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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... trial of peers , the house of lords sits as a grand court of trials for public offences . The powers of the judi- ciary department are , indeed , more narrowly confined to their own proper sphere . Yet still the judges occasionally ...
... trial of peers , the house of lords sits as a grand court of trials for public offences . The powers of the judi- ciary department are , indeed , more narrowly confined to their own proper sphere . Yet still the judges occasionally ...
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... trial of impeachments . The gov- ernor , with the advice of the executive council , pos- sesses the power of appointment in general ; but the appointment of certain officers still belongs to the sen- ate and house of representatives ...
... trial of impeachments . The gov- ernor , with the advice of the executive council , pos- sesses the power of appointment in general ; but the appointment of certain officers still belongs to the sen- ate and house of representatives ...
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... trial ? Let us " view their different situations . The members of the " executive and judiciary departments are few in num- " ber , and can be personally known to a small part " only of the people . The latter , by. 1 The history of the ...
... trial ? Let us " view their different situations . The members of the " executive and judiciary departments are few in num- " ber , and can be personally known to a small part " only of the people . The latter , by. 1 The history of the ...
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... trials and punishments . Its rigid justice and impartiality give it no claims to favour , however they may to respect . It stands solitary and unsupported , except by that portion of public opinion , which is interested only in the ...
... trials and punishments . Its rigid justice and impartiality give it no claims to favour , however they may to respect . It stands solitary and unsupported , except by that portion of public opinion , which is interested only in the ...
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... trial . 2 § 549. It may not , therefore , be uninstructive to re- view some of the principal arguments , by which this division is vindicated . The first and most important ground is , that it forms a great check upon undue , hasty ...
... trial . 2 § 549. It may not , therefore , be uninstructive to re- view some of the principal arguments , by which this division is vindicated . The first and most important ground is , that it forms a great check upon undue , hasty ...
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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,