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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... parties . " Why these dark , obscure , and unintelligible expressions ? Is a consideration a " definitive rule ? " The ... party . We shall then stand justified in the eyes of the world , and to ourselves , not only to take , but keep ...
... parties . " Why these dark , obscure , and unintelligible expressions ? Is a consideration a " definitive rule ? " The ... party . We shall then stand justified in the eyes of the world , and to ourselves , not only to take , but keep ...
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... party , the representative of the sovereignty to whom France will alone look , he ought to possess the power of fulfilling our part of the contract . Gentlemen , indeed , had doubted , on a former occasion , the propriety of giving the ...
... party , the representative of the sovereignty to whom France will alone look , he ought to possess the power of fulfilling our part of the contract . Gentlemen , indeed , had doubted , on a former occasion , the propriety of giving the ...
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... party , who had in the meantime become a bona fide purchaser ? Shall one nation give to another a written , formal evidence of transfer of territory , and revoke it at pleasure , especially after a third shall have been tempted and ...
... party , who had in the meantime become a bona fide purchaser ? Shall one nation give to another a written , formal evidence of transfer of territory , and revoke it at pleasure , especially after a third shall have been tempted and ...
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... party to stay a fulfilment of any and every part of it . No principle in the law of nations respecting the construction of treaties , is better settled , than that every article of a treaty is a consideration for every other article ...
... party to stay a fulfilment of any and every part of it . No principle in the law of nations respecting the construction of treaties , is better settled , than that every article of a treaty is a consideration for every other article ...
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... party factions or of domestic tyranny . They not only understand the true theory of a free government , but as well understand a much rarer thing , the true art of practising it . Had a great nation be- yond the Atlantic , so often ...
... party factions or of domestic tyranny . They not only understand the true theory of a free government , but as well understand a much rarer thing , the true art of practising it . Had a great nation be- yond the Atlantic , so often ...
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