The Congressional GlobeBlair & Rives, 1833 - United States |
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... population and wealth , are dence . An act , commonly called the sinking fund act , abundantly sufficient to meet any debt which it may ever was passed by Congress near fifteen years ago , providing prudently contract , cannot be ...
... population and wealth , are dence . An act , commonly called the sinking fund act , abundantly sufficient to meet any debt which it may ever was passed by Congress near fifteen years ago , providing prudently contract , cannot be ...
Page 91
... population of tected and unprotected . Real and personal estate , cotton , thirteen millions , our tonnage is reduced to one million two hundred thousand ; and , going still further back , in the year 1800 , our exports amounted to ...
... population of tected and unprotected . Real and personal estate , cotton , thirteen millions , our tonnage is reduced to one million two hundred thousand ; and , going still further back , in the year 1800 , our exports amounted to ...
Page 161
... population of a thickly settled coun- abandoning the protective system , under the fatal delusion try can till all the lands of that country . The residue that the true policy of the country is that commerce must be idle if no other ...
... population of a thickly settled coun- abandoning the protective system , under the fatal delusion try can till all the lands of that country . The residue that the true policy of the country is that commerce must be idle if no other ...
Page 165
... population , and capital greatly accumulated , have equal the ad valorem duty upon this article from fifty to seventy facility in manufacturing various articles suited to our use ; per cent . It was determined in the negative - sixteen ...
... population , and capital greatly accumulated , have equal the ad valorem duty upon this article from fifty to seventy facility in manufacturing various articles suited to our use ; per cent . It was determined in the negative - sixteen ...
Page 199
... population will render us a manufacturing people ; the imposts will then necessarily lessen , and the public wants will call for new sources of revenue . " -- Id . p . 303 . " Mr. George Mason opposed the power to lay direct taxes ...
... population will render us a manufacturing people ; the imposts will then necessarily lessen , and the public wants will call for new sources of revenue . " -- Id . p . 303 . " Mr. George Mason opposed the power to lay direct taxes ...
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Page 471 - An Act to encourage the Importation of Pig and Bar Iron from his Majestie's Colonies in America, and to prevent the Erection of any Mill or other Engine for slitting or Rolling of Iron, or any plating Forge to work with a Tilt Hammer, or any Furnace for making Steel...
Page 103 - 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 449 - 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...
Page 449 - Constitution, that it rests on this legitimate and solid foundation. The States, then, being the parties to the Constitutional compact, and in their sovereign capacity, it follows of necessity...
Page 599 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 143 - Convention had adopted the clauses, no state shall "emit bills of credit," or "make any thing but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts,
Page 307 - 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 443 - The powers delegated by the proposed constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the state governments, are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce ; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected.
Page 449 - In the compound republic of America, the power surrendered by the people is first divided between two distinct governments, and then the portion allotted to each subdivided among distinct and separate departments. Hence a double security arises to the rights of the people. The different governments will control each other, at the same time that each will be controlled by itself.
Page 449 - 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.