History of the Republic of the United States of America: As Traced in the Writings of Alexander Hamilton and of His Contemporaries ...D. Appleton, 1859 |
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Stran 373 - end of thirty-four years. If it be enforced longer, it is an act of force, and not of » right."!!! ' " At first blush it may be laughed at, as the dream of a theorist; but, examination will prove it to be solid and salutary." " It would furnish matter for a fine preamble to our first law for appropriating the public Revenue.
Stran 498 - for a change which he believed possible, and to let it come on, with as little shock as might be to the public mind." It will not escape observation that while such a motive is suggested, he relates, as to Hamilton, according to him, a principal sharer in this purpose, that he
Stran 455 - x. 98. f Ibid., vi. 204. scarcely obtain a reading. To set the slaves afloat at once, would, I really believe, be productive of much inconvenience and mischief; but, by degrees, it certainly might, and assuredly ought to be effected; and that too by legislative authority.
Stran 246 - case, because their power does not extend to every case. " The clause which declares, that the Constitution and the laws of the United States made in pursuance of it, and all treaties made under their authority, shall be the Supreme law of the
Stran 433 - comprehended in giving information to Congress of the state of the Union; in recommending to their consideration such measures as he shall judge expedient; in convening them or either branch, upon extraordinary occasions; in adjourning them, when they cannot themselves agree upon the time of adjournment ; in receiving ambassadors and other
Stran 551 - buried for centuries with its kindred principles, of the lawfulness of assassination, poison, perjury, etc. » * • Let us hope that our new Government will take some other occasion to show, that they mean to proscribe no virtue from the canons of their conduct with nations. In every other instance, the new Government has ushered itself to the world
Stran 497 - the coat worn over the blade, and appearing from under the folds, behind ; the scabbard of white polished leather. He stood always in front of the fireplace, with his face towards the door of entrance. The visitor was conducted to him ; and he required to have the name so distinctly pronounced that he could hear it. He
Stran 247 - sovereign. To erect corporations, is an incident of sovereign power; and consequently to that of the United States, in relation to the objects intrusted to their management. Thus, where the authority of the Government is general—it can create corporations, in all cases;
Stran 448 - them together, he writes—" At this day, after the lapse of twenty-five years or more, from their dates, I have given to the whole a calm revisal, when the passions of the time are passed nway, and the reasons of the transactions rest alone on the judgment. Some of the informations I had recorded,
Stran 241 - put them out of the reach of forfeiture and escheat, and so far was against the laws of distribution— and, to give them the sole and exclusive right of banking under the National authority, and so far was against the laws of monopoly. That the foundation of the Constitution was laid on the ground of the twelfth amendment to