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... elections have become a mockery , our legislatures venal , our courts tainted with party spirit , our laws cobwebs , ' which the rich and poor alike break through , and the country , and the government in all its branches , given over ...
... elections have become a mockery , our legislatures venal , our courts tainted with party spirit , our laws cobwebs , ' which the rich and poor alike break through , and the country , and the government in all its branches , given over ...
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... election , some by annual elec- tion ; that the undisputed dominion of the numerical majority , which has been established , will not allow the desires and passions of the hour to be checked by a firm administration of justice ; and ...
... election , some by annual elec- tion ; that the undisputed dominion of the numerical majority , which has been established , will not allow the desires and passions of the hour to be checked by a firm administration of justice ; and ...
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... ELECTION AND ITS RESULTS There was , however , one sad deduction to be made , not from the truth of this description , not from the fidelity of this picture for that is incontestable , but from the content , happiness , and mutual good ...
... ELECTION AND ITS RESULTS There was , however , one sad deduction to be made , not from the truth of this description , not from the fidelity of this picture for that is incontestable , but from the content , happiness , and mutual good ...
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... election , except on the one condition , of the choice of their candidate . The reference of the great sectional controversy to the peaceful arbitrament of the ballot box , the great safety valve of republican institutions , though made ...
... election , except on the one condition , of the choice of their candidate . The reference of the great sectional controversy to the peaceful arbitrament of the ballot box , the great safety valve of republican institutions , though made ...
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... elections of the Federal Legislature should be forever inseparably annexed to the sovereignty of the States ; this Convention doth declare that the same ought to remain to all posterity , a perpetual and fundamental right in the local ...
... elections of the Federal Legislature should be forever inseparably annexed to the sovereignty of the States ; this Convention doth declare that the same ought to remain to all posterity , a perpetual and fundamental right in the local ...
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Seite 26 - O, for a muse of fire, that would ascend The brightest heaven of invention ! A kingdom for a stage, princes to act, And monarchs to behold the swelling scene...
Seite 5 - My hold of the colonies is in the close affection which grows from common names, from kindred blood, from similar privileges, and equal protection. These are ties which, though light as air, are as strong as links of iron. Let the colonies always keep the idea of their civil rights associated with your government ; they will cling and grapple to you, and no force under heaven will be of power to tear them from their allegiance.
Seite 37 - Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all Acts and parts of Acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying the amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed, and that the Union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the United States of America, is hereby dissolved.
Seite 37 - We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in Convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, that the ordinance adopted by us in Convention, on the 23d day of May, in the year of our Lord 1788, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America...
Seite 35 - I am sincerely one of those, and would rather be in dependence on Great Britain, properly limited, than on any nation on earth, or than on no nation. But I am one of those, too, who, rather than submit to the rights of legislating for us, assumed by the British Parliament, and which late experience has shown they will so cruelly exercise, would lend my hand to sink the whole Island in the ocean.
Seite 39 - The judiciary of the United States is the subtle corps of sappers and miners constantly working underground to undermine the foundations of our confederated fabric.
Seite 70 - Determined to keep open a market where MEN should be bought and sold, he has prostituted his negative for suppressing every legislative attempt to prohibit or restrain this execrable commerce.
Seite 43 - The separate independence and individual sovereignty of the several States were never thought of by the enlightened band of patriots who framed this declaration. The several States are not even mentioned by name in any part of...