A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, 1789-1897: Appendix. Index

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Stran 350 - and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against
Stran 350 - lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas
Stran 326 - the Constitution of the country, the Union of the States, and the enforcement of the laws." In the election it carried 3 States—Kentucky, Tennessee, and Virginia. Constitutionalists.—Л political party in Pennsylvania which under the constitution of 17761790 favored the maintenance of that instrument as
Stran 292 - Resolutions of.—Mar. 28, 1834, after 3 months' debate over an attempt to impeach Andrew Jackson, Congress 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
Stran 161 - have, in the destruction of a United States battle ship, with 266 of its officers and crew, while on a friendly visit in the harbor of Havana, and can not longer be endured, as has been set forth by the President of the United States in his message to Congress of April 11,
Stran 427 - of every state ought to contribute to the support of the government as nearly as possible in proportion to their respective abilities— that is, in proportion to the revenues which they respectively enjoy under the protection of the state." In pursuance of this principle all incomes should be taxed, but it is generally conceded among the advocates of such a tax that incomes
Stran 518 - States and Great Britain hereby declare that neither the one nor the other will obtain or maintain for itself any exclusive control over the said canal." The canal is to be neutral in case of war, except that vessels of powers at war with any of the Central American Republics shall be refused transit.
Stran 635 - territory to be ceded to the United States "shall be settled and formed into distinct republican States, which shall become members of the Federal Union and have the same rights of sovereignty, freedom, and independence as the other States." The Northwest Territory was organized in 1787, the Southwest in 1790. An organized Territory has a governor, appointed by the President, by and with
Stran 564 - members of the Cabinet in the following order: Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of War, Attorney-General, PostmasterGeneral, Secretary of the Navy, and Secretary of the Interior. The following Vice-Presidents have succeeded to the Presidency on account of the death of the President; John Tyler, Millard Fillmore, Andrew Johnson,
Stran 501 - under an act of Congress approved Mar. 3, 1863. It was self-created and retains autonomous powers, but derives national character from the provision in the article of incorporation that "the academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to

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