The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States; with an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Compriing the Period from March 3, 1789 to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic Materials, Volume 13Gales and Seaton, 1852 - United States |
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... opinion of his constit- uents upon it . Mr. S. SMITH mentioned that the last choice of President had prepared the people to require the discrimination ; but the abolition of the office was If the choice of Vice President in the way ...
... opinion of his constit- uents upon it . Mr. S. SMITH mentioned that the last choice of President had prepared the people to require the discrimination ; but the abolition of the office was If the choice of Vice President in the way ...
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... opinion that , even if possession is rendered to us , the ter- ritory will come into our hands without any title to justify our holding it . Is there not on the face of this instrument itself some marks of suspicion ? You find in the ...
... opinion that , even if possession is rendered to us , the ter- ritory will come into our hands without any title to justify our holding it . Is there not on the face of this instrument itself some marks of suspicion ? You find in the ...
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... opinion were of any consequence , I should be attainment of this object , upon an avowal that it free to declare , that this transaction from its com- was too important to trust to the tardy and less mencement to its close , not only as ...
... opinion were of any consequence , I should be attainment of this object , upon an avowal that it free to declare , that this transaction from its com- was too important to trust to the tardy and less mencement to its close , not only as ...
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... opinion , it was not always so . The con- trary opinion is the only justification of that gen- tleman's approbation of the British Treaty , and of his vote for carrying it into effect . By that treaty a great number of persons had a ...
... opinion , it was not always so . The con- trary opinion is the only justification of that gen- tleman's approbation of the British Treaty , and of his vote for carrying it into effect . By that treaty a great number of persons had a ...
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... opinion by a silent vote , but on a question which affected the rights of the smaller States , ( one of which he had ... opinion . It is important that the Consti- tution should be stable and permanent as the stand- ard to direct that ...
... opinion by a silent vote , but on a question which affected the rights of the smaller States , ( one of which he had ... opinion . It is important that the Consti- tution should be stable and permanent as the stand- ard to direct that ...
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