The Constitutional and Political History of the United States: 1828-1846. Jackson's administration-Annexation of Texas. 1888Callaghan, 1879 |
Druge izdaje - Prikaži vse
Pogosti izrazi in povedi
abolition of slavery abolitionism abolitionists administration annexation annexation of Texas bank Benton bill branch banks Buren cabinet Calhoun candidate cause citizens claim Clay Clay's committee Congr congress considered constitution convention Corresp decision declared demanded democratic democratic party District duty election electoral endeavored England entirely executive expressed fact favor federal hand Harrison house of representatives hundred Ibid Indians interest J. Q. Adams Jackson John Quincy Adams land legislative legislature letter loco-focos Lord Aberdeen majority means ment Mexican Mexico moral negroes Niles nomination obliged opinion opposition party persons petition political politicians president principle Priv protection provisions reason relation resolution secretary Seminoles senate slave slaveholding slavery question slavocracy South Carolina southern speech Statesm.'s tariff territory Texan Texas things tion treasury treaty Tyler Union United veto Virginia vote Webster whig party whigs whole wished York
Priljubljeni odlomki
Stran 429 - I AM the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, and out of the house of bondage.
Stran 441 - American army, shall be considered as a common fund for the use and benefit of such of the United States as have become, or shall become members of the confederation...
Stran 245 - That all petitions, memorials, resolutions, propositions or papers, relating in any way, or to any extent whatever, to the subject of slavery, or the abolition of slavery, shall, without being either printed or referred, be laid upon the table, and that no further action whatever shall be had thereon.
Stran 263 - Representatives, to take into consideration what disposition should be made of petitions and memorials for the abolition of slavery and the slave trade, in the District of Columbia, and report thereon.
Stran 68 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Stran 50 - ... when the laws undertake to add to these natural and just advantages artificial distinctions, to grant titles, gratuities, and exclusive privileges, to make the rich richer and the potent more powerful, the humble members of society — the farmers, mechanics, and laborers — who have neither the time nor the means of securing like favors to themselves, have a right to complain of the injustice of their Government.
Stran 254 - No Indian tribe in exercising powers of self-government shall — (1) make or enforce any law prohibiting the free exercise of religion, or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and to petition for a redress of grievances...
Stran 48 - ... would have been to change entirely the character of the instrument and give it the properties of a legal code. It would have been an unwise attempt to provide, by immutable rules, for exigencies, which, if foreseen at all, must have been seen dimly, and which can be best provided for as they occur. To have declared that the best means shall not be used, but those alone without which the power given would be nugatory, would have been to deprive the legislature of the capacity to avail itself of...
Stran 588 - Prudence, therefore, seems to dictate that we should still stand aloof, and maintain our present attitude, if not until Mexico itself, or one of the great foreign powers, shall recognise the independence of the new Government, at least until the lapse of time or the course of events shall have proved, beyond cavil or dispute, the ability of the people of that country to maintain their separate sovereignty, and to uphold the government constituted by them.
Stran 201 - ... Congress any specific plan for regulating the exchanges of the country, relieving mercantile embarrassments, or interfering with the ordinary operations of foreign or domestic commerce, it is from a conviction that such measures are not within the Constitutional province of the General Government, and that their adoption would not promote the real and permanent welfare of those they might be designed to aid.