The American Crisis ConsideredLongman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1861 - 296 halaman |
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... has never been the case and the deliberate - - action of Virginia by a vote of 150,000 majority of North Carolina and Tennessee unanimously — all three claiming to be sovereign States , and on the 2 THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
... has never been the case and the deliberate - - action of Virginia by a vote of 150,000 majority of North Carolina and Tennessee unanimously — all three claiming to be sovereign States , and on the 2 THE CONSENT OF THE PEOPLE.
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... vote by majority , can there remain a sufficient quorum to make up the constitutional number for a legislative act ? We cannot , therefore , on all these grounds , resist the conclusion that , as a fact , the United States exist no ...
... vote by majority , can there remain a sufficient quorum to make up the constitutional number for a legislative act ? We cannot , therefore , on all these grounds , resist the conclusion that , as a fact , the United States exist no ...
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... votes of the settlers became of importance , and involves too deeply - rooted antipathies and pre- judices ever to allow of reconciliation . The systematic interference of the Northern proselytisers in the States south of the line was ...
... votes of the settlers became of importance , and involves too deeply - rooted antipathies and pre- judices ever to allow of reconciliation . The systematic interference of the Northern proselytisers in the States south of the line was ...
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... voting and eligibility to public offices . The planters offer freely $ 1.50 per day for labour ; sixteen days ' labour will buy such a piece of land , and the market of Kingston offers a great demand for vegetables at all times . These ...
... voting and eligibility to public offices . The planters offer freely $ 1.50 per day for labour ; sixteen days ' labour will buy such a piece of land , and the market of Kingston offers a great demand for vegetables at all times . These ...
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... votes they seek . As well might a party of political traders point to the influx and efflux of the tide , and pretend that their efforts alone prevent the farm - lands on the Atlantic from being drowned at each recurring flood ...
... votes they seek . As well might a party of political traders point to the influx and efflux of the tide , and pretend that their efforts alone prevent the farm - lands on the Atlantic from being drowned at each recurring flood ...
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Halaman 13 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards the very engines which have lifted them to unjust dominion.
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Halaman 235 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other, but the different parts of our country cannot do this. They cannot but remain face to face, and intercourse, either amicable or hostile, must continue between them.
Halaman 229 - Again, if the United States be not a government proper, but an association of States in the nature of contract merely, can it, as a contract, be peaceably unmade by less than all the parties who made it ? One party to a contract may violate it — break it, so to speak; but does it not require all to lawfully rescind it?
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Halaman 232 - The Constitution does not expressly say. Must Congress protect slavery in the Territories? The Constitution does not expressly say. From questions of this class spring all our constitutional controversies, and we divide upon them into majorities and minorities. If the minority will not acquiesce the majority must, or the Government must cease.
Halaman 104 - And be it further enacted, that in all that territory ceded by France to the United States under the name of Louisiana, which lies north of thirty-six degrees and thirty minutes north latitude, not included within the limits of the state contemplated by this act, slavery and involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes whereof the parties shall have been duly convicted, shall be, and is hereby, forever prohibited.
Halaman 234 - ... if the policy of the Government upon vital questions • affecting the whole people is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their Government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Halaman 228 - It is seventy-two years since the first inauguration of a President under our National Constitution. During that period, fifteen different and...
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