The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1819 - Constitutional history |
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... party , and a general example was the best mode of securing liberal satisfaction . In course of this conversation , he mentioned , with an apology for omitting it before when he intended to do it , that a disavowal of Commodore Barron's ...
... party , and a general example was the best mode of securing liberal satisfaction . In course of this conversation , he mentioned , with an apology for omitting it before when he intended to do it , that a disavowal of Commodore Barron's ...
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... parties , and may perhaps assist you in repressing unjust suspicions imbibed by the British Cabinet . It would be happy for all parties , the belligerent as well as the U. States , if truth could , in this case , be made to prevail ...
... parties , and may perhaps assist you in repressing unjust suspicions imbibed by the British Cabinet . It would be happy for all parties , the belligerent as well as the U. States , if truth could , in this case , be made to prevail ...
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... party to the complicated and general warfare which agitates another quarter of the Globe for the purpose of obtaining a separate and particular object , however interesting to them . It may be intimated at the same time , that in the ...
... party to the complicated and general warfare which agitates another quarter of the Globe for the purpose of obtaining a separate and particular object , however interesting to them . It may be intimated at the same time , that in the ...
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... parties against any nation whose just and friendly conduct should leave them to their pacific cause . I have no doubt that the language he held with respect to manifestations of our friendship was the version made by his prudence of the ...
... parties against any nation whose just and friendly conduct should leave them to their pacific cause . I have no doubt that the language he held with respect to manifestations of our friendship was the version made by his prudence of the ...
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... party , you will have noticed , has made a considerable figure in the newspapers . Some of the Editors are resuming the old cant , and the others will doubtless soon follow the example . Nothing could exceed the folly of supposing that ...
... party , you will have noticed , has made a considerable figure in the newspapers . Some of the Editors are resuming the old cant , and the others will doubtless soon follow the example . Nothing could exceed the folly of supposing that ...
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Page 193 - ... have been in the continued practice of violating the American flag on the great highway of nations, and of seizing and carrying off persons sailing under it ; not in the exercise of a belligerent right, founded on the law of nations, against an enemy, but of a municipal prerogative over British subjects. British jurisdiction is thus extended to neutral vessels, in a situation where no laws can operate, but the law of nations, and the laws of the country to which the vessels belong...
Page 194 - They hover over and harass our entering and departing commerce. To the most insulting pretensions they have added the most lawless proceedings in our very harbors, and have wantonly spilt American blood within the sanctuary of our territorial jurisdiction.
Page 239 - ... sense, and the manly spirit of our fellow-citizens are pledges for the cheerfulness with which they will bear each his share of the common burden. To render the war short and its success sure, animated and systematic exertions alone are necessary, and the success of our arms now may long preserve our country from the necessity of another resort to them. Already have the gallant exploits of our naval heroes proved to the world our inherent capacity to maintain our rights on one element. If the...
Page 70 - I have it in express charge from the president to state, that while he forbears to insist on a further punishment of the offending officer, he is not the less sensible of the justice and utility of such an example, nor the less persuaded that it would best comport with what is due from his Britannic majesty to his own honor.
Page 50 - An act to interdict the commercial intercourse between the United States and Great Britain and France and their dependencies, and for other purposes...
Page 133 - Because the bill vests in the said incorporated church an authority to provide for the support of the poor and the education of poor children of the same, an authority which, being altogether superfluous if the provision is to be the result of pious charity, would be a precedent for giving to religious societies as such a legal agency in carrying into effect a public and civil duty.
Page 127 - While it is universally admitted that a well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people, and while it is evident that the means of diffusing and improving useful knowledge...
Page 200 - Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations, and these accumulating wrongs ; or, opposing force to force in defence of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of events...
Page 200 - Whether the United States shall continue passive under these progressive usurpations and these accumulating wrongs, or, opposing force to force in defense of their national rights, shall commit a just cause into the hands of the Almighty Disposer of Events, avoiding all connections which might entangle it in the contest or views of other powers, and preserving a constant readiness to concur in an honorable reestablishment of peace and friendship, is a solemn question which the Constitution wisely...