A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 5 |
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Page 1824
... Constitution , and thus to present when most needed a rallying point by which the business of the whole country might be brought back to a safe and unvarying standard — a result vitally , important as well to the interests as to the ...
... Constitution , and thus to present when most needed a rallying point by which the business of the whole country might be brought back to a safe and unvarying standard — a result vitally , important as well to the interests as to the ...
Page 1825
... constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be per- formed without such a resort . It has , it is seen , been ... Constitution , and one also remarkable for the occurrence of extraordinary causes of expenditures . But to ...
... constitutional duties may certainly under such circumstances be per- formed without such a resort . It has , it is seen , been ... Constitution , and one also remarkable for the occurrence of extraordinary causes of expenditures . But to ...
Page 1826
... Constitution and the confidence they repose in the political sentiments of those they select as their representatives in the Federal Legislature ; the second rests upon the fidelity with which their more immediate representatives and ...
... Constitution and the confidence they repose in the political sentiments of those they select as their representatives in the Federal Legislature ; the second rests upon the fidelity with which their more immediate representatives and ...
Page 1828
... Constitution in a great measure originated , and there is too much reason to apprehend that the conflicting interests and opposing principles thus marshaled will continue as heretofore to produce similar if not aggravated consequences ...
... Constitution in a great measure originated , and there is too much reason to apprehend that the conflicting interests and opposing principles thus marshaled will continue as heretofore to produce similar if not aggravated consequences ...
Page 1831
... constitutional powers of the General Govern . ment to repair private losses sustained by reverses in business having ... Constitution or an ingenious perversion of its words , I have endeavored to avoid recommending any measure which I ...
... constitutional powers of the General Govern . ment to repair private losses sustained by reverses in business having ... Constitution or an ingenious perversion of its words , I have endeavored to avoid recommending any measure which I ...
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Page 1979 - And that all disputes which might arise in future on the subject of the Boundaries of the said United States may be prevented, it is hereby agreed and declared, that the following are and shall be their Boundaries, viz., from the North-west Angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that Angle which is formed by a line drawn due North, from the source of the St.
Page 1988 - ... from the northwest angle of Nova Scotia, viz., that angle which is formed by a line drawn due north from the source of St. Croix River to the highlands; along the said highlands which divide those rivers that empty themselves into the river St. Lawrence, from those which fall into the Atlantic Ocean...
Page 1979 - Lawrence from those which fall into the Atlantic ocean, to the northwesternmost head of Connecticut river, thence down along the middle of that river to the forty-fifth degree of north latitude...
Page 2108 - An act to appropriate the proceeds of the sales of the public lands, and to grant preemption rights...
Page 1980 - Ocean; east, by a line to be drawn along the middle of the River St. Croix, from its mouth in the Bay of Fundy to its source, and from its source directly north to the aforesaid high lands, which divide the rivers that fall into the Atlantic Ocean from those which fall into the river St. Lawrence...
Page 1866 - Waiving the question of the constitutional authority of the Legislature to establish an incorporated bank as being precluded in my judgment by repeated recognitions under varied circumstances of the validity of such an institution in acts of the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the Government, accompanied by indications, in different modes, of a concurrence of the general will of the nation...
Page 1979 - Cataraquy; thence along the middle of said river into Lake Ontario; through the middle of said lake until it strikes the communication by water between that lake and Lake Erie; thence along the middle of said communication into Lake Erie, through the middle of said lake until it arrives at the water communication between that lake and Lake Huron; thence along the middle of said water communication into the Lake Huron, thence through the middle of said lake to the water communication between that...
Page 1952 - President to give, from time to time, to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...