The American Jurist and Law Magazine, المجلد 7Freeman & Bolles, 1832 |
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... constitutional disease , and ordinary attention is commonly sufficient to rear them to manhood . The several revisions of the laws of Virginia are each char- acterized by the same features in their several acts concerning slavery . On ...
... constitutional disease , and ordinary attention is commonly sufficient to rear them to manhood . The several revisions of the laws of Virginia are each char- acterized by the same features in their several acts concerning slavery . On ...
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... constitutions , being edicts emanating from the sole will and authority of the emperors , had been received as the supreme law of the empire , throughout its vast extent . Such being the spirit , the character , and the tendency of the ...
... constitutions , being edicts emanating from the sole will and authority of the emperors , had been received as the supreme law of the empire , throughout its vast extent . Such being the spirit , the character , and the tendency of the ...
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... constitution , so far from its being considered as a funda- mental law founded upon the will and assent of the whole people , equally binding on the whole , and the source from which all other authority is derived , is on the contrary ...
... constitution , so far from its being considered as a funda- mental law founded upon the will and assent of the whole people , equally binding on the whole , and the source from which all other authority is derived , is on the contrary ...
الصفحة 61
... constitution , if there be one , or where its provisions are ill adapted to accomplish its objects , or its formal ... constitution ; such a constitution as at once restrains VOL . VII.-NO. XIII . 8 the violent and irregular action of ...
... constitution , if there be one , or where its provisions are ill adapted to accomplish its objects , or its formal ... constitution ; such a constitution as at once restrains VOL . VII.-NO. XIII . 8 the violent and irregular action of ...
الصفحة 63
... constitutions of the United States , and of the several states , with all their pro- visions and limitations , are regarded , and very properly regard- ed , as a part of the laws . Indeed they possess this character in a peculiar and ...
... constitutions of the United States , and of the several states , with all their pro- visions and limitations , are regarded , and very properly regard- ed , as a part of the laws . Indeed they possess this character in a peculiar and ...
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الصفحة 119 - By the law of the land is most clearly intended the general law ; a law which hears before it condemns ; which proceeds upon inquiry, and renders judgment only after trial. The meaning is, that every citizen shall hold his life, liberty, property, and immunities under the protection of the general rules which govern society. Everything which may pass under the form of an enactment is not therefore to be considered the law of the land.
الصفحة 127 - True it is, that Providence hath so ordained, and doth so govern things, that those who break the great law of Heaven by shedding man's blood seldom succeed in avoiding discovery. Especially, in a case exciting so much attention as this, discovery must...
الصفحة 128 - A thousand eyes turn at once to explore every man, every thing, every circumstance, connected with the time and place; a thousand ears catch every whisper ; a thousand excited minds intensely dwell on the scene, shedding all their light, and ready to kindle the slightest circumstance into a blaze of discovery. Meantime the guilty soul cannot keep its own secret. It is false to itself; or rather it feels an irresistible impulse of conscience to be true to itself.
الصفحة 109 - When public bodies are to be addressed on momentous occasions, when great interests are at stake, and strong passions excited, nothing is valuable in speech farther than as it is connected with high intellectual and moral endowments. Clearness, force, and earnestness are the qualities which produce conviction.
الصفحة 148 - But when a party by his own contract creates a duty or charge upon himself, he is bound to make it good, if he may, notwithstanding any accident or inevitable necessity, because he might have provided against it by his contract.
الصفحة 127 - It is accomplished. The deed is done. He retreats, retraces his steps to the window, passes out through it as he came in, and escapes.
الصفحة 126 - In some respects it has hardly a precedent anywhere; certainly none in our New England history. This bloody drama exhibited no suddenly excited, ungovernable rage. The actors in it were not surprised by any lionlike temptation springing upon their virtue and overcoming it before resistance could begin. Nor did they do the deed to glut savage vengeance, or satiate long-settled and deadly hate. It was a cool, calculating, money-making murder. It was all "hire and salary, not revenge.
الصفحة 107 - ... out to sustain the nullifying act. They will march, sir, under a very gallant leader : for I believe the honorable member himself commands the militia of that part of the state. He will raise the NULLIFYING ACT on his standard, and spread it out as his banner! It will have a preamble...
الصفحة 106 - I wish to be informed how this State interference is to be put in practice without violence, bloodshed, and rebellion. "We will take the existing case of the tariff law. South Carolina is said to have made up her opinion upon it.
الصفحة 146 - A felonious taking of money or goods, to any value, from the person of another or in his presence, against his will, by violence or putting him in fear.