Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for Promoting Useful Knowledge, Том 51American Philosophical Society, 1912 |
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Сторінка 336 - that the Act had operated in 1780 to extinguish the debt, that therefore in 1783 there was no debt and no creditor upon whom the treaty might operate when it provided " that creditors on either side shall meet with no lawful impediment to the recovery of the full value, sterling money, of all bona fide debts heretofore contracted";
Сторінка 394 - Note I.—In a letter to Senator Breckinridge of Kentucky, dated August 12, 1803, Jefferson wrote: "The Constitution has made no provision for our holding foreign territory, still less for incorporating foreign nations into our Union. The executive in seizing the fugitive occurrence which so much advances the good of their country, have done an act
Сторінка 277 - In the report of the committee of style the existing form was adopted. 22 The sixth resolution offered by Governor Randolph had enumerated among the powers given to Congress the right " to negative all laws passed by the several States, contravening in the opinion of the national legislature, the articles of union."-
Сторінка 401 - Neilson, 2 Pet. 253, 314, he repeated this in substance: 'Our Constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in Courts of justice as equivalent to an Act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision." So in Whitney vs. Robertson, 124 US,
Сторінка 394 - the Constitution. The legislature, in casting behind them metaphysical subtleties, and risking themselves like faithful servants, must ratify and pay for it, and throw themselves on their country for doing for them unauthorized what we know they would have done for themselves had they been in a situation to do it." Jefferson's Works, IV., p. 500.
Сторінка 399 - for a redress of grievances. Article II. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Article III. No soldier shall, in time
Сторінка 363 - Maryland are formally approved and declared to be wholly consistent with the decision rendered ; and in language already quoted, the Court say: " All these powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what may, perhaps, more properly be called internal police?** are not thus surrendered or
Сторінка 355 - We choose rather to plant ourselves on what we consider impregnable positions. They are these: . . . That all those powers which relate to merely municipal legislation, or what may, perhaps, more properly be called internal police, are not thus surrendered or restrained; and that, consequently, in relation to these, the authority of a State is complete, unqualified and exclusive.""
Сторінка 397 - of the senate, the principle on which that body was formed confining it to a small number of members. To admit then a right in the house of representatives to demand, and to have as a matter of course, all the papers respecting a negotiation with a foreign power, would be to establish a dangerous precedent.
Сторінка 408 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any person being within any state or territory in the free exercise or enjoyment of