... constitutional and highly expedient; and there the duties are to be paid. And yet we live under a government of uniform laws and under a Constitution too which contains an express provision, as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the... Great American Legislators: Source Extracts - Page 73by Howard Walter Caldwell - 1900 - 247 pagesFull view - About this book
| History - 1857 - 650 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity ? If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...old confederation ? It is too plain to be argued. Four-and-t wenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself, and none... | |
| American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...aß it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity Î If there be no power to settle such questions, independent of either of tho States, is not the whole Union a rope of sand? Are we not thrown back again precisely upon the... | |
| Frank Moore - Orators - 1858 - 660 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity ? f a mi Fonr-and-t wenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself, and none... | |
| Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States ! Does not this approach absurdity ? If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...power to decide for itself, and none with authority to bind anybody else, and this constitutional law the only bond of their union ! What is such a state... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Death notices - 1859 - 662 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States ! Does not this approach absurdity ? If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...power to decide for itself, and none with authority to bind anybody else, and this constitutional law the only bond of their union ! What is such a state... | |
| Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 712 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity ? If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...precisely upon the old confederation ? It is too plain to he argued. Four-and-twenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself,... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1860 - 576 pages
...not this approach absurdity ? If there be no power to settle such questions, independent of cither of the States, is not the whole Union a rope of sand...power to decide for itself, and none with authority to bind anybody else, and this constitutional law the only bond of their union ! What is such a state... | |
| Daniel Webster - United States - 1860 - 576 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity ? If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...Four-and-twenty interpreters of constitutional law, «ach with a power to decide for itself, and none with authority to bind any body else, and this constitutional... | |
| Samuel Mosheim Smucker - Statesmen - 1861 - 576 pages
...thrown back again precisely upon the old Confederation ? It is too plain to be argued. Fouf-and-twenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself, and none with authority to bind anybody else, and this constitutional law the only bond of their union ! What is such a state... | |
| Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the States. Does not this approach absurdity ? . . If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...power to decide for itself, and none with authority to bind anybody else, and this constitutional law the only bond of their union! What is such a state of... | |
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