He believed that the South, appealing to the compromises of the Constitution, would sacrifice the Union before it would give up slavery, and in fear of this menace he begged the North to conquer its prejudices.
In doing this, I would not have the Negro deprived of any privilege guaranteed to him by the Constitution of the United States.
Is it true, then, that any right, plainly written in the Constitution, has been denied?
I hold that, in contemplation of universal law and of the Constitution, the Union of these States is perpetual.
All the vital rights of minorities and of individuals are so plainly assured to them by affirmations and negations, guaranties and prohibitions, in the Constitution, that controversies never arise concerning them.
Secure by their courage in the possession of liberty, these rude and hasty legislators were incapable of balancing the powers of the constitution, or of discussing the nice theory of political government.
The writings of the jurists, according to the regulations of the Constitution of Valentinian III.
He conceives that the 8 of the Institutes referred to the constitution of Valentinian III.
Look at our great Declaration of Independence; look even at the constitution of our own Connecticut, and see what is said in these about liberty.
In fifteen of the thirty-one States, Slavery is made lawful by the Constitution, which binds the several States into one confederacy.
And lastly, a good many delegates who have accepted the Constitution in good faith desire its application as soon as possible, and that the Convention should fulfill its promise of abdication, so as to give way to a new Assembly.
In the battalion of federates, they begin by saying that, as the Constitution is now accepted and the convention recognized, it is no longer allowed to protect deputies whom it has declared outlaws: "that would be creating a faction.
Tell them that you have silenced one of the noblest batteries that ever thundered in defence of the Constitution, and bravely spiked the cannon.
And although the theory of the Constitution supposes, when consulted by him, it may freely give an affirmative or negative response, according to the practice, as it now exists, it has lost the faculty of pronouncing the negative monosyllable.
Standing securely upon our conscious rectitude, and bearing aloft the shield of the Constitution of our country, your puny efforts are impotent; and we defy all your power.
Do you expect to execute this high trust by trampling, or suffering to be trampled down, law, justice, the Constitution, and the rights of the people?
The constitution will go down, sir (nautically speaking), in the degeneration of the human species in England, and its reduction into a mingled race of savages and pigmies.
All this, sir, will be the death of the constitution.
The fifth amendment to the constitution of the United States seems to have been framed on the same idea, inasmuch as it provides that "no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.
This right of resistance is recognized by the constitution of the United States, as a strictly legal and constitutional right.
The Town have unanimously agreed to the Constitution with a few Alterations (I think for the better) except the third Article.
To Richard Henry Lee, August 24th Nature of the Constitution--Importance of Amendments.
To the Legislature of Massachusetts, May 31st General Election--European War--Object of the Constitution.
I also inclose the Form of the Constitution as revisd & alterd by the Convention and recommended to the People.
The only manner in which the right of secession could exist in one of the American States, would be by an express reservation to that effect, in the Constitution.
The North has been aroused to the necessity of being just, and of adhering to the conditions of the Constitution; and the recent measures of the country go to prove there is no real disposition, in the masses, to do otherwise.
It might well be questioned whether this provision of the Constitution renders a Senate indispensable to the Government.
There is no common principle of popular sway recognized in the Constitution.
This gives unusual solemnity and authority to the Constitution of 1787, and invests it with additional claims to our admiration and respect.
We may prefer the constitution of Sparta to that of Athens, or the constitution of Venice to that of Florence: but no person will deny that Athens produced more great men than Sparta, or that Florence produced more great men than Venice.
The Constitution of England, thank God, is not one of those constitutions which are past all repair, and which must, for the public welfare, be utterly destroyed.
According to the constitution, the duty of making provision for the discharge of those functions devolved on the parliaments of Great Britain and Ireland.
The fact is that the abolition of the monopoly rendered it absolutely necessary to make a fundamental change in the constitution of that great Corporation.
The universe is, in a sense, ours by prescriptive right and by virtue of the constitution of our minds.
A knowledge of the constitution of the mind of man is a prerequisite for any understanding of the life of society in any or all of its many aspects.
Thus are the new principles of justice established, the grand outlines of the Constitution, the abstract axioms of political truth under the dictatorship of a crowd which extorts not only blindly, but which is half-conscious of its blindness.
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