 ... 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
 | Sherwin Cody - Orators - 1904 - 566 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... | |
 | Oliver Joseph Thatcher - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1907 - 618 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 twenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself, and none... | |
 | Samuel Bannister Harding - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1909 - 570 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 twenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself, and none... | |
 | John Raymond Howard - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1910 - 362 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 of... | |
 | Marion Mills Miller - Civil rights - 1913 - 472 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 twenty interpreters of constitutional law, each with a power to decide for itself, and none... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 450 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 ! " ' Far from having left... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - Biography & Autobiography - 1914 - 446 pages
...as it happens, that all duties shall be equal in all the states. Does not this approach absurdity 1 If there be no power to settle such questions, independent...of sand? Are we not thrown back, again, precisely up<m the old Confederation ? It is too plain to be argued. Four-and-twenty interpreters of constitutional... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Edwin Percy Whipple - United States - 1914 - 786 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 of either of the States, is not the whole Union агоре ef sand? Are we not thrown back agaiu, precisely, upon the old Confederation ? It is too... | |
 | Frederic Austin Ogg - 1914 - 454 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 of either of the states, is not the wholeUniona rope of sand* Are we not thrownljacTiT'againTprecisely upon the old Confederation ? It... | |
 | Reinhold Klotz - German language - 1915 - 726 pages
...them? There can be no arbiter but the sword, revolution or civil war. Well did Mr. Webster say that "if there be no power to settle such questions independent of either of the States, the Union is a rope of sand." The conclusion of Union men down to the Civil War was that the Central... | |
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