I would reduce my table to one dish, my hall to one servant, my stable to one saddle-horse, and my kennel to one pointer, rather than abridge the preservers of old England of a feather.
Nor, in my adoption of the belief of that voluntary agency, do I, in the remotest degree, presume to abridge the sovereignty of God.
To abridge Tacitus would indeed be presumptuous; but I may select the general ideas which he applies to the present state and future revelations of Gaul.
This constitution is in accord with the highest and noblest aspirations of the heart--"No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech.
That this statute, under which this indictment is found, is unconstitutional, because it does abridge the liberty of speech; it does exactly that which the constitution emphatically says shall not be done.
No law shall be passed to abridge the liberty of speech.
Now, while you are considering this statute, I want you to keep in mind this other statement: "No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press.
The 14th Amendment provides that: "No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
I shall therefore endeavor to abridge what has been written by eminent authorities, taking as a basis the late work of Lord Mackenzie and the learned and interesting essay of Professor Maine.
We must not abridge the liberties of the press or the people.
I don't think the worse of you for wishing toabridge it.
I am very sorry you are obliged to abridgeyour tour.
Prideaux having treated this subject with great extent and learning, I have only to copy, or rather abridge him.
No State shall make, or enforce any law that shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States.
If, then, the legislature could abridge the suffrage, it must have the power to extend it, and all the women of this State should demand is an act of the legislature.
Would not this tend to abridge the member's independence?
Lordship, "and so you would turn the poor Curate out of doors, and abridge the miserable pittance of his successor, and all this before you've got the living!
Colored persons are citizens of the United States, and no State can abridge their privileges or immunities.
State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridgethe privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States,” and again Congress is empowered to enforce this provision.
The spirit and pretensions of Catholicism are so inimical to secular authority that, to whatever extent they obtain a controlling influence in a government they tend to abridge its sovereignty, and threaten its subversion.
A convention between Great Britain and Spain, originating from a dispute concerning a petty trading establishment at Nootka Sound, could not abridge the rights of other nations.
Vain jargon in favour of the palpably unjust will then abridge itself within limits.
This humour will have to abate; it is the first element of all fertility in human things, that such 'liberty' of apes and nomads do by freewill or constraint abridge itself, give place to a better.
The experience of Massachusetts is, as we have already said, the experience of every community, State or nation in which an effort has been made toabridge the evils of intemperance by licensing the dram-shop.
Snatching up his sword] Then death rock me asleep, abridgemy doleful days!
Here if thou stay thou canst not see thy love; Besides, thy staying willabridge thy life.
