The Life of James Knox PolkJ. M. Alden, 1850 - 395 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 59
... authorities , are always to be feared . Freemen as we are , each man indi- vidually a sovereign , proud of our independence , and of the privileges and immunities that have been handed down to us by our forefathers , we are too prone to ...
... authorities , are always to be feared . Freemen as we are , each man indi- vidually a sovereign , proud of our independence , and of the privileges and immunities that have been handed down to us by our forefathers , we are too prone to ...
الصفحة 60
... authority to construct works of internal improvement was comprehended in the money - power conferred by the Constitution , further re . flection and experience convinced him of his error . * * Harbor and River Veto , August 3 , 1846 ...
... authority to construct works of internal improvement was comprehended in the money - power conferred by the Constitution , further re . flection and experience convinced him of his error . * * Harbor and River Veto , August 3 , 1846 ...
الصفحة 83
... authority which had been claimed by the friends of the " American System " to belong to the national government , he denied its ex- istence altogether . During his service in Congress , he was the steadfast friend of the surviving ...
... authority which had been claimed by the friends of the " American System " to belong to the national government , he denied its ex- istence altogether . During his service in Congress , he was the steadfast friend of the surviving ...
الصفحة 105
... authorities . The State Governments are not , as has been erroneously supposed by some , subordinate to the Fed- eral Government . " They are coördinate departments of one simple and integral whole . " The States have parted with7 ...
... authorities . The State Governments are not , as has been erroneously supposed by some , subordinate to the Fed- eral Government . " They are coördinate departments of one simple and integral whole . " The States have parted with7 ...
الصفحة 109
... authorities alone . " A surplus Federal revenue , raised by means of a tariff of duties , must necessarily be collected in unequal proportions from the people of the respective States . The planting and producing States must bear the ...
... authorities alone . " A surplus Federal revenue , raised by means of a tariff of duties , must necessarily be collected in unequal proportions from the people of the respective States . The planting and producing States must bear the ...
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الصفحة 346 - An act to procure the necessary surveys, plans, and estimates upon the subject of roads and canals." It authorized the President to cause surveys and estimates to be made of the routes of such roads and canals as he...
الصفحة 138 - That the liberal principles embodied by Jefferson in the Declaration of Independence, and sanctioned in the Constitution, which makes ours the land of liberty and the asylum of the oppressed of every nation, have ever been cardinal principles in the Democratic faith...
الصفحة 347 - It is contended on the one side that as the National Government is a government of limited powers it has no right to expend money except in the performance of acts authorized by the other specific grants according to a strict construction of their powers...
الصفحة 225 - America; it is agreed, that, for the future, the confines between the dominions of his Britannic majesty, and those of his most Christian majesty, in that part of the world, shall be fixed irrevocably by a line drawn along the middle of the river Mississippi, from its source to the river Iberville, and from thence, by a line drawn along the middle of this river, and the lakes Maurepas and Pontchartrain, to the sea...
الصفحة 27 - ... 4. Resolved, that as we now acknowledge the existence and control of no law or legal officer, civil or military, within this county, we do hereby ordain and adopt as a rule of life all, each and every of our former laws — wherein nevertheless the Crown of Great Britain never can be considered as holding rights, privileges, immunities, or authority therein.
الصفحة 153 - That justice and sound policy forbid the federal government to foster one branch of industry to the detriment of another, or to cherish the interests of one portion to the injury of another portion of our common country...
الصفحة 390 - An act to provide for the better organization of the treasury, and for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public revenue...
الصفحة 105 - Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad...
الصفحة 139 - That our title to the whole of the territory of Oregon is clear and unquestionable; that no portion of the same ought to be ceded to England or any other power; and that the re-occupation of Oregon and the re-annexation of Texas at the earliest practicable period are great American measures, which this convention recommends to the cordial support of the Democracy of the Union.
الصفحة 229 - Art. 2. It shall be competent, however, to either of the contracting parties, in case either should think fit, at any time after the 20th of October, 1828, on giving due notice of twelve months to the other contracting party, to annul and abrogate this Convention; and it shall, in such case, be accordingly entirely annulled and abrogated, after the expiration of the said term of notice.