Speeches of Gerrit Smith in Congress [1853-1854] |
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... Constitution , but that , by no possibility , could it be brought either into the Federal , or into a State , Constitution . 2d . That the right to the soil is as natural , absolute , and equal , as the right to the light and the air ...
... Constitution , but that , by no possibility , could it be brought either into the Federal , or into a State , Constitution . 2d . That the right to the soil is as natural , absolute , and equal , as the right to the light and the air ...
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... Constitution ? It is a national institution . If not made such by our organic law , it is , nevertheless , made such by the enactments of Congress , the decisions of the Judiciary , and the acquiescence of the American People . And did ...
... Constitution ? It is a national institution . If not made such by our organic law , it is , nevertheless , made such by the enactments of Congress , the decisions of the Judiciary , and the acquiescence of the American People . And did ...
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... Constitution which respects fugitives from service ; and it is on this clause that his question is based . Now , not to consume the time of the gentleman with any other reason for my denying that the word " service " in the Constitution ...
... Constitution which respects fugitives from service ; and it is on this clause that his question is based . Now , not to consume the time of the gentleman with any other reason for my denying that the word " service " in the Constitution ...
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... Constitution also shows , that it must be so . The Constitution declares the fact of the government of the Nation by itself ; and it also recognizes the fact of the government of a State by itself . But , nowhere , does it so much , as ...
... Constitution also shows , that it must be so . The Constitution declares the fact of the government of the Nation by itself ; and it also recognizes the fact of the government of a State by itself . But , nowhere , does it so much , as ...
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... Constitution — turns solely on the question , whether that paper is anti - slavery or pro - slavery . Again , in the light of this same fact , we see how absurd it is to claim , that there could , under the continued force of the French ...
... Constitution — turns solely on the question , whether that paper is anti - slavery or pro - slavery . Again , in the light of this same fact , we see how absurd it is to claim , that there could , under the continued force of the French ...
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Page 155 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 227 - I am a Jew. Hath not a Jew eyes? hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer, as a Christian is?
Page 206 - Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?
Page 295 - The pride of thine heart hath deceived thee, thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, whose habitation is high; that saith in his heart, Who shall bring me down to the ground ? 4 Though thou exalt thyself as the eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars, thence will I bring thee down, saith the LORD.
Page 174 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
Page 173 - There is a law above all the enactments of human codes — the same throughout the world, the same in all times...
Page 173 - It is the law written by the finger of God on the heart of man; and by that law unchangeable and eternal, while men despise fraud, and loathe rapine, and abhor blood, they will reject with indignation the wild and guilty fantasy, that man can hold property in man...
Page 227 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, — senses, affections, passions? Is he not fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same summer and winter as a Christian is?
Page 344 - Who hath woe ? who hath sorrow ? who hath contentions? who hath babbling? who hath wounds without cause ? who hath redness of eyes ? They that tarry long at the wine ; they that go to seek mixed wine.
Page 23 - ... do unto others as we would have others do unto us.