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... decided in the Supreme Court of the United States ( 2 vols . , 4to ) An Analysis of Cases decided in the Supreme Court of the United States ( 1 vol . , 4to ) I can not refrain from asking your Lordships to consider how the subject has ...
... decided in the Supreme Court of the United States ( 2 vols . , 4to ) An Analysis of Cases decided in the Supreme Court of the United States ( 1 vol . , 4to ) I can not refrain from asking your Lordships to consider how the subject has ...
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... decided to throw in its lot with the other and larger States . The fourth article provided that the expenses of warfare , wars were to be just , offensive or defensive , " both in men , provisions , and all other disburse- ments ...
... decided to throw in its lot with the other and larger States . The fourth article provided that the expenses of warfare , wars were to be just , offensive or defensive , " both in men , provisions , and all other disburse- ments ...
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... decided in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 , approximately two years before the Articles of Confederation , making of them a perpetual Union , had gone into effect . The facts of this case are very interesting , in that one ...
... decided in the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania in 1779 , approximately two years before the Articles of Confederation , making of them a perpetual Union , had gone into effect . The facts of this case are very interesting , in that one ...
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... decided in 1824. ) In June 1776 , the Convention of Virginia formally declared , that Virginia was a free , sovereign , and independent state ; and on the 4th of July , 1776 , following , the United States , in Congress assembled ...
... decided in 1824. ) In June 1776 , the Convention of Virginia formally declared , that Virginia was a free , sovereign , and independent state ; and on the 4th of July , 1776 , following , the United States , in Congress assembled ...
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... decided in 1779 , the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania considered the States to form a body cor- porate from the moment of their association , so in Nathan v . Commonwealth of Virginia ( 1 Dallas , 77 , note ) , decided in the September ...
... decided in 1779 , the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania considered the States to form a body cor- porate from the moment of their association , so in Nathan v . Commonwealth of Virginia ( 1 Dallas , 77 , note ) , decided in the September ...
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Page 227 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall on the petition of either party to the congress of the united states, be finally determined as near as may be in the same manner as is before prescribed...
Page 44 - ... the United States, in Congress assembled. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor...
Page 170 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 401 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity...
Page 170 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 58 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 519 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
Page 498 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations as in their judgment require secresy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page 539 - If any person guilty of, or charged with, treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the governor or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 282 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.