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... present volume the author has sought to give the student a sense of the number and variety of sources - acts of Congress , decisions of courts , proclamations and messages of presidents , records of debates , party platforms , charters ...
... present volume the author has sought to give the student a sense of the number and variety of sources - acts of Congress , decisions of courts , proclamations and messages of presidents , records of debates , party platforms , charters ...
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... presents shall come , greeting . Know ye that of our especiall grace , certaine science and meere motion , we have given and granted , and by these presents for us , our heirs and successors , doe give and grant to our trustie and ...
... presents shall come , greeting . Know ye that of our especiall grace , certaine science and meere motion , we have given and granted , and by these presents for us , our heirs and successors , doe give and grant to our trustie and ...
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... the Inhabitants of the said Plantations , that shall submit unto the present Government and authority . . . And in case they shall not submit by fair ways 26 The Establishment of the English Virginia changes masters, 1651-1662.
... the Inhabitants of the said Plantations , that shall submit unto the present Government and authority . . . And in case they shall not submit by fair ways 26 The Establishment of the English Virginia changes masters, 1651-1662.
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... present want strength . . . . I am not like to live to see such another in New England , though I know that God is able to double the spirit of that Elias upon him that succeeds him . . . . It is well for both Bostons that they had such ...
... present want strength . . . . I am not like to live to see such another in New England , though I know that God is able to double the spirit of that Elias upon him that succeeds him . . . . It is well for both Bostons that they had such ...
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... present appearance of things we thus speak . . . ... If these things go on ( according to the present appearance ) your subjects here will either be forced to seeke new dwellings , or sinke and faint under burdens that will be to them ...
... present appearance of things we thus speak . . . ... If these things go on ( according to the present appearance ) your subjects here will either be forced to seeke new dwellings , or sinke and faint under burdens that will be to them ...
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Page 404 - Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 272 - ... the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Page 173 - In all our deliberations on this subject, we kept steadily in our view that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American — the consolidation of our Union — in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 232 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 555 - The canal shall be free and open to the vessels of commerce and of war of all nations observing these rules, on terms of entire equality, so that there shall be no discrimination against any such nation, or its citizens or subjects, in respect of the conditions or charges of traffic or otherwise.
Page 380 - Constitution unimpaired, and, on the sensitive point, the laws of your own framing under it; while the new Administration will have no immediate power, if it would, to change either. If it were admitted that you who are dissatisfied, hold the right side in the dispute, there still is no single good reason for precipitate action. Intelligence, patriotism, Christianity, and a firm reliance on Him who has never yet forsaken this favored Land, are still competent to adjust, in the best way, all our present...
Page 379 - Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world? In our present differences, is either party without faith of being in the right? If the Almighty Ruler of Nations, with His eternal truth and justice, be on your side of the North...
Page 531 - To-day the United States is practically sovereign on this continent, and its fiat is law upon the subjects to which it confines its interposition.
Page 355 - Executive of the moneys herein appropriated, neither slavery nor involuntary servitude shall ever exist in any part of said territory, except for crime, whereof the party shall first be duly convicted.
Page 379 - Physically speaking, we cannot separate. We cannot remove our respective sections from each other, nor build an impassable wall between them. A husband and wife may be divorced, and go out of the presence and beyond the reach of each other ; but the different parts of our country cannot do this.