When this child of ours wishes to assimilate to its parent, and to reflect with a true filial resemblance the beauteous countenance of British liberty, are we to turn to them the shameful parts of our constitution?
In the stable, fundamental parts of our constitution we made no revolution; no, nor any alteration at all.
Our constitution stands on a nice equipoise, with steep precipices and deep waters upon all sides of it.
The distinguishing part of our constitution is its liberty.
The independence of the judiciary was the felicity of our constitution.
It is, therefore, a great merit in our constitution, that before a minister introduces a measure to Parliament, he must submit it to an intelligence superior to all party, and entirely free from influences of that character.
Our Union is now complete; our constitution composed, established, and approved.
There is one right existing in our constitution, that of the active citizen, but the function of an elector is not a right.
The guardianship, however, is not cast on these persons unless they are of full age, which indeed has been made a general rule in guardianship and curatorship of every kind by our constitution.
But in the earlier days of our constitution, we shall find that much jealousy on the part of our rulers debarred the people from access to the national deliberations.
It therefore concerns us, in regard to our own dignity, and to the privileges of our successours, that we retain the cognizance of this crime in our own hands, in which it is placed by perpetual prescription and the nature of our constitution.
We Englishmen stop very short of the principles upon which we support any given part of our Constitution, or even the whole of it together.
The distinguishing part of our Constitution is its liberty.
I found that our prosperity and dignity arose principally, if not solely, from two sources: our Constitution, and commerce.
Give us our laws--guarantee to us our constitution--and we will be content with almost any form of government.
Our Constitution, on the other hand, provides for the contingencies of growth in the public sentiment only by amendments to the Constitution.
The honorable gentleman from South Carolina has spoken of absolute majorities and majorities concurrent; language wholly unknown to our Constitution, and to which it is not easy to affix definite ideas.
Nor is it conceivable why they are placed, in our Constitution, upon a tenure different from that of all other officers appointed by the executive, unless it be for the same purpose.
But, sire, this tax violates our rights and our constitution," replied Count Palfy.
All that for centuries past has been guaranteed to us by our constitution; all that each king of Hungary, as he came to the throne, has sworn to preserve inviolate.
Give us our constitution, and we will die for our king!
I say it is necessary to compel those powers to reply to us, one of two things; either they will render homage to our constitution, or they will declare against it.
If we deliberate, when we should swear, if our constitution may be again attacked, after having been already twice assailed, what remains for us to do?
Our constitution is but of yesterday, and it requires calm to take root.
I defy," continues he, "the enemies of our constitutionto show the contrary.
Accordingly this power has almost, if not quite, dropped out of the reality of our Constitution.
The relation of Parliament, and especially of the House of Commons, to the executive Government is the specific peculiarity of our Constitution, and an event which frequently happens much puzzles some people as to it.
I am not, of course, now speaking of the middle ages: I am not dealing with the embryo or the infant form of our Constitution; I am only speaking of its adult form.
Important to the history of our constitution, in that proportion are those to be taxed with the most dangerous of all possible falsifications of our history, who have misrepresented either the facts or the principles of those times.
This doctrine is the main pillar of our constitution, and perhaps the finest discovery that was ever made in the theory of government.
The Court, such is the humanity of our constitution, is counsel for you as you are a prisoner.
His capital and inexcusable fault in everything he has written on our constitution is to have sought for evidence upon one side only of the question.
Such appears to be the correct view which we ought to take of the arrangement established by the Creator in this part of our constitution.
In treating of the moral powers, I have considered various feelings as distinct parts of our constitution, each intended to answer a specific purpose in the present scene of moral discipline.
By our constitution we human beings must devote more of our energies to the Future than any other race.
We do not expect to find notable differences between the generations in such a radical feature of our constitution, no matter what particular habits of posture, play, and the like we adopt.
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