Legal arguments and speeches to the jury ; Diplomatic and official papers ; Miscellaneous lettersLittle, Brown and Company, 1853 - United States |
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... is as summary as the grant itself is ample ; for immediate confiscation , without seizure , trial , or judgment , is the penalty of infringement . In regard to these acts , I shall contend , THE CASE OF GIBBONS AND OGDEN . 7.
... is as summary as the grant itself is ample ; for immediate confiscation , without seizure , trial , or judgment , is the penalty of infringement . In regard to these acts , I shall contend , THE CASE OF GIBBONS AND OGDEN . 7.
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... regard to great commercial interests , are necessarily left with Congress alone . Of this character I consider monopolies of trade or navigation ; embargoes ; the system of navigation laws ; the countervailing laws , as against foreign ...
... regard to great commercial interests , are necessarily left with Congress alone . Of this character I consider monopolies of trade or navigation ; embargoes ; the system of navigation laws ; the countervailing laws , as against foreign ...
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... regard as a principal fallacy in the argument on the other side . That argument supposes , and insists , that the whole obligation of a contract has its origin in the municipal law . This position we controvert . We do not say that it ...
... regard as a principal fallacy in the argument on the other side . That argument supposes , and insists , that the whole obligation of a contract has its origin in the municipal law . This position we controvert . We do not say that it ...
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... regard to the law of the place ? Suppose the parties , after the contract , to remove to another State , do they carry the law with them as part of their contract ? We all know they do not . Or take a common case . Some States have laws ...
... regard to the law of the place ? Suppose the parties , after the contract , to remove to another State , do they carry the law with them as part of their contract ? We all know they do not . Or take a common case . Some States have laws ...
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... regard to future debts ; nor was it at all important , in a political point of view , to prohibit ten- der laws as to future debts , while it was yet left to the States to pass laws for the discharge of such debts , which , after all ...
... regard to future debts ; nor was it at all important , in a political point of view , to prohibit ten- der laws as to future debts , while it was yet left to the States to pass laws for the discharge of such debts , which , after all ...
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Page 547 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish 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...
Page 548 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish 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,...
Page 588 - 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 111 - States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 298 - Government to show a necessity of self-defence, instant, overwhelming, leaving no choice of means, and no moment for deliberation.
Page 365 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said treaty to be made public, to the end that the same, and every clause and article thereof, may be observed and fulfilled with good faith by the United States and the citizens thereof.
Page 573 - It is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it) is to take away the matter of them. For if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Page 151 - I have commanded you, and lo ! I am with you alway, even to the end of the world.
Page 364 - It is agreed that the United States and Her Britannic Majesty shall, upon mutual requisitions by them, or their Ministers, officers, or authorities, respectively made, deliver up to justice all persons who, being charged with the crime of murder, or assault with intent to commit murder, or piracy, or arson, or robbery, or forgery, or the utterance of forged paper, committed within the jurisdiction of either, shall seek an asylum or shall be found within the territories of the other...
Page 477 - I have received the letter which you did me the honor to address to me, under date of the...