Abridgment of the Debates of Congress, from 1789 to 1856: From Gales and Seatons' Annals of Congress; from Their Register of Debates; and from the Official Reported Debates, by John C. Rives, Volume 1D. Appleton, 1857 - Law |
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... taken into con- sideration , but if two - thirds had applied , it pre- cluded deliberation on the part of the House . He hoped the present application would be pro- perly noticed . Mr. GERRY . - The gentleman from Virginia ( Mr. MADISON ) ...
... taken into con- sideration , but if two - thirds had applied , it pre- cluded deliberation on the part of the House . He hoped the present application would be pro- perly noticed . Mr. GERRY . - The gentleman from Virginia ( Mr. MADISON ) ...
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... taken it before ; which may be administered by any person authorized by the law of the State in which such office shall be holden to administer oaths . And the members of the several State Legislatures , and all executive and judicial ...
... taken it before ; which may be administered by any person authorized by the law of the State in which such office shall be holden to administer oaths . And the members of the several State Legislatures , and all executive and judicial ...
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... taken such oath , under an obligation to specting the jurisdiction of the Federal and State support the constitution . It has been said by Governments . The States had better be left to one gentleman , that Congress have not the ...
... taken such oath , under an obligation to specting the jurisdiction of the Federal and State support the constitution . It has been said by Governments . The States had better be left to one gentleman , that Congress have not the ...
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... taken on striking out six cents , and passed in the affirmative : ayes 24 , noes 22 . Propositions were severally made for filling up the blank with two , three , four , and five cents ; five being the highest was first put and agreed ...
... taken on striking out six cents , and passed in the affirmative : ayes 24 , noes 22 . Propositions were severally made for filling up the blank with two , three , four , and five cents ; five being the highest was first put and agreed ...
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... taken up in a separate view , we shall do the same thing at a greater expense of time . But gentlemen say that it is im- proper to connect the two objects , because they do not come within the title of the bill ; but this objection may ...
... taken up in a separate view , we shall do the same thing at a greater expense of time . But gentlemen say that it is im- proper to connect the two objects , because they do not come within the title of the bill ; but this objection may ...
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Page 12 - ... flattering hopes, with an immutable decision, as the asylum of my declining years ; a retreat which was rendered every day more necessary, as well as more dear to me, by the addition of habit to inclination, and of frequent interruptions in my health, to the gradual waste committed on it by time. On the other hand, the magnitude and difficulty of the trust to which the voice of my country called me...
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Page 169 - Nor am I less persuaded, that you will agree with me in opinion, that there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature.
Page 169 - ... to discriminate the spirit of liberty from that of licentiousness, cherishing the first, avoiding the last, and uniting a speedy but temperate vigilance against encroachments, with an inviolable respect to the laws.
Page 12 - ... day of the present month. On the one hand, I was summoned by my country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love, from a retreat which I had chosen with the fondest predilection, and, in my flattering hopes, with an immutable decision as the asylum of my declining years...
Page 169 - ... there is nothing which can better deserve your patronage than the promotion of science and literature. Knowledge is, in every country, the surest basis of public happiness. In one in which the measures of government receive their impression so immediately from the sense of the community as in ours, it is proportionably essential.
Page 250 - Union and of concord among the States was more important, and that therefore it would be better that the vote of rejection should be rescinded, to effect which some members should change their votes. But it was observed that this pill would be peculiarly bitter to the Southern States, and that some concomitant measure should be adopted to sweeten it a little to them.
Page 45 - When a message shall be sent from the Senate to the House of Representatives, it shall be announced at the door of the House by the doorkeeper, and shall be respectfully communicated to the chair, by the person by whom it may be sent.
Page 109 - President to give, from time to time, to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and to recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient...
Page 208 - Under these impressions, they earnestly entreat your serious attention to the subject of slavery ; that you will be pleased to countenance the restoration of liberty to those unhappy men, who alone, in this land of freedom, are degraded into perpetual bondage...