Text-book of Prose, from Burke, Webster, and Bacon, with Notes, and Sketches of the Authors' Lives, for Use in Schools and ClassesGinn, Heath, & Company, 1881 |
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Page 352
... banks of the same vast rivers . Two considerations at once pre- sented themselves , in looking at this state of things , with great force . One was , that that great branch of improvement which consisted in furnishing new facilities of ...
... banks of the same vast rivers . Two considerations at once pre- sented themselves , in looking at this state of things , with great force . One was , that that great branch of improvement which consisted in furnishing new facilities of ...
Page 353
... bank question , on the tariff of 1816 , and on the direct tax , will show who was who , and what was what , at that time . The tariff of 1816 ( one of the plain cases of oppression and usurpation , from which if the government does not ...
... bank question , on the tariff of 1816 , and on the direct tax , will show who was who , and what was what , at that time . The tariff of 1816 ( one of the plain cases of oppression and usurpation , from which if the government does not ...
Page 398
... in which any President would have been tolerated in asserting such a claim to despotic power . It is no bank to be created , it is no law proposed to be passed , which the President denounces ; it is the 398 WEBSTER .
... in which any President would have been tolerated in asserting such a claim to despotic power . It is no bank to be created , it is no law proposed to be passed , which the President denounces ; it is the 398 WEBSTER .
Page 399
... bank is not a law . The bank has no legal existence ; it is not responsible to government ; it has no authority to act ; it is incapable of being an agent ; the President may treat it as a nullity , to - morrow ; withdraw from it all ...
... bank is not a law . The bank has no legal existence ; it is not responsible to government ; it has no authority to act ; it is incapable of being an agent ; the President may treat it as a nullity , to - morrow ; withdraw from it all ...
Page 400
... bank charter contains . What I have now been considering are the President's objec- tions , not to the policy or expediency , but to the constitutional- ity of the bank ; and not to the constitutionality of any new or proposed bank ...
... bank charter contains . What I have now been considering are the President's objec- tions , not to the policy or expediency , but to the constitutional- ity of the bank ; and not to the constitutionality of any new or proposed bank ...
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