A Study in Alexander Hamilton

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Neale publishing Company, 1911 - 171 strani
 

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Stran 96 - States, reserving to the States respectively the appointment of the officers and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress; 17. To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the Government of the United States...
Stran 160 - Nor does this conclusion by any means suppose a superiority of the judicial to the legislative power. It only supposes that the power of the people is superior to both ; and that where the will of the legislature, declared in its statutes, stands in opposition to that of the people, declared in the Constitution, the judges ought to be governed by the latter rather than the former. They ought to regulate their decisions by the fundamental laws rather than by those which are not fundamental.
Stran 159 - It is far more rational to suppose, that the courts were designed to be an intermediate*") body between the people and the legislature, in order, among/ other things, to keep the latter within the limits assigned to their authority.
Stran 95 - To constitute tribunals inferior to the supreme court : "10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations : ' ' 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water : "12.
Stran 158 - The complete independence of the courts of justice is peculiarly essential in a limited constitution. By a limited constitution I understand one which contains certain specified exceptions to the legislative authority; such for instance as that it shall pass no bills of attainder, no ex post facto laws, and the like.
Stran 2 - Observations on Certain Documents contained in No. v. and vi. of 'The History of the United States for the Year 1796,' in which the charge of speculation against Alexander Hamilton, late Secretary of the Treasury, is fully refuted. Written by Himself."— EDS.
Stran 95 - Indian tribes ; 4 To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States ; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures ; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Stran 102 - No man's ideas were more remote from the plan than his own were known to be ; but is it possible to deliberate between anarchy, and convulsion, on one side, and the chance of good to be expected from the plan, on the other?
Stran 113 - It has been several times truly remarked that bills of rights are, in their origin, stipulations between kings and their subjects, abridgments of prerogative in favor of privilege, reservations of rights not surrendered to the prince.

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