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... preserve the commonwealths Let all declare the true principles of liberty The states are now provincialised Invocation . " " 63 8338885588888 65 66 67 67 68 68 68 69 69 PART II . FEDERALISATION . CHAPTER I. - THE ACTORS -THEIR MOTIVES ...
... preserve the commonwealths Let all declare the true principles of liberty The states are now provincialised Invocation . " " 63 8338885588888 65 66 67 67 68 68 68 69 69 PART II . FEDERALISATION . CHAPTER I. - THE ACTORS -THEIR MOTIVES ...
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... preserve the states 151 The wills of states must live to amend 152 The same states made both federal compacts 152 The instrument says the states are the parties The " executed " " deed " 153 154 The compact was done only by states 154 ...
... preserve the states 151 The wills of states must live to amend 152 The same states made both federal compacts 152 The instrument says the states are the parties The " executed " " deed " 153 154 The compact was done only by states 154 ...
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... preserve the states complete Electees and agents A compact and a constitution Noah Webster never changed The " adroit substitutions " in Webster's dictionary 1. Sovereignty 39.66 2. " State , " " commonwealth , " and " republic " " " 3 ...
... preserve the states complete Electees and agents A compact and a constitution Noah Webster never changed The " adroit substitutions " in Webster's dictionary 1. Sovereignty 39.66 2. " State , " " commonwealth , " and " republic " " " 3 ...
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... preservation the duty of a state · Voting in some states is a mere simulacrum of liberty The guaranty is really one of sovereignty 2. As to the fourteenth party to the compact The real fourteenth party , if any 255 256 256 257 258 258 ...
... preservation the duty of a state · Voting in some states is a mere simulacrum of liberty The guaranty is really one of sovereignty 2. As to the fourteenth party to the compact The real fourteenth party , if any 255 256 256 257 258 258 ...
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... preserve each Expressio unius est exclusio alterius • " The government can enter states only by express law " The government " has no right to hold the states Its doing so reduces the states to counties • CHAPTER XII . -THE TRUE ...
... preserve each Expressio unius est exclusio alterius • " The government can enter states only by express law " The government " has no right to hold the states Its doing so reduces the states to counties • CHAPTER XII . -THE TRUE ...
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Page 553 - That all men are by nature equally free and independent, and have certain inherent rights, of which, when they enter into a state of society, they cannot, by any compact, deprive or divest their posterity; namely, the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the means of acquiring and possessing property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
Page 514 - States in congress assembled ; and that it is the opinion of this convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a convention of delegates, chosen in each state by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 551 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation.
Page 529 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 469 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the Constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Page 501 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Page 514 - ... electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution; that after such publication the electors should be appointed, and the senators and representatives elected; that the electors should meet on the day fixed for the election of the President, and should transmit their votes certified, signed, sealed, and directed, as the Constitution requires, to the secretary of the United States in Congress assembled...
Page 500 - ... 2. Every bill which shall have passed the house of representatives and the senate shall, before it becomes a law, be presented to the president of the United States ; if he approve, he shall sign it ; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to that house in which it shall have originated ; who shall enter the objections at large on their journal, and proceed to reconsider it.
Page 514 - September, did resolve unanimously, "that the said report, with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case...
Page 235 - Profoundly penetrated with this idea, I shall carry it with me to my grave, as a strong incitement to unceasing vows that heaven may continue to you the choicest tokens of its beneficence; that your union and brotherly affection may be perpetual; that the free Constitution, which is the work of your hands, may be sacredly maintained...