Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the ... Session of the ... Congress, Volume 1; Volume 8Gales & Seaton, 1833 - Law |
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... authority had not been given to any Senator on the floor , Mr. LOWRIE rose , and said that , strictly speaking , he he supposed it would be in order for the Secretary him- had no explanation to give . That to the charge , as he un- self ...
... authority had not been given to any Senator on the floor , Mr. LOWRIE rose , and said that , strictly speaking , he he supposed it would be in order for the Secretary him- had no explanation to give . That to the charge , as he un- self ...
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... authority , Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heav'n As makes the angels weep . " 66 Will gentlemen point out to me , if they can , the power which this Government possesses to adopt a system for the avowed purpose of encouraging ...
... authority , Plays such fantastic tricks before high Heav'n As makes the angels weep . " 66 Will gentlemen point out to me , if they can , the power which this Government possesses to adopt a system for the avowed purpose of encouraging ...
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... authority of to them would command their special attention . In the the Senate , in taking into their hands subjects which had expectation , but not so much in the expectation as in the been committed to the Committee on Manufactures ...
... authority of to them would command their special attention . In the the Senate , in taking into their hands subjects which had expectation , but not so much in the expectation as in the been committed to the Committee on Manufactures ...
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... authority . A review of the circumstances will account for the Senate to obtain the desired information in execu- for this omission . Let it be recollected that Colonel Lau- tive session , and then lay it before the public , if no objec ...
... authority . A review of the circumstances will account for the Senate to obtain the desired information in execu- for this omission . Let it be recollected that Colonel Lau- tive session , and then lay it before the public , if no objec ...
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... authority or agents . ” I take After reading the extracts , Mr. B. continued . the substance of this decision , Mr. President , to be- 1. That these branch bank orders are legal currency , under the charter of the Bank of the United ...
... authority or agents . ” I take After reading the extracts , Mr. B. continued . the substance of this decision , Mr. President , to be- 1. That these branch bank orders are legal currency , under the charter of the Bank of the United ...
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Page 457 - If in the opinion of the People, the distribution or modification of the Constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit which the use can at any...
Page 457 - Resolved, that the several States composing the United States of America, are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government; but that by compact under the style and title of a Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general...
Page 373 - Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences; consulting the natural course of things ; diffusing and diversifying, by gentle means, the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Page 107 - Still one thing more, fellow-citizens, a wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
Page 127 - ... statements of the amount of the capital stock of the said corporation and of the debts due to the same; of the moneys deposited therein; of the notes in circulation, and of the...
Page 457 - That the Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 607 - Congress, for the encouragement and promotion of such manufactories as will tend to render the United States independent of other nations for essential, particularly for military supplies" (Journal of the House, I, 141-42).
Page 457 - A just estimate of that love of power and proneness to abuse it which predominates in the human heart is sufficient to satisfy us of the truth of this position. The necessity of reciprocal checks in the exercise of political power, by dividing and distributing it into different depositories, and constituting each the guardian of the public weal against invasions by the -others, has been evinced by experiments ancient and modern, some of them in our country and under our own eyes. To preserve them...
Page 315 - The powers reserved to the several states will extend to all the objects, which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people: and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the state.
Page 583 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, among the several States, and with the Indian tribes.