The Writings of James Madison: 1808-1819G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1908 - Constitutional history |
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... . Erving this view of the subject , and I hope that you will have been thence enabled to present it to the French Government . Not relying however on that indirect oppor- tunity , I send by this another copy of the 1808 ] 13 JAMES MADISON .
... . Erving this view of the subject , and I hope that you will have been thence enabled to present it to the French Government . Not relying however on that indirect oppor- tunity , I send by this another copy of the 1808 ] 13 JAMES MADISON .
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... hope you will dispatch him in due time , and that he will bring from you communications equally ample and agreeable . The inclosed copy of a letter from the Secretary of War to me , together with the papers spoken of in it , will enable ...
... hope you will dispatch him in due time , and that he will bring from you communications equally ample and agreeable . The inclosed copy of a letter from the Secretary of War to me , together with the papers spoken of in it , will enable ...
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... hope that this might happen during the recess of Congress , the President is authorized , in such an event , to suspend in whole , or in part , the several Embargo laws . The conditions on which the authority is to be exercised appeal ...
... hope that this might happen during the recess of Congress , the President is authorized , in such an event , to suspend in whole , or in part , the several Embargo laws . The conditions on which the authority is to be exercised appeal ...
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... hope that the delay does not imply a final purpose of witholding reparation , and that the next communications from London will be of a different im- port . They must at least entertain the real views of the British Government on this ...
... hope that the delay does not imply a final purpose of witholding reparation , and that the next communications from London will be of a different im- port . They must at least entertain the real views of the British Government on this ...
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... hope of inducing on the part of France , a perseverance in her irri- tating policy towards the United States , and on the part of the latter , hostile resentments against it . If the British Government should have elected the more wise ...
... hope of inducing on the part of France , a perseverance in her irri- tating policy towards the United States , and on the part of the latter , hostile resentments against it . If the British Government should have elected the more wise ...
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Page 449 - Should Congress, in the execution of its powers, adopt measures which are prohibited by the Constitution; or should Congress, under the pretext of executing its powers, pass laws for the accomplishment of objects not entrusted to the Government...
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 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 194 - They hover over and VOL. VIII 13 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 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 48 - To cherish peace and friendly intercourse with all nations having correspondent dispositions; to maintain sincere neutrality toward belligerent nations; to prefer in all cases amicable discussion and reasonable accommodation of differences to a decision of them by an appeal to arms; to exclude foreign intrigues and foreign partialities, so degrading to all countries and so baneful to free ones...
Page 233 - I lay before Congress copies of a proclamation of the British lieutenant-governor of the island of Bermuda,1 which has appeared under circumstances leaving no doubt of its authenticity. It recites a British order in council of the 26th of October last, providing for the supply...
Page 173 - United States ; and none, perhaps, inducements equally persuasive to make the most of them. The particular undertaking contemplated by the State of New York, which marks an honorable spirit of enterprise and comprises objects of national as well as more limited importance, will recall the attention of Congress to the signal advantages to be derived to the United States from a general system of internal communication and conveyance ; and suggest to their consideration whatever steps may be proper,...
Page 200 - 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 '. I of peace and friendship, is a solemn question which the Constitution •wisely confides to...
Page 343 - Such an institution claims the patronage of Congress as a monument of their solicitude for the advancement of knowledge, without which the blessings of liberty can not be fully enjoyed or long preserved...