The Life of Hon. Nathaniel Chipman, LL. D.: Formerly Member of the United States Senate, and Chief Justice of the State of Vermont. With Selections from His Miscellaneous PapersC. C. Little and J. Brown, 1846 - 402 من الصفحات |
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... effects upon the intellect of the well - directed pursuit of religious knowledge are not inferior to those of literary and scientific pursuits , in cultivating those mental habits and powers , which are of the greatest importance in the ...
... effects upon the intellect of the well - directed pursuit of religious knowledge are not inferior to those of literary and scientific pursuits , in cultivating those mental habits and powers , which are of the greatest importance in the ...
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... effect . It created in the child an habit- ual submission to the will of his earthly parent- an important if not an indispensable preparation for an habitual obedience to the will of our heavenly Pa- rent . Children , too , were brought ...
... effect . It created in the child an habit- ual submission to the will of his earthly parent- an important if not an indispensable preparation for an habitual obedience to the will of our heavenly Pa- rent . Children , too , were brought ...
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... effect . Many individuals who had before favored the malecontents , were afterwards un- willing to be seen with them . JOURNAL OF THE WELLS CONVENTION , 1786 . Whereas the assembly of this state Have dared audaciously of late With ...
... effect . Many individuals who had before favored the malecontents , were afterwards un- willing to be seen with them . JOURNAL OF THE WELLS CONVENTION , 1786 . Whereas the assembly of this state Have dared audaciously of late With ...
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... effect . When it was his business to detect and expose fraud or oppression , he excelled as an advocate . But it was soon ob- served that he did not argue a bad cause as effect- ually as some others . And after I came to the bar I ...
... effect . When it was his business to detect and expose fraud or oppression , he excelled as an advocate . But it was soon ob- served that he did not argue a bad cause as effect- ually as some others . And after I came to the bar I ...
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... effect upon that body . " In the months of April and May following , the governor and council of Vermont commissioned Colonel Ira Allen , a brother of Ethan , to proceed to the Isle au Noix , to settle a cartel with the British in ...
... effect upon that body . " In the months of April and May following , the governor and council of Vermont commissioned Colonel Ira Allen , a brother of Ethan , to proceed to the Isle au Noix , to settle a cartel with the British in ...
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الصفحة 190 - An elective despotism was not the government we fought for; but one which should not only be founded on free principles, but in which the powers of government should be so divided and balanced among several bodies of magistracy as that no one could transcend their legal limits without being effectually checked and restrained by the others.
الصفحة 309 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
الصفحة 241 - Commentaries remarks, that this law of Nature being coeval with mankind, and dictated by God himself, is of course superior in obligation to any other. It is binding over all the globe, in all countries and at all times; no human laws are of any validity if contrary to this, and such of them as are valid, derive all their force, and all their validity, and all their authority, mediately and immediately, from this original...
الصفحة 189 - All the powers of government, legislative, executive, and judiciary, result to the legislative body. The concentrating these in the same hands is precisely the definition of despotic government. It will be no alleviation that these powers will be exercised by a plurality of hands, and not by a single one. One hundred and seventy-three despots would surely be as oppressive as one.
الصفحة 300 - ... the people forming one aggregate political community ; that the Constitution of the United States is in fact a compact, to which each state is a party, in the character already described...
الصفحة 356 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
الصفحة 306 - States; to coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; to provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States ; to establish post-offices and...
الصفحة 173 - Judicial offices, in point of duration ; and that so far from being blamable on this account, their plan would have been inexcusably defective, if it had wanted this important feature of good Government. The experience of Great Britain affords an illustrious comment on the excellence of the institution.
الصفحة 176 - The judges of the Supreme Court of Errors, of the superior and inferior courts, and all justices of the peace, shall be appointed by the General Assembly, in such manner as shall by law be prescribed.
الصفحة 175 - All judicial officers, duly appointed, commissioned, and sworn, shall hold their offices during good behavior, excepting such concerning whom there is different provision made in this constitution: provided, nevertheless, the governor, with consent of the council, may remove them upon the address of both houses of the legislature.