Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States, Before the Adoption of the Constitution, المجلد 2Hilliard, Gray,, 1833 - 776 من الصفحات |
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... influence in the administration of their respective powers . Power , however , is of an encroaching nature , and it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assign- ed to it . Having separated the three great depart ...
... influence in the administration of their respective powers . Power , however , is of an encroaching nature , and it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assign- ed to it . Having separated the three great depart ...
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... influence over the executive power , since it holds at its own command all the resources , by which a chief magistrate could make himself formidable . It possesses the power over the purse of the nation , and the property of the people ...
... influence over the executive power , since it holds at its own command all the resources , by which a chief magistrate could make himself formidable . It possesses the power over the purse of the nation , and the property of the people ...
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... influence and the dread of the royal prerogative , which was pressing upon them , never for a moment seem to have turned their eyes from the immediate danger to liberty from that source , combined , as it was , with an hereditary ...
... influence and the dread of the royal prerogative , which was pressing upon them , never for a moment seem to have turned their eyes from the immediate danger to liberty from that source , combined , as it was , with an hereditary ...
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... influence over the people , with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions , which ac- tuate the multitude ; yet not so numerous , as to be in- capable of pursuing the objects ...
... influence over the people , with an intrepid confidence in its own strength ; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions , which ac- tuate the multitude ; yet not so numerous , as to be in- capable of pursuing the objects ...
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... influence . If it be true , that all governments rest on opinion , it is no less true , that the strength of opinion in each individ- ual , and its practical influence on his conduct , depend much upon the number , which he supposes to ...
... influence . If it be true , that all governments rest on opinion , it is no less true , that the strength of opinion in each individ- ual , and its practical influence on his conduct , depend much upon the number , which he supposes to ...
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الصفحة 507 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
الصفحة 4 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty; because apprehensions may arise lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
الصفحة 391 - Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
الصفحة 395 - Confederation; and, moreover, to legislate in all cases for the general interests of the Union, and also in those to which the states are separately incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation.
الصفحة 547 - I consider, then, the power to annul a law of the United States, assumed by one state, incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted expressly by the letter of the constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent with every principle on which it was founded, and destructive of the great object for which it was formed.
الصفحة 552 - To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the Union, is to say that the United States are not a nation...
الصفحة 535 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of Government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
الصفحة 104 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative ; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New...
الصفحة 309 - Congress a power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts, and excises ; to pay the debts, and provide for the common defence and general welfare of the United States, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the powers vested by the constitution in the government of the United States...
الصفحة 507 - If commerce does not include navigation, the government of the Union has no direct power over that subject, and can make no law prescribing what shall constitute American vessels, or requiring that they shall be navigated by American seamen. Yet this power has been exercised from the commencement of the government, has been exercised with the consent of all, and has been understood by all to be a commercial regulation. All America understands, and has uniformly understood, the word "commerce,