Reports of Committees: 30th Congress, 1st Session - 48th Congress, 2nd Session, Volume 2

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Halaman 3 - 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 experience, to exercise its reason, and to accommodate its legislation to circumstances.
Halaman 3 - This could not be done by confining the choice of means to such narrow limits as not to leave it in the power of Congress to adopt any which might be appropriate and which were conducive to the end.
Halaman 4 - The General Assembly shall have no power to release or extinguish, in whole or in part, the indebtedness, liability or obligation of any corporation or individual to this State, or to any municipal corporation therein.
Halaman 12 - A majority of each house shall constitute a quorum to do business; but a smaller number may adjourn from day to day, and may compel the attendance of absent members in such manner, and under such penalties, as each house may provide.
Halaman 3 - We must never forget that it is a constitution we are expounding" (McCulloch v. Maryland, 4 Wheat. 316, 407)— "a constitution intended to endure for ages to come, and, consequently, to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs.
Halaman 5 - This is where they doubt the matter of law, and therefore choose to leave it to the determination of the court; though they have an unquestionable right of determining upon all the circumstances, and finding a general verdict, if they think proper so to hazard a breach of their oaths: and if their verdict be notoriously wrong, they may be punished, and the verdict set aside by attaint at the suit of the king; but not at the suit of the prisoner...
Halaman 3 - To have prescribed the means by which government should, in all future time, execute its powers, would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument, and give it the properties of a legal code.
Halaman 5 - And such public or open verdict may be either general, guilty, or not guilty; or special, setting forth all the circumstances of the case and praying the judgment of the court, whether for instance, on the facts stated, it be murder, manslaughter, or no crime at all.
Halaman 2 - State, shall provide, by an ordinance, irrevocable without the consent of the United States, that the said State shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil within the same by the United States, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers thereof...

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