The Statesman's Manual: Containing the Addresses and Messages of the Presidents of the United States, Inaugural, Annual, and Special, from 1789 to 1858; with a Memoir of Each of the Presidents, and a History of Their Administrations: Also, Treaties Between the United States and Foreign Powers, Constitution of the United States, Presidents' Proclamations, and Other Important Documents and Statistical Information, Volume 1Edward Walker, 1858 - Presidents |
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... whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress : but no senator or representative , or person holding an oflice of trust or profit under the United States , shall be appointed an elector ...
... whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the Congress : but no senator or representative , or person holding an oflice of trust or profit under the United States , shall be appointed an elector ...
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... whole number of electors ap- pointed ; and if no person have such majority , then from the persons hav- ing the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as president , the house of representatives shall choose ...
... whole number of electors ap- pointed ; and if no person have such majority , then from the persons hav- ing the highest numbers not exceeding three on the list of those voted for as president , the house of representatives shall choose ...
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... whole number of electors appointed , and if no person have a majority , then from the two highest numbers on the list , the senate shall choose the vice- president ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole ...
... whole number of electors appointed , and if no person have a majority , then from the two highest numbers on the list , the senate shall choose the vice- president ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole ...
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... whole day , the French offered terms of capitulation , and articles were signed , by which the fort was surrendered , and the garrison allowed the honors of war , and permitted to return unmolested into the inhabited parts of Virginia ...
... whole day , the French offered terms of capitulation , and articles were signed , by which the fort was surrendered , and the garrison allowed the honors of war , and permitted to return unmolested into the inhabited parts of Virginia ...
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... whole army raised for the defence of the American cause shall be put under my care , and that it is necessary for me to proceed immediately to Boston to take upon me the command of it . " You may believe me , when I assure you in the ...
... whole army raised for the defence of the American cause shall be put under my care , and that it is necessary for me to proceed immediately to Boston to take upon me the command of it . " You may believe me , when I assure you in the ...
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Page 538 - In the discussions to which this interest has given rise and in the arrangements by which they may terminate the occasion has been judged proper for asserting, as a principle in which the rights and interests of the United States are involved, that the American continents, by the free and independent condition which they have assumed and maintain, are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers.
Page 160 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people is sacredly obligatory upon all. The very idea of the power and the right of the people to establish government presupposes the duty of every individual to obey the established government.
Page 165 - ... any portion of the foreign world ; so far, I mean, as we are now at liberty to do it; for let me not be understood as capable of patronizing infidelity to existing engagements. I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy. I repeat it, therefore, let those engagements be observed in their genuine sense. But, in my opinion, it is unnecessary and would be unwise to extend them. Taking care always to keep ourselves, by suitable establishments,...
Page 161 - However combinations or associations of the above description may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely, in the course of time and things, to become potent engines by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the...
Page 160 - Sensible of this momentous truth, you have improved upon your first essay by the adoption of a constitution of government better calculated than your former for an intimate union, and for the efficacious management of your common concerns. This government, the offspring of our own choice, uninfluenced and...
Page 20 - If any Person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any state, shall flee from Justice, and be found in any of the united states, he shall upon demand of the Governor or executive power, of the state from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the state having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 163 - Can it be, that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue? The experiment at least, is recommended by every sentiment which ennobles human nature. Alas! is it rendered impossible by its vices?
Page 161 - All obstructions to the execution of the laws, all combinations and associations, under whatever plausible character, with the real design to direct, control, counteract, or awe the regular deliberation and action of the constituted authorities, are destructive of this fundamental principle and of fatal tendency. They serve to organize faction, to give it an artificial and extraordinary force, to put in the place of the delegated will of the nation the will of a party (often a small but artful and...
Page 164 - Hence frequent collisions, obstinate, envenomed, and bloody contests. The nation, prompted by ill-will and resentment, sometimes impels to war the government, contrary to the best calculations of policy. The government sometimes participates in the national propensity, and adopts, through passion, what reason would reject; at other times, it makes the animosity of the nation subservient to projects of hostility, instigated by pride, ambition, and other sinister and pernicious motives. The peace often,...
Page 163 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Whatever may be conceded to the influence of refined education on minds of peculiar structure, reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious...