 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1844 - 268 pages
...the. party to whom such sen'ice or labor may be due." This is the plain and unequivocal injunction of the constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land, on this subject. In strict pursuance of this constitutional injunction the act of 1793, which the petitioners... | |
 | Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society - African Americans - 1846 - 510 pages
...political control of the nation, in virtue of their ownership in human flesh. Seeing, as we did, in the Constitution of the United States, the Supreme Law of the Land, we could not help -perceiving that it had a fixed and determinate meaning, ascertained by the usual... | |
 | Edward Everett - Bible - 1848 - 586 pages
...existence will be a state of perpetual conflict and open war. Resolved, That all the provisions of the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land — are equally binding upon every citizen, and upon every State in the Union ; — that ALL laws passed... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 890 pages
...or in adhering to their ' enemies, ginng them aid and comfort." " From Ulis declaration contained in the Constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land, and the fountain both of the authority of the Government and of the crime against it, a plain man might... | |
 | United States. Congress - United States - 1852 - 928 pages
...in adhering to their ' enemies, giving them aid and comfort.' " From this declaration contained in the Constitution of the United States, the supreme law of the land, and the fountain both of the authority of the Government and of the crime against it, a plain man might... | |
 | George Sewall Boutwell - Constitutional conventions - 1853 - 130 pages
...by their charter. Except no far as that protects them, they are wholly at the Legislature's mercy* The Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land — secures the inviolability of contracts. If the charter of Harvard College is not a contract, then... | |
 | Massachusetts. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1854 - 324 pages
...by their charter. Except so far as that protects them, they are wholly at the Legislature's mercy. The Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land — secures the inviolability of contracts. If the charter of Harvard College is not a contract, then... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 262 pages
...existence will be a state of perpetual conflict and open war. "Resolved, That all the provisions of the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land — are equally binding upon every citizen, and upon every State in the Union; — that ALL laws passed... | |
 | Theodore Parker - Antislavery movements - 1855 - 256 pages
...existence will be a state of perpetual conflict and open war. "Resolved, That all the provisions of the Constitution of the United States — the supreme law of the land — are equally binding upon every citizen, and upon every State in the Union; — that ALL laws passed... | |
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