 The act (concerning aliens) is said to be unconstitutional, because to remove aliens is a direct breach of the Constitution, which provides, by the 9th section of the 1st article, that the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States...  Documents of the Senate of the State of New York - Page 35by New York (State). Legislature. Senate - 1833Full view - About this book
 | History - 1857 - 642 pages
...articles which restrict the powers of Congress, and declares, " that the emigration or importation of e court than the jury ? Has either party a right to substitute the court be prohibited prior to the year 1808." Now, sir, where is the difference between a power to prevent... | |
 | American Orators - 1857 - 656 pages
...articles which restrict the powers of Congress, and declares, " that the emigration or importation of such persons as any of the States shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808.' Now, sir, where is the difference between a power to prevent... | |
 | Frank Moore - Speeches, addresses, etc., American - 1859 - 656 pages
...articles which restrict the powers of Congress, and declares, " that the emigration or importation of snch persons as any of the States shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808." Now, sir, where is the difference between a power to prevent... | |
 | Edward Ely Dunbar - Mexico - 1861 - 124 pages
...as long after as Congress might allow. The Constitution does not say the migration or importation of such persons as any of the States shall think proper to admit, shall he prohibited by Congress prior to the year 1808, etc., but it says, " shall not be prohibited,* etc.... | |
 | Stephen D. Carpenter - Antislavery movements - 1864 - 360 pages
...Article — it is at the head of the Articles' which restrict the powers of Congress, and declares: ' "That the migration or importation of such persons...the States shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited prior to the year 1808. " FIVE HUNDRED POLITICAL TEXTS. the power to send them away as... | |
 | Furman Sheppard - 1865 - 340 pages
...any amendment which might be made before the year 1808. § 586. The former of those clauses declares that the migration or importation of such persons...the States shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by Congress prior to 1808 ; the- latter provides that no capitation or other direct tax... | |
 | James Alexander Hamilton - History - 1869 - 672 pages
...of the United States. Indeed, the clause addresses iUelfto the conscience of the States when it says such persons as any of the States shall " think proper to admit." Is there a word in this clause which sanctions or even refers to a right to purchase and hold property?... | |
 | Henry Adams - Bookplates - 1879 - 772 pages
...clause in the Constitution which debarred Congress from prohibiting "the emigration or importation of such persons as any of the States shall think proper to admit," and maintained that this provision, so far as it related to immigrants, would be defeated by the law,... | |
 | Constitutional history - 1881 - 668 pages
...the very words of the report " The act (concerning aliens) is said to be unconstitutional, because to remove aliens is a direct breach of the Constitution,...1st article, that the migration or importation of sue! persons as any of the states shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress... | |
 | John Jay - History - 1890 - 564 pages
...article has these words : "The migration or importation of such persons as any of the now existing States shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808. But a tax or duty may be imposed on such importations, not exceeding ten dollars for each person."... | |
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