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Page 201 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more ; it is intercourse/^ It describes the commercial intercourse between nations, and parts of nations, in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Page 109 - I" means the States of Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia. North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, and the District of Columbia. (c) "Districts II-IV" means all of the States of the United States except those States within district I and district V.
Page 142 - June next, after deducting all expenses incident to the same, shall be applied to the laying out and making public roads, leading from the navigable waters emptying into the Atlantic, to the Ohio, to the said State, and through the same, such roads to be laid out under the authority of Congress, with the consent of the several States through which the road shall pass...
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Page 208 - It is obviously impracticable in the federal government of these states, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society, must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
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Page 50 - The result is a conviction that the states have no power, by taxation or otherwise, to retard, impede, burden, or in any manner control the operations of the constitutional laws enacted by Congress to carry into execution the powers vested in the general government.
Page 50 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
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| Title | Great Debates in American History: Economic and social questions, part 1 Volume 10 of Great Debates in American History: From the Debates in the British Parliament on the Colonial Stamp Act (1764-1765) to the Debates in Congress at the Close of the Taft Administration (1912-1913), Marion Mills Miller |
| Editor | Marion Mills Miller |
| Contributors | United States. Congress, Great Britain. Parliament |
| Publisher | Current Literature Publishing Company, 1913 |
| ISBN | 0810803860, 9780810803862 |
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