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... Constitutional Treasury established . - Discussions in the Constitu- tional Convention -Pablic Debt of the United States . - Proposed Tax upon Tea and Coffee . 307 CHAPTER XI Internal Improvements . - Contest between Congress and the ...
... Constitutional Treasury established . - Discussions in the Constitu- tional Convention -Pablic Debt of the United States . - Proposed Tax upon Tea and Coffee . 307 CHAPTER XI Internal Improvements . - Contest between Congress and the ...
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... constitution , which was then quite delicate , came near giving way under the toil and fatigue to which he was exposed . Yielding to the persuasions of his son , Major Polk enabled him to enter the college at Chapel Hill , North Carolina.
... constitution , which was then quite delicate , came near giving way under the toil and fatigue to which he was exposed . Yielding to the persuasions of his son , Major Polk enabled him to enter the college at Chapel Hill , North Carolina.
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... constitution . It was in his canvasses that he exhibited all the resources of his mind . Disaster only had the effect of arousing his powers , and stimulated him to win victory where others were subdued by defeat . Three times he ...
... constitution . It was in his canvasses that he exhibited all the resources of his mind . Disaster only had the effect of arousing his powers , and stimulated him to win victory where others were subdued by defeat . Three times he ...
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... Constitution , and the grants of power shown therein , ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and ... Constitution does not confer upon the Federal Govern ment the power to commence and carry on a general system of interna ...
... Constitution , and the grants of power shown therein , ought to be strictly construed by all the departments and ... Constitution does not confer upon the Federal Govern ment the power to commence and carry on a general system of interna ...
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... Constitution ; and that we are opposed to the law lately adopted , and to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States , as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitution . Resolutions were also adopted ...
... Constitution ; and that we are opposed to the law lately adopted , and to any law for the distribution of such proceeds among the States , as alike inexpedient in policy and repugnant to the Constitution . Resolutions were also adopted ...
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Page 272 - Those who shall prefer to remain in the said territories, may either retain the title and rights of Mexican citizens, or acquire those of citizens of the United States. But they shall be under the obligation to make their election within one year from the date of the exchange of ratifications of this treaty; and those who shall remain in the said territories after the expiration of that year, without having declared their intention to retain the character of Mexicans, shall be considered to have...
Page 42 - ... the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the coast as far as the point of intersection of the 141st. degree of west longitude (of the same meridian) ; and, finally, from the said point of intersection, the said meridian line of the 141st. degree, in its prolongation as far as the Frozen Ocean, shall form the limit between the Russian and British possessions on the continent of America to the north-west.
Page 270 - ... river Gila (or if it should not intersect any branch of that river, then to the point on the said line nearest to such branch, and thence in a direct line to the same) ; thence down the middle of the said branch and of the said river until it empties into the Rio Colorado; thence across the Rio Colorado, following the division line between Upper and Lower California, to the Pacific Ocean.
Page 284 - ... to the point where it strikes the southern boundary of New Mexico; thence, westwardly, along the whole southern boundary of New Mexico (which runs north of the town called Paso) to its western termination; thence, northward, along the western line of New Mexico, until it intersects the first branch of the river Gila...
Page 284 - The boundary line between the two republics shall commence in the gulf of Mexico, three leagues from land, opposite the mouth of the Rio Grande, otherwise called Rio Bravo del Norte, or opposite the mouth of its deepest branch, if it should have more than one branch emptying directly into the sea : from thence up the middle of that river...
Page 38 - The two high contracting parties agree to cede and renounce all their rights, claims -and pretensions, to the territories described by the said line, that is to say: the United States hereby cede to his Catholic Majesty, and renounce forever, all their rights, claims, and pretensions, to the territories lying west and south...
Page 17 - Constitution ; that all efforts of the abolitionists or others, made to induce Congress to interfere with questions of slavery, or to take incipient steps in relation thereto, are calculated to lead to the most alarming and dangerous consequences ; and that all such efforts have an inevitable tendency to diminish the happiness of the people, and endanger the stability and permanency of the Union, and ought not to be countenanced by any friend of our political institutions.
Page 17 - That Congress has no power under the Constitution, to interfere with or control the domestic institutions of the several States, and that such States are the sole and proper judges of everything appertaining to their own affairs, not prohibited by the Constitution...
Page 274 - XIII The United States engage, moreover, to assume and pay to the claimants all the amounts now due them, and those hereafter to become due, by reason of the claims already liquidated and decided against the Mexican Republic, under the conventions between the two republics severally concluded on the eleventh day of April, eighteen hundred and thirty-nine...
Page 286 - ... but if any officer shall break his parole, or any other prisoner shall escape from the limits of his cantonment, after they shall have been designated to him...