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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... proper to execute its delegated powers . United States v . Coombs , supra . The case of Gibbons v . Ogden should be considered in connection with the more recent case of Veazie v . Moor , 14 How . 568. In the former the laws of New York ...
... proper to execute its delegated powers . United States v . Coombs , supra . The case of Gibbons v . Ogden should be considered in connection with the more recent case of Veazie v . Moor , 14 How . 568. In the former the laws of New York ...
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... proper , however , to present it entire in its present connection . It is to the following effect : The Con- stitution is one of limited and enumerated powers ; and none of them can be rightfully exercised beyond the scope of the ...
... proper , however , to present it entire in its present connection . It is to the following effect : The Con- stitution is one of limited and enumerated powers ; and none of them can be rightfully exercised beyond the scope of the ...
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... proper of itself , but because it bore injuriously upon the commer- cial arrangements of other States . The want of uniformity in the regulations of commerce was a source of perpetual strife and dissatisfaction , of inequalities and ...
... proper of itself , but because it bore injuriously upon the commer- cial arrangements of other States . The want of uniformity in the regulations of commerce was a source of perpetual strife and dissatisfaction , of inequalities and ...
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... proper circulation of good coin of a known value in the home market . In order to secure it from debasement , it is necessary that it should be exclusively under the control and regulation of the government ; for if every individual ...
... proper circulation of good coin of a known value in the home market . In order to secure it from debasement , it is necessary that it should be exclusively under the control and regulation of the government ; for if every individual ...
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... proper and regular conveyance of letters was in 1642 , weekly , and on horseback , to every part of the kingdom . The present improved system by mail - coaches was not introduced until 1782. " [ The postal service , when this work was ...
... proper and regular conveyance of letters was in 1642 , weekly , and on horseback , to every part of the kingdom . The present improved system by mail - coaches was not introduced until 1782. " [ The postal service , when this work was ...
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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.