But these constitutional failing were happily compensated by the virtues of the head and heart, by the warmest sentiments of honour and humanity.
He was the victim of a constitutional timidity, his scourge from childhood.
Morton's courage, unlike that of his companion, was the result more of his mental habits than of a native constitutional intrepidity, and was therefore much less subject to the changes of his bodily condition.
One afternoon, returning from his customary constitutional ride, he was in the act of turning the upper corner of a street which slopes downward somewhat steeply till it meets a main thoroughfare of the town.
The revolutionists called a constitutional convention which met at Moca and in February, 1858, promulgated another constitution, designating Santiago as the capital.
Repeated attempts have been made to secure a new constitution and in 1914 partial elections were held for a constitutional convention, but for one reason or another the plan has not matured.
A constitutional convention was called, which met at San Cristobal and drafted the first constitution of the Republic, taking the constitution of the United States as a model.
General Pedro Santana, who thus became the first constitutional president, was a rough, uncouth and uneducated man, but possessed of keen perception and great personal bravery.
The system of local chieftains of gradually diminishing category has brought Santo Domingo to resemble in some administrations a feudal monarchy rather than a constitutional republic.
Of historical difficulties, of those deeper moral difficulties which arise, for instance, from a consideration of the constitutional unveracity of the Oriental mind, he has no suspicion.
The Constitutional History of Canada, by Samuel James Watson, Vol.
Such writers cannot have read the debates which took place in the House of Commons while the Constitutional Act of 1791 was under discussion there.
Opinions were obtained from eminent lawyers as to the respective rights of the various sects, and as to the true meaning of the Constitutional Act.
At a meeting of the Constitutional Reform Society Dr.
See the twentieth section of the Constitutional Act.
What they wanted was not constitutional Reform, but separation from the Empire, and the establishment of a republic.
Even such clear-sighted statesmen as Pitt and Fox were blind to facts which at the present day force themselves upon the attention of every student of constitutional history.
Constitutional resistance, they thought, had had a fair trial.
This was perhaps the greatest of all the curses imposed upon Upper Canada by the Constitutional Act, for its ill effects were both direct and incidental.
Constitutional government everywhere owes something to Fra Paolo; and modern Italian history is the outcome and embodiment of the principles he laid down in his voluminous State papers.
The Education Bill was still under discussion, and we heard some good speaking, but not so good as I have heard at Washington, and in the Constitutional Convention at Richmond.
He was also habitually a sufferer from chronic rheumatism in his back and hips, partlyconstitutional and partly as the result of overstraining the parts, especially in wrestling.
Can it be that two millions of the ten millions now on the stage of action in the northern United States, are not only predisposed to droop and die, but are laid under a constitutional necessity of so doing?
The work of Karl Pearson[5] and other recent researches forcibly indicate that hereditary constitutionalpredisposition is one of the chief factors concerned in subjects who develop well defined attacks of the disease.
From the standpoint of heredity, therefore, the question largely resolves itself into one of the inheritance or non-inheritance of constitutional resistance.
What is really inherited is a constitutional susceptibility to this particular germ.
The readiness with which Southern Governors prefer the most false and audacious claims, under color of Constitutional authority, exhibits a state of society in which truth and honor are but little respected.
The very instant the press ventures beyond its prescribed limits, the constitutional barriers erected for its protection sink into the dust, and a censorship, the more stern and vindictive from being illegal, crushes it into submission.
Unite then, we beseech you, with one heart and one mind, for the legal, constitutional abolition of slavery.
One of the most inestimable of constitutionalprivileges is TRIAL BY JURY; and this, as we have seen, is trampled under foot with impunity, at the mandate of the slaveholders.
Let not, we beseech you, the freedom of the slave proceed from the armed invader of your soil, nor from his own torch and dagger--but from your peaceful and constitutional interference in his behalf.
A most brilliant constitutional debate again took place in the Senate.
Under these decisions, only authority and constitutional rights may be reviewed.
V, devotes much attention to it as a constitutional difficulty in the way of amendment of the law.
That would even more flagrantly transgress theconstitutional rule.
The outcome cannot fail to be of the utmost importance,--far-reaching in its effect not only upon the regulation of railways but throughout the entire field of constitutional law.
They merely emphasized the critical nature of the controversy, so far as it concerned the larger constitutional question of separation of powers between the three main branches of our government.
In many instances the hands of legislators were tied by constitutional prohibitions; and in other cases the railway net had been so far completed as to lessen the zeal of the public in the work.
It is true that, to make the constitutional doctrine hold, she also ought to be consulted, and that we have no possible machinery for consulting her--a consideration which of itself shows our Indian government in its true light.
The Republicans ask how, if this constitutional provision is to be observed, the government of the country is to be carried on.
The Wigwam declared that the Washington government had no constitutional right to deny representation in Congress to any State.
In its new birth of constitutional liberty, postponed until patriots shall have tired of a government inefficient and venal, the memory of Joshua, laden with fragrance, will cling to hearts that now deplore his death.
Where political rights are not secured to all men by constitutional right, those who are unable to get them by privilege, intrigue to steal what such rights would guarantee.
Insurrections broke out in Spain, Portugal, Naples and Piedmont, and only ended when they obtainedconstitutional government.
Seven centuries have rolled by since then, yet the memory of Arnold of Brescia is ever green; the principles for which he lived and died are now incorporated in every constitutional government on the globe.
He introduced constitutionalgovernment to Italy, Westphalia and Spain.
In fact, he asserted that there were no constitutional provisions laid down or adopted by the people in general convention at Champoeg the year previous.
The journal of the proceedings of this Legislative Committee shows that no regard was paid to any previous laws, or constitutional provisions.
Suddenly he went into one of his violent and constitutional rages.
Then Marais broke into one of those raving fits of temper which were constitutional in him, and to my mind showed that he was never quite sane.
Among other things, he filled all public posts, vacated by their former occupants, who had either resigned on constitutional grounds or had been dismissed, exclusively with Old-Finns.
The members of Parliament meet every third year, and have the power of voting money, altering the constitutional laws of the country, and regulating commercial enterprise.
Five years more of progress such as she has made last year, and Western Australia will become fitted for and obtainconstitutional government.
Hearn, the well-known authority on jurisprudence and constitutional law.
In discussing constitutional questions it is well to remember that, although all the Australian constitutions are founded on analogy with the British, that analogy can easily be carried too far.
The election of delegates to the constitutional convention was held in October, 1867.
Having achieved this constitutional feat, I asked Mr. Mellows if he could grace my dinner with a pint of good wine?
Herein Titbull's was to Titbull's true, for it has a constitutional dislike of all strangers.
Amid all his violence, however, the king's sincere attempt to maintain the outward authority of law made of the Council of Northampton a great event in our constitutional history.
The clergy, who had declined the constitutional oath from pious scruples, were, during the massacre, the peculiar objects of insult and cruelty, and their conduct was such as corresponded with their religious and conscientious professions.
As one of the few marks of sympathy with which his sufferings were softened, the attendance of a confessor, who had not taken the constitutional oath, was permitted to the dethroned monarch.
An unhappy man, named Gobet, constitutional bishop of Paris, was brought forward to play the principal part in the most impudent and scandalous farce ever acted in the face of a national representation.
