Key-notes of American Liberty: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations, and Acts of Congress, from the Foundation of the Government to the Present Time. With a History of the FlagE. B. Treat & Company, 1866 - 273 pages |
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... of nature's God entitle them , a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . 1 * We hold these truths to be self - evident : DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
... of nature's God entitle them , a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation . 1 * We hold these truths to be self - evident : DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE,
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... causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer , while evils are sufferable , than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed . But when a long train of abuses ...
... causes ; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer , while evils are sufferable , than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed . But when a long train of abuses ...
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... a long time after such disso- lutions , to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers , incapable of annihilation , have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 11.
... a long time after such disso- lutions , to cause others to be elected ; whereby the legislative powers , incapable of annihilation , have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . 11.
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... papers , and effects , against unreasonable searches and seizures , shall not be violated ; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause , supported by oath or affirmation , and AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION . 39.
... papers , and effects , against unreasonable searches and seizures , shall not be violated ; and no warrants shall issue but upon probable cause , supported by oath or affirmation , and AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION . 39.
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... cause , supported by oath or affirmation , and particularly describing the place to be searched , and the persons or things to be seized . ART . V. - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime , unless ...
... cause , supported by oath or affirmation , and particularly describing the place to be searched , and the persons or things to be seized . ART . V. - No person shall be held to answer for a capital or otherwise infamous crime , unless ...
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Page 51 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 269 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Page 33 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 27 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 74 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 77 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those, out of whom...
Page 35 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 225 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Page 11 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 92 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.