The United States Magazine and Democratic Review, Volume 11Langtree and O'Sullivan, 1842 |
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... causes , in the order in which they are placed in a roll hung up in a conspicuous part of the room . The relative ... cause I do not stop to inves- tigate , but I consider the fact as certain , that in the public discussions in France ...
... causes , in the order in which they are placed in a roll hung up in a conspicuous part of the room . The relative ... cause I do not stop to inves- tigate , but I consider the fact as certain , that in the public discussions in France ...
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... cause , has just been resuscitated and is going the round of the French papers . The incident has been transferred to our country , and the scene laid in Boston , and it is looked upon here as a happy example of the judicial probity and ...
... cause , has just been resuscitated and is going the round of the French papers . The incident has been transferred to our country , and the scene laid in Boston , and it is looked upon here as a happy example of the judicial probity and ...
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... cause ) find in this circumstance a compensa- tion for the hazard they encounter , or rather one powerful motive for the commission of the crime , in the pomp and imposing formality of its trial and punishment . This is a state of ...
... cause ) find in this circumstance a compensa- tion for the hazard they encounter , or rather one powerful motive for the commission of the crime , in the pomp and imposing formality of its trial and punishment . This is a state of ...
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... causes assigned to them , I believe , according to their nature , whether civil or criminal . One chamber of the Court ... cause is then carried to the appropriate chamber for final de- adopted , modified , or rejected . And in the 1842 ...
... causes assigned to them , I believe , according to their nature , whether civil or criminal . One chamber of the Court ... cause is then carried to the appropriate chamber for final de- adopted , modified , or rejected . And in the 1842 ...
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... cause is referred for trial to the chamber to which it appropriately belongs . The investigations in criminal cases in the French courts are far more searching than in ours . The necessary facts are collected and arranged with great ...
... cause is referred for trial to the chamber to which it appropriately belongs . The investigations in criminal cases in the French courts are far more searching than in ours . The necessary facts are collected and arranged with great ...
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Page 80 - No : — men, high-minded men, With powers as far above dull brutes endued In forest, brake, or den, As beasts excel cold rocks and brambles rude, — Men who their duties know, But know their rights, and, knowing, dare maintain, Prevent the long-aimed blow, And crush the tyrant while they rend the chain ; These constitute a State; 3 And sovereign law, that State's collected will, O'er thrones and globes elate Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.
Page 75 - All power is inherent in the people, and all free governments are founded on their authority and instituted for their peace, safety and happiness.
Page 145 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.
Page 71 - ... there can be but one supreme power which is the legislative, to which all the rest are and must be subordinate, yet, the legislative being only a fiduciary power to act for certain ends, there remains still in the people a supreme power to remove or alter the legislative when they find the legislative act contrary to the trust reposed in them...
Page 74 - ... of all the various modes and forms of government, that is best, which is capable of producing the greatest degree of happiness and safety, and is most effectually secured against the danger of maladministration; and...
Page 563 - For I thought that the first step towards satisfying several inquiries the mind of man was very apt to run into, was, to take a survey of our own understandings, examine our own powers, and see to what things they were adapted.
Page 245 - Weep no more, woful Shepherds, weep no more, For Lycidas your sorrow is not dead, Sunk though he be beneath the watery floor. So sinks the day-star in the Ocean bed, And yet anon repairs his drooping head, And tricks his beams, and with new-spangled Ore, Flames in the forehead of the morning sky...
Page 343 - Congress be authorized to make such requisitions in proportion to the whole number of white and other free citizens and inhabitants of every age sex and condition including those bound to servitude for a term of years and three fifths of all other persons not comprehended in the foregoing description, except Indians not paying taxes...
Page 337 - ... public service ; to be ineligible to any office established by a particular State, or under the authority of the United States, except those peculiarly belonging to the functions of the first branch, during the term of service, and for the space of after its expiration ; to be incapable of re-election for the space of after the expiration of their term of service, and to be subject to recall.
Page 304 - Tis madness to resist or blame The face of angry heaven's flame ; And if we would speak true, Much to the Man is due Who, from his private gardens, where He lived reserved and austere (As if his highest plot To plant the bergamot) Could by industrious valour climb To ruin the great work of time, And cast the Kingdoms old Into another mould.