Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States: With a Preliminary Review of the Constitutional History of the Colonies and States Before the Adoption of the Constitution, Band 2Little, Brown, 1873 - 737 Seiten |
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... fact deemed of the highest importance by Chief Justice Taney in the Wheeling Bridge case , -nor was there any legislation of Congress which could be regarded as in conflict with the State law , discussion . If Congress , in regulating ...
... fact deemed of the highest importance by Chief Justice Taney in the Wheeling Bridge case , -nor was there any legislation of Congress which could be regarded as in conflict with the State law , discussion . If Congress , in regulating ...
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... fact that the party contesting the validity of the State law had procured a coasting license under the laws of Congress , he adds : — " The fact of procuring from the collector of the port of Bangor a license to prose- cute the coasting ...
... fact that the party contesting the validity of the State law had procured a coasting license under the laws of Congress , he adds : — " The fact of procuring from the collector of the port of Bangor a license to prose- cute the coasting ...
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... fact impose duties for objects wholly distinct from commerce . The question comes to this , whether a power exclusively for the regu- lation of commerce is a power for the regulation of manufactures ? The statement of such a question ...
... fact impose duties for objects wholly distinct from commerce . The question comes to this , whether a power exclusively for the regu- lation of commerce is a power for the regulation of manufactures ? The statement of such a question ...
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... fact , that there were but seventy - five post - offices established in all the United States in the year 1789 ; that the whole amount of postage in 1790 was only $ 37,935 ; and the number of miles travelled by the mails only 1,875.2 ...
... fact , that there were but seventy - five post - offices established in all the United States in the year 1789 ; that the whole amount of postage in 1790 was only $ 37,935 ; and the number of miles travelled by the mails only 1,875.2 ...
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... fact , if true , that Congress have not hitherto made any roads for the carrying of the mail , would not affect the right or touch the question . It is not doubted that the power is prop- erly carried into effect by making certain State ...
... fact , if true , that Congress have not hitherto made any roads for the carrying of the mail , would not affect the right or touch the question . It is not doubted that the power is prop- erly carried into effect by making certain State ...
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Seite 101 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Seite 664 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law; a law which hears before it condemns; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial.
Seite 669 - The only freedom which deserves the name, is that of pursuing our own good in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Seite 643 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize, or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Seite 67 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.
Seite 698 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Seite 640 - A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved, I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other. Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it, and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in the course of ultimate extinction; or its advocates will push...
Seite 605 - God, and for the support and maintenance of public protestant teachers of piety, religion and morality, in all cases where such provision shall not be made voluntarily.
Seite 4 - Commerce undoubtedly is traffic, but it is something more; it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Seite 125 - Can such things be, And overcome us like a summer's cloud, Without our special wonder?