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Page 2754
... question of jurisdiction which would arise within the limits of a State , it is , nevertheless , held to be of doubtful power and more than doubtful propriety , even within the limits of a Territory , for the General Government to ...
... question of jurisdiction which would arise within the limits of a State , it is , nevertheless , held to be of doubtful power and more than doubtful propriety , even within the limits of a Territory , for the General Government to ...
Page 2756
... question will feel with yearly increas- ing force the natural attraction of so vast , powerful , and prosperous a con- federation of self - governing republics and will seek the privilege of being admitted within its safe and happy ...
... question will feel with yearly increas- ing force the natural attraction of so vast , powerful , and prosperous a con- federation of self - governing republics and will seek the privilege of being admitted within its safe and happy ...
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... question of means and expediency will alone be left for consideration . The decision upon the principle in any one case determines it for the whole class . The question presented , therefore , clearly is upon the constitutionality and ...
... question of means and expediency will alone be left for consideration . The decision upon the principle in any one case determines it for the whole class . The question presented , therefore , clearly is upon the constitutionality and ...
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... question of power sometimes claimed for the General Government under the clause of the eighth section of the Constitution , which gives Congress the power " to lay and collect taxes , duties , imposts , and excises , to pay debts and ...
... question of power sometimes claimed for the General Government under the clause of the eighth section of the Constitution , which gives Congress the power " to lay and collect taxes , duties , imposts , and excises , to pay debts and ...
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... question under consideration , which , instead of aiding the claim to power exercised in this case , tend , it is believed , strongly to illustrate and explain positions which , even without such support , I can not regard as ...
... question under consideration , which , instead of aiding the claim to power exercised in this case , tend , it is believed , strongly to illustrate and explain positions which , even without such support , I can not regard as ...
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Page 2936 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 2964 - Measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void ; it being the true intent and meaning of this act not to legislate Slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude it therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 3210 - The Union is much older than the Constitution/ It was formed, in fact, by the Articles of Association in 1774. It was matured and continued by the Declaration of Independence in 1776. It was further matured, and the faith of all the then thirteen States expressly plighted and engaged that it should be perpetual, by the Articles of Confederation in 1778. And, finally, in 1787 one of the declared objects for ordaining and establishing the Constitution was "to form a more perfect Union.
Page 3213 - One section of our country believes slavery is right, and ought to be extended, while the other believes it is wrong, and ought not to be extended. This is the only substantial dispute.
Page 3214 - In your hands, my dissatisfied fellow-countrymen, and not in mine, is the momentous issue of civil war. The government will not assail you. You can have no conflict without being yourselves the aggressors. You have no oath registered in heaven to destroy the government, while I shall have the most solemn one to "preserve, protect, and defend it.
Page 3165 - Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in Congress assembled, on all questions which by this Confederation are submitted to them. And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every state ; and the Union shall be perpetual.
Page 3155 - 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.
Page 3155 - ... in a representative republic, where the executive magistracy is carefully limited, both in the extent and the duration of its power, and where the legislative power is exercised by an assembly which is inspired (by a supposed influence over the people) with an intrepid confidence in its own strength; which is sufficiently numerous to feel all the passions which actuate a multitude, yet not so numerous as to be incapable of pursuing the objects of its passions, by means which reason prescribes;...
Page 3076 - ... the endowment, support, and maintenance of at least one college, where the leading object shall be, without excluding other scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such branches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts, in such manner as the Legislatures of the States may respectively prescribe, in order to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.
Page 3208 - I have no purpose, directly or indirectly, to interfere with the institution of slavery in the States where it exists. I believe I have no lawful right to do so, and I have no inclination to do so.