No; the people retain all the rights which they have not surrendered; and if the people have not given to the Government the power to deprive them of their elective franchise, they possess it by virtue of citizenship.
But with the adoption of the Constitution of the United States the Federal courts were able to deprive them of this power where it was most needed.
Any proposal to reduce the power of the Senate would jeopardize the prestige and influence of the smaller states no less than the proposal to deprive them of equal representation in that body.
Thirdly, to deprive them of what they already have would be impossible; or at least would be infinitely more mischievous than to grant them more: therefore, no case remained to be adopted but that of concession.
Married women almost universally were opposed to laws which would give them control of their property, being assured by their masculine advisers that this would deprive them of the love and protection of their husbands.
Men would rather lose anything than their votes; they would fight for their right of suffrage, and if anybody attempted to deprive them of it there would be war to the knife and the knife to the hilt.
Why, they say that we deprive them of the privilege of carrying their slaves, as slaves, into the new territories.
Yet the legislature has appointed other persons, with power to remove these officers and to deprive them of their livings; and those other persons have exercised that power.
To deprive them of the common right of participating in the passage of laws which all the citizens enjoyed?
It was a little extraordinary, he said, if this were so; that persons should for so long a time have neglected to embrace a right which, it is now represented, it would be doing them great injury to deprive them of.
A settled plan to deprive the people of all the benefits, blessings and ends of the contract, to subvert the fundamentals of the constitution, to deprive them of all share in making and executing laws, will justify a revolution.
By acknowledging the real authority of these secondary communities (and it was impossible to deprive them of it), they disavowed beforehand the habitual use of constraint in enforcing the decisions of the majority.
It is therefore necessary to try them all in order to deprive them of their authority.
I do not pretend to say that the measure was unnecessary, but it was rigorous to deprive them of 39-40ths of their claims.
Will they rack-rent their tenants in such a manner as to deprive them of the means of improving the estate?
When you are told by one officer and another, that he is instructed to distress our trade, we should, if possible, deprive them of the present excuse.
They also lamented their age, and that familiarity which envy would deprive them of, and that separation which must now be expected, which seemed to them no better than death itself.
Why, they say that we deprive them of the privilege of carrying their slaves as slaves into the new territories.
They say, that in this way we deprive them of going into this acquired territory with their property.
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