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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... grant , or withhold supplies ; it can levy , or withdraw taxes ; it can un- nerve the power of the sword by striking down the arm , which wields it . § 531. De Lolme has said , with great emphasis , " It is , without doubt , absolutely ...
... grant , or withhold supplies ; it can levy , or withdraw taxes ; it can un- nerve the power of the sword by striking down the arm , which wields it . § 531. De Lolme has said , with great emphasis , " It is , without doubt , absolutely ...
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... grant but this truth , and the question is decided . If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interests , or that of their families , counties , and party , to that of the nation collectively , some provision must be ...
... grant but this truth , and the question is decided . If a majority are capable of preferring their own private interests , or that of their families , counties , and party , to that of the nation collectively , some provision must be ...
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... grants money ; the other branch ( the senate ) might , from mere state views , counteract it . In congress , the single state of Delaware prevented an embargo at the time , when all the other states thought it absolutely necessary for ...
... grants money ; the other branch ( the senate ) might , from mere state views , counteract it . In congress , the single state of Delaware prevented an embargo at the time , when all the other states thought it absolutely necessary for ...
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... grant of a power includes the authority to make it effectual , and also of self - preservation . §738 . The subject at that time attracted a good deal of discussion ; and was finally , as a practical in- quiry , put an end to in 1828 ...
... grant of a power includes the authority to make it effectual , and also of self - preservation . §738 . The subject at that time attracted a good deal of discussion ; and was finally , as a practical in- quiry , put an end to in 1828 ...
الصفحة 267
... grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in cases of impeachment ; thus showing , that im- peachable offences are deemed offences against the United States . If the senate may then declare , what are ...
... grant reprieves and pardons for offences against the United States , except in cases of impeachment ; thus showing , that im- peachable offences are deemed offences against the United States . If the senate may then declare , what are ...
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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,