An Argument on the Unconstitutionality of Slavery: Embracing an Abstract of the Proceedings of the National and State Conventions on this Subject |
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... danger that may arise either from external foes , or internal insurrections , without having any interest to prevent , if possible , our being thus called upon ? Has a foreign nation the same right to call upon us for such a purpose ...
... danger that may arise either from external foes , or internal insurrections , without having any interest to prevent , if possible , our being thus called upon ? Has a foreign nation the same right to call upon us for such a purpose ...
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... danger , excepting that those who should legislate for the country might be deceived in their course of action . ' No one , however , could have any cause to complain that his individual rights . were wrested from him , as the courts ...
... danger , excepting that those who should legislate for the country might be deceived in their course of action . ' No one , however , could have any cause to complain that his individual rights . were wrested from him , as the courts ...
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... danger which required centuries to reveal , and refused to sanction the introduction of negroes into Hispaniola , believing that the favorable climate would increase their numbers , and infallibly lead them to a successful revolt . A ...
... danger which required centuries to reveal , and refused to sanction the introduction of negroes into Hispaniola , believing that the favorable climate would increase their numbers , and infallibly lead them to a successful revolt . A ...
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... danger , he would give the smaller States the defensive weapons . But there is none from that quarter . The great danger to our general govern- ment is the great southern and northern interest of the continent being opposed to each ...
... danger , he would give the smaller States the defensive weapons . But there is none from that quarter . The great danger to our general govern- ment is the great southern and northern interest of the continent being opposed to each ...
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... danger arises from external or internal foes ; and , if he is not protected , either the government is founded in fraud , or it is of no use . And if it was not for the protection of the individual , and the better to secure the ...
... danger arises from external or internal foes ; and , if he is not protected , either the government is founded in fraud , or it is of no use . And if it was not for the protection of the individual , and the better to secure the ...
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Page 391 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it in the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 387 - No political dreamer was ever wild enough to think of breaking down the lines which separate the States, and of compounding the American people into one common mass.
Page 169 - Ruler of the universe in affording the people of the United States, in the course of his providence, an opportunity, deliberately and peaceably, without fraud or surprise, of entering into an explicit and solemn compact with each other, by assenting to and ratifying a new Constitution...
Page 53 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 415 - ... that narrow construction which, in support of some theory not to be found in the Constitution, would deny to the government those powers which the words of the grant, as usually understood, import, and which are' consistent with the general views and objects of the instrument; for that narrow construction, which would cripple the government, and render it unequal to the objects for which it is declared to be instituted, and to which the powers given, as fairly understood, render it competent;...
Page 389 - If any one proposition could command the universal assent of mankind, we might expect it would be this — that the government of the Union, though limited in its powers, is supreme within its sphere of action.
Page 148 - The truth is, after all the declamation we have heard, that the Constitution is itself, in every rational sense, and to every useful purpose, A BILL OF RIGHTS.
Page 390 - The result of the most careful and attentive consideration bestowed upon this clause is, that if it does not enlarge, it cannot be construed to restrain the powers of congress, or to impair the right of the legislature to exercise its best judgment in the selection of measures, to carry into execution the constitutional powers of the government.
Page 415 - As men, whose intentions require no concealment, generally employ the words, which most directly and aptly express the ideas they intend to convey ; the enlightened patriots, who framed our constitution, and the people, who adopted it, must be understood to have employed words in their natural sense, and to have intended, what they have said.
Page 146 - And if it be a just principle that every government ought to possess the means of executing its own provisions by its own authority it will follow that in order to the inviolable maintenance of that equality of privileges and immunities to which the citizens of the Union will be entitled, the national judiciary ought to preside in all cases in which one State or its citizens are opposed to another State or its citizens.