw with peculiar pleasure , at the close of ...
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... institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion , exposes to perpetual ...
... institutions ; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitutions of a country ; that facility in changes , upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion , exposes to perpetual ...
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... institutions , and to progress , without inter- ruption , to that degree of strength and constancy , which is necessary to give it , humanly speaking , the command of its own fortune . Though , in reviewing the incidents of my ...
... institutions , and to progress , without inter- ruption , to that degree of strength and constancy , which is necessary to give it , humanly speaking , the command of its own fortune . Though , in reviewing the incidents of my ...
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... institutions established in remote antiquity , than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people ? For it is the people only that are represented : it is their power and majesty that is ...
... institutions established in remote antiquity , than when it springs fresh from the hearts and judgments of an honest and enlightened people ? For it is the people only that are represented : it is their power and majesty that is ...
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... institution for propagating knowledge , virtue , and religion , among all classes of the people , not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes , and of society in all its forms , but as the ...
... institution for propagating knowledge , virtue , and religion , among all classes of the people , not only for their benign influence on the happiness of life in all its stages and classes , and of society in all its forms , but as the ...
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Halaman 13 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Halaman 49 - I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves by suitable establishments on a respectable defensive posture, we may safely trust to temporary alliances for extraordinary emergencies.
Halaman 27 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Halaman 65 - All too will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will, to be rightful, must be reasonable ; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal laws must protect, and to violate which would be oppression.
Halaman 19 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Halaman 37 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...
Halaman 45 - Promote, then, as an object of primary importance, institutions for the general diffusion of knowledge. In proportion as the structure of a government gives force to public opinion, it is essential that public opinion should be enlightened.
Halaman 42 - Let me now take a more comprehensive view, and warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party generally. This spirit, unfortunately, is inseparable from our nature, having its root in the strongest passions of the human mind.
Halaman 24 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Halaman 14 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.