 | Lawrence O'Brien Branch - 1856 - 42 Seiten
...more of sovereignty, and less4 of independence, than an ordinary moneyed corporation. That such a body possesses power to annul rights of property acquired and held under the common law and constitutions bf fifteen States of the Union, appears to me a proposition too monstrous to be entertained for a moment... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 490 Seiten
...more of sovereignty, and less of independence, than ai] ordinary moneyed corporation. That such a body possesses power to annul rights of property acquired...to me a proposition too monstrous to be entertained fora moment in a nation not prepared to revert to barbarism and anarchy. This is not a question of... | |
 | United States. Congress - 1857 - 486 Seiten
...more of sovereignty, and less of independence, than an ordinary moneyed corporation. That such a body possesses power to annul rights of property acquired...constitutions of fifteen States of the Union, appears to mo a proposition too monstrous to be entertained for a moment in a nation not prepared to revert to... | |
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... Congress, constitutes part of a government never sanctioned by the people, confessedly temporary in its character, and liable to be altered or abolished at any moment by act of Congress, and possessing no more of sovereignty, and less of independence,... 