The True Republican: Containing the Inaugural Addresses, Together with the First Annual Addresses and Messages of All the Presidents of the United States, from 1789 to 1841, Together with Their Farewell Addresses, and Illustrated with the Portrait of Each of the Presidents. To which is Annexed the Declaration of Independence and Constitution of the United States. Also, the Constitutions of Many of the Most Important States in the UnionD. Richardson, 1841 - 456 Seiten |
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... prescribed by the laws , and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property . I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state , with particular reference to the founding of ...
... prescribed by the laws , and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property . I have already intimated to you the danger of parties in the state , with particular reference to the founding of ...
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... prescribed in it ; if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual states , and a con- stant caution and delicacy towards the state governments ; if an equal and impartial regard to the rights , interest , honor , and ...
... prescribed in it ; if a respectful attention to the constitutions of the individual states , and a con- stant caution and delicacy towards the state governments ; if an equal and impartial regard to the rights , interest , honor , and ...
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... prescribed by these grants of power . To conciliate the claim of the indi- vidual citizen to the enjoyment of personal liberty , with the effective obligation of private contracts , is the difficult problem to be solved by a law of ...
... prescribed by these grants of power . To conciliate the claim of the indi- vidual citizen to the enjoyment of personal liberty , with the effective obligation of private contracts , is the difficult problem to be solved by a law of ...
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... both branches of our military service , are so plainly prescribed by prudence that I should be excused for omitting their mention , sooner than enlarging on their importance . But the bulwark of 11 * JACKSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS . 125.
... both branches of our military service , are so plainly prescribed by prudence that I should be excused for omitting their mention , sooner than enlarging on their importance . But the bulwark of 11 * JACKSON'S INAUGURAL ADDRESS . 125.
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... prescribed by Congress . There is no constitutional , conventional , or legal provision , which allows them less power over the Indians within their bor- ders , than is possessed by Maine or New York . Would the people of Maine permit ...
... prescribed by Congress . There is no constitutional , conventional , or legal provision , which allows them less power over the Indians within their bor- ders , than is possessed by Maine or New York . Would the people of Maine permit ...
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Seite 27 - 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.
Seite 12 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Seite 25 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name...
Seite 29 - Hence, frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity and adopts through passion what reason would reject ; at other times it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
Seite 30 - As avenues to foreign influence in innumerable ways, such attachments are particularly alarming to the truly enlightened and independent patriot. How many opportunities...
Seite 28 - The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate. To facilitate to them the performance...
Seite 348 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Seite 23 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
Seite 349 - ... best which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and that...
Seite 420 - That the printing presses shall be free to every person who undertakes to examine the proceedings of the legislature or any branch of government : and no law shall ever be made to restrain the right thereof. The free communication of thoughts .and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man ; and every citizen may freely speak, write and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.