Reports of Cases Argued and Adjudged in the Supreme Court of the United States, Volume 44Published for John Conrad and Company, 1845 - Law reports, digests, etc |
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... Constitution ; one , that under it , there is a power to collect revenue for the sake of the revenue only ; the other , for protection . The act of 1833 was a compromise between these two . Each class was supposed to surrender something ...
... Constitution ; one , that under it , there is a power to collect revenue for the sake of the revenue only ; the other , for protection . The act of 1833 was a compromise between these two . Each class was supposed to surrender something ...
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... Constitution requires duties to be uni- form in all the ports . This very subject was the great objection to the Compromise Act . Ought it to have been left to the executive ? It is said , that the act of 1832 had so referred it . But ...
... Constitution requires duties to be uni- form in all the ports . This very subject was the great objection to the Compromise Act . Ought it to have been left to the executive ? It is said , that the act of 1832 had so referred it . But ...
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... Constitution and laws of the United States . The question presented to the officers of the United States was not whether the King of Spain could have arbitrarily annulled the grant to Mackay , but whether , at the date of the treaty ...
... Constitution and laws of the United States . The question presented to the officers of the United States was not whether the King of Spain could have arbitrarily annulled the grant to Mackay , but whether , at the date of the treaty ...
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... constitutional sovereigns , an absolute monarch ; but it is no less true , that in Spain and her colonies the rights of property were religiously respected and protected . The Recopilacion , the ' siete partidas ' under Spain ; the ...
... constitutional sovereigns , an absolute monarch ; but it is no less true , that in Spain and her colonies the rights of property were religiously respected and protected . The Recopilacion , the ' siete partidas ' under Spain ; the ...
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... Constitution of the United States . Mr. Justice MCLEAN delivered the opinion of the court . Thomas W. Dorr was convicted before the Supreme Court of Rhode Island , at March term , 1844 , of treason against the state of Rhode Island ...
... Constitution of the United States . Mr. Justice MCLEAN delivered the opinion of the court . Thomas W. Dorr was convicted before the Supreme Court of Rhode Island , at March term , 1844 , of treason against the state of Rhode Island ...
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Page 607 - No person demeaning himself in a peaceable and orderly manner, shall ever be molested on account of his mode of worship or religious sentiments, in the said territory.
Page 223 - 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 government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful 'buildings.
Page 34 - An act for ascertaining and adjusting the titles and claims to land within the Territory of Orleans and the District of Louisiana, ' shall have made their reports and the decision of Congress been had thereon.
Page 105 - And that either of the justices of the Supreme Court, as well as judges of the District Courts, shall have power to grant writs of habeas corpus, for the purpose of an inquiry into the cause of commitment.
Page 222 - And whenever any of the said states shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein, such state shall be admitted, by its delegates, into the Congress of the United States, on an equal footing with the original states, in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and state government...
Page 229 - It is the power to regulate; that is, to prescribe the rule by which commerce is to be governed. This power, like all others vested in Congress, is complete in itself, may be exercised to its utmost extent, and acknowledges no limitations other than are prescribed in the Constitution.
Page 221 - Virginia inclusive according to their usual respective proportions in the general charge and expenditure and shall be faithfully and bona fide disposed of for that purpose and for no other use or purpose whatsoever.
Page 313 - ... and to all acts, matters, and things to be done under and in virtue of the bankruptcy, until the final distribution and settlement of the estate of the bankrupt, and the close of the proceedings in bankruptcy.
Page 762 - Where a court has jurisdiction, it has a right to decide every question which occurs in the cause; and, whether its decision be correct or otherwise, its judgment, until reversed, is regarded as binding in every other court : but, if it act without authority, its judgments and orders are regarded as nullities. They are not voidable, but simply void.
Page 179 - The state governments have no right to tax any of the constitutional means employed by the government of the Union to execute its constitutional powers.