Review of a Late Pamphlet, Under the Signature of "Brutus.": By Hamilton [pseud.].A review of Robert James Turnbull's The crisis: or Essays on the usurpations of the federal government. By Brutus [pseud.]. Charleston :printed by A. E. Miller, 1827. |
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... equally doubt , whether you conld find a depository for powers adequate to all beneficial purposes , in whose hands these powers could never , by any possibility be liable to abuse . Even you , I am inclined to think , must fail in an ...
... equally doubt , whether you conld find a depository for powers adequate to all beneficial purposes , in whose hands these powers could never , by any possibility be liable to abuse . Even you , I am inclined to think , must fail in an ...
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... equally honest , and intelligent - not a very unreasonable postulatum - and it is impos- sible not to admit , that the opinion is correct . NO . IX . We have not yet done with the subject of the National Bank . It is fruitful of ...
... equally honest , and intelligent - not a very unreasonable postulatum - and it is impos- sible not to admit , that the opinion is correct . NO . IX . We have not yet done with the subject of the National Bank . It is fruitful of ...
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... equally be held by the humblest citizen ; and all whose most solemn enactments are liable to be set aside , and declared utterly void , when not in accor- dance with those of the National Legislature ; all whose acts are declar- ed to ...
... equally be held by the humblest citizen ; and all whose most solemn enactments are liable to be set aside , and declared utterly void , when not in accor- dance with those of the National Legislature ; all whose acts are declar- ed to ...
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... equally so , that his own State should bear as little of the burden as possible . Thank Heaven , we now see little of all this , on the floor of Congress , at least . The change is most obvious ; and its cause , to my mind at least , ...
... equally so , that his own State should bear as little of the burden as possible . Thank Heaven , we now see little of all this , on the floor of Congress , at least . The change is most obvious ; and its cause , to my mind at least , ...
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... equally tenacious in retaining . There is an adequate motive for these opposite efforts on both sides . In such countries , if popular principles and popular rights have made any progress , it has been in the teeth of vigorous opposi ...
... equally tenacious in retaining . There is an adequate motive for these opposite efforts on both sides . In such countries , if popular principles and popular rights have made any progress , it has been in the teeth of vigorous opposi ...
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Page 105 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned ; and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various...
Page 16 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 17 - Whether this desirable object will be best promoted by affording aids to seminaries of learning already established, by the institution of a national university, or by any other expedients, will be well worthy of a place in the deliberations of the legislature.
Page 11 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 80 - While these states retained the power of making regulations of trade, they had the power to cherish such institutions. By adopting the present, constitution, they have thrown the exercise of this power into other hands ; they must have done this with an expectation...
Page 76 - Resolved, that the Articles of Confederation ought to be so corrected and enlarged as to accomplish the objects proposed by their institution ; namely, ' common defence, security of liberty, and general welfare.
Page 80 - States retained the power of making regulations of trade, they had the power to cherish such institutions. By adopting the present Constitution, they have thrown the exercise of this power into other hands ; they must have done this with an expectation that those interests would not be neglected here.
Page 105 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union to your collective and individual happiness...
Page 82 - The oppressions on our agriculture, in foreign ports, would thus be made the occasion of relieving it from a dependence on the councils and conduct of others, and of promoting arts, manufactures and population at home.
Page 91 - I think it both politic and just that the fostering hand of the general government should extend to all those manufactures which will tend to national utility.