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... English nation had always asserted and enjoyed a suprem- acy over the surrounding or narrow seas , and that this claim had been recognized by all the neighboring nations . Sir Mat- thew Hale considered the title of the king to the ...
... English nation had always asserted and enjoyed a suprem- acy over the surrounding or narrow seas , and that this claim had been recognized by all the neighboring nations . Sir Mat- thew Hale considered the title of the king to the ...
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... English classics , has not dwelt with delight on the description of the extent and blessings of English commerce , which Addison has given , with such graceful simplicity and such enchanting ele- gance , in one of the Spectator's visits ...
... English classics , has not dwelt with delight on the description of the extent and blessings of English commerce , which Addison has given , with such graceful simplicity and such enchanting ele- gance , in one of the Spectator's visits ...
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... English and American law , that the penal laws of a country do not reach , in their disabilities , or penal effects , beyond the jurisdiction where they are established . Folliott v . Ogden , 1 H. Blacks . 123 , 135. Lord Ellenborough ...
... English and American law , that the penal laws of a country do not reach , in their disabilities , or penal effects , beyond the jurisdiction where they are established . Folliott v . Ogden , 1 H. Blacks . 123 , 135. Lord Ellenborough ...
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... English government was recalling its minister , and that single act was considered by France as a breach of the peace between the two countries . There was no other declaration of war , though each government afterwards published a ...
... English government was recalling its minister , and that single act was considered by France as a breach of the peace between the two countries . There was no other declaration of war , though each government afterwards published a ...
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... English * 58 merchants were treated by the enemy ; " and if our * mer- chants , " said the charter , " be safe and well treated there , theirs shall be likewise with us . " It has been deemed extraor- dinary , that such a liberal ...
... English * 58 merchants were treated by the enemy ; " and if our * mer- chants , " said the charter , " be safe and well treated there , theirs shall be likewise with us . " It has been deemed extraor- dinary , that such a liberal ...
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Page 328 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Page 509 - So, if a law be in opposition to the Constitution, if both the law and the Constitution apply to a particular case, so that the court must either decide that case conformably to the law, disregarding the Constitution, or conformably to the Constitution, disregarding the law, the court must determine which of these conflicting rules governs the case. This is of the very essence of judicial duty.
Page 674 - That the said report, with the Resolutions and Letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several Legislatures in order to be submitted to a Convention of Delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, in conformity to the Resolves of the Convention made and provided in that case.
Page 666 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 336 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity, where the matter in dispute exceeds, exclusive of costs, the sum or value of five hundred dollars, and the United States are plaintiffs or petitioners ; or an alien is a party, or the suit is between a citizen of the State where the suit is brought and a citizen of another State.
Page 478 - The sovereignty of a State extends to everything which exists by its own authority or is introduced by its permission ; b*ut does it extend to those means which are employed by Congress to carry into execution powers conferred on that body by the people of the United States ? We think it demonstrable that it does not.
Page 490 - It is not intended to say that these words comprehend that commerce which is completely internal, which is carried on between man and man in a state, or between different parts of the same state, and which does not extend to or affect other states. Such a power would be inconvenient, and is certainly unnecessary. Comprehensive as the word among is, it may very properly be restricted to that commerce which concerns more states than one.
Page 677 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 509 - Certainly all those who have framed written constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be, that an act of the Legislature, repugnant to the Constitution, is void.
Page 623 - No man shall be deprived of his liberty or property but by the judgment of his peers or the law of the land...