Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Volume 2 |
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... give to Congress " the sole and exclusive " power ; but the proposition was rejected by the vote of six States against five . Journal of Convention , 220 , 270 . deliberation , that the power is exclusive in the government CH . XV . ] 9 ...
... give to Congress " the sole and exclusive " power ; but the proposition was rejected by the vote of six States against five . Journal of Convention , 220 , 270 . deliberation , that the power is exclusive in the government CH . XV . ] 9 ...
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... give way . The case of Pennsylvania v . The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co. , 13 How . 515 , may be referred to as one of the cases presenting this view . The State of Pennsylvania filed its bill on the equity side of the federal court ...
... give way . The case of Pennsylvania v . The Wheeling and Belmont Bridge Co. , 13 How . 515 , may be referred to as one of the cases presenting this view . The State of Pennsylvania filed its bill on the equity side of the federal court ...
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... paid by the master , owner , or consignee for every such passenger . The master was also required to give bond to the mayor to save harm- such navigable streams or creeks , there would be little CH . XV . ] POWERS OF CONGRESS 15 COMMERCE .
... paid by the master , owner , or consignee for every such passenger . The master was also required to give bond to the mayor to save harm- such navigable streams or creeks , there would be little CH . XV . ] POWERS OF CONGRESS 15 COMMERCE .
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... give security that such person should not become a city , town , or State charge for ten years ; and a heavy penalty , was imposed on the master , owner , or consignee of the vessel for every person permitted to land contrary to the ...
... give security that such person should not become a city , town , or State charge for ten years ; and a heavy penalty , was imposed on the master , owner , or consignee of the vessel for every person permitted to land contrary to the ...
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... give every thing to Europe , without any equivalent ; and take , in return , whatever Europe may choose to give , upon its own terms ? The most servile pro- vincial dependence could not do more evils . Of what consequence would it be ...
... give every thing to Europe , without any equivalent ; and take , in return , whatever Europe may choose to give , upon its own terms ? The most servile pro- vincial dependence could not do more evils . Of what consequence would it be ...
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Page 382 - 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 4 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 101 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 643 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Page 67 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Page 325 - Article, of sending and receiving ambassadors; entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made, whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatsoever...
Page 633 - Britain. Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or to restrain this execrable commerce. And that this assemblage of horrors might want no fact of distinguished...
Page 698 - 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 180 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 605 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.