Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volume 2,Deel 2;Volume 45Gales & Seaton, 1825 |
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Pagina 1633
... mode by which this officer should be whole People of this mighty Confederacy feel much con- elected , without a participation by the States as States : cern . Yes , Sir , said Mr. P. , the proposed amendments to the plan finally adopted ...
... mode by which this officer should be whole People of this mighty Confederacy feel much con- elected , without a participation by the States as States : cern . Yes , Sir , said Mr. P. , the proposed amendments to the plan finally adopted ...
Pagina 1643
... mode of collecting the public sentiment should be established throughout the Union . Under the present provisions of the Constitution , and the practice under them , accord- ing to the various and diversified modes of election , pre ...
... mode of collecting the public sentiment should be established throughout the Union . Under the present provisions of the Constitution , and the practice under them , accord- ing to the various and diversified modes of election , pre ...
Pagina 1645
... mode of clecting by the Legislatures as the uniform mode in all the States . The great excellence of the district system is , that each district throughout the Union would contain very nearly the same quantum of population , would be ...
... mode of clecting by the Legislatures as the uniform mode in all the States . The great excellence of the district system is , that each district throughout the Union would contain very nearly the same quantum of population , would be ...
Pagina 1655
... mode of electing the Chief Magistrate . The larger States , as is natural to suppose , would contend for an election according to the number of inhabitants in each State , as they thereby would secure more votes ; the small- er States ...
... mode of electing the Chief Magistrate . The larger States , as is natural to suppose , would contend for an election according to the number of inhabitants in each State , as they thereby would secure more votes ; the small- er States ...
Pagina 1657
... mode for bringing forward candidates for the office of President and Vice President is the least liable to call forth art , intrigue , and corruption ; the un- certainty of the event , and the difficulty of making ar- rangements , are ...
... mode for bringing forward candidates for the office of President and Vice President is the least liable to call forth art , intrigue , and corruption ; the un- certainty of the event , and the difficulty of making ar- rangements , are ...
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Pagina 1725 - Would he were fatter ; but I fear him not : Yet if my name were liable to fear, I do not know the man I should avoid So soon as that spare Cassius. He reads much ; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men...
Pagina 1669 - By a faction I understand a number of citizens, whether amounting to a majority or minority of the whole, who are united and actuated by some common impulse of passion, or of interest, adverse to the rights of other citizens, or to the permanent and aggregate interests of the community.
Pagina 2157 - Europe has a set of primary interests which to us have none or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged in frequent controversies, the causes of which are essentially foreign to our concerns. Hence, therefore, it must be unwise in us to implicate ourselves by artificial ties in the ordinary vicissitudes of her politics or the ordinary combinations and collisions of her friendships or enmities.
Pagina 1737 - Night, sable goddess ! from her ebon throne In rayless majesty, now stretches forth Her leaden sceptre o'er a slumbering world. Silence how dead ! and darkness how profound ! Nor eye nor listening ear an object finds : Creation sleeps. 'Tis as the general pulse Of life stood still, and nature made a pause, An awful pause ! prophetic of her end.
Pagina 2159 - If we remain one people, under an efficient government, the period is not far off, when we may defy material injury from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality, we may at any time resolve upon, to be scrupulously respected...
Pagina 2159 - ... from external annoyance; when we may take such an attitude as will cause the neutrality we may at any time resolve upon to be scrupulously respected; when belligerent nations, under the impossibility of making acquisitions upon us, will not lightly hazard the giving us provocation; when we may choose peace or war, as our interest, guided by justice, shall counsel.
Pagina 2157 - The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop.
Pagina 2237 - I beg it may be remembered by every gentleman in the room, that I this day declare with the utmost sincerity I do not think myself equal to the command I am honored with.
Pagina 2037 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Pagina 2083 - ... latter without adequate inducement or justification. It leads also to concessions to the favorite nation of privileges denied to others, which is apt doubly to injure the nation making the concessions by unnecessarily parting with what ought to have been retained, and by exciting jealousy, ill will, and a disposition to retaliate in the parties from whom equal privileges are withheld...