Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising the Leading Debates and Incidents of the Second Session of the Eighteenth Congress: [Dec. 6, 1824, to the First Session of the Twenty-fifth Congress, Oct. 16, 1837] Together with an Appendix, Containing the Most Important State Papers and Public Documents to which the Session Has Given Birth: to which are Added, the Laws Enacted During the Session, with a Copious Index to the Whole .., Volume 7; Volume 21; Volume 52Gales & Seaton, 1831 |
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... Go- vernment , and the rights and interests of its free and equal ... much capi- in the hands of the bank , because the revenue is received by it ... should stop pay- ment , its promissory notes would still be receivable at every custom ...
... Go- vernment , and the rights and interests of its free and equal ... much capi- in the hands of the bank , because the revenue is received by it ... should stop pay- ment , its promissory notes would still be receivable at every custom ...
Page 167
... from April 1st , 1828 , until the end of his contract , and ordered the pay to be made for the past year . Thus more than five thousand dollars has been paid or engaged to be paid , without sufficient reason , and contrary to law ...
... from April 1st , 1828 , until the end of his contract , and ordered the pay to be made for the past year . Thus more than five thousand dollars has been paid or engaged to be paid , without sufficient reason , and contrary to law ...
Page 169
... more than ten thousand persons are engaged are very material , and should never be changed without great consideration , and very clear advantage . They should be brief , plain , and attended with as little expense or labor as ...
... more than ten thousand persons are engaged are very material , and should never be changed without great consideration , and very clear advantage . They should be brief , plain , and attended with as little expense or labor as ...
Page 173
... should have done , took them ; instead of retaining them in his own ... more influence , more patronage , and a spirit more vin- looked , ) to my sons , in town , requesting them to go as dictive than ... there until half past than thirty years ...
... should have done , took them ; instead of retaining them in his own ... more influence , more patronage , and a spirit more vin- looked , ) to my sons , in town , requesting them to go as dictive than ... there until half past than thirty years ...
Page 185
... much of the increasing revenue , which otherwise would will mainly depend on ... more decisive change the department , depend on ourselves . It differs but ... than revenue ? A little further attention to the history of the paying them as ...
... much of the increasing revenue , which otherwise would will mainly depend on ... more decisive change the department , depend on ourselves . It differs but ... than revenue ? A little further attention to the history of the paying them as ...
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Page 657 - Constitution ; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office of public trust under the United States.
Page 625 - Much more, Sir, is he to be abhorred, who, as he has advanced in age, has receded from virtue, and becomes more wicked with less temptation ; — who prostitutes himself for money which he cannot enjoy, and spends the remains of his life in the ruin of his country.
Page 205 - An act to regulate trade and intercourse with the Indian tribes, and to preserve peace on the frontiers...
Page 319 - Is on the engrossment of the amendment and the third reading of the bill. the amendment was ordered to be engrossed and the bill to be read a third time. The bill was read the third time.
Page 655 - States, and the decision is in favor of such their validity, or where is drawn in question the construction of any clause of the Constitution, or of a treaty or statute of, or commission held under the United States, and the decision is against the title, right, privilege, or exemption specially set up or claimed by either party, under such clause of the said Constitution, treaty, statute, or commission, may be re-examined and reversed or affirmed in the Supreme Court of the United States upon a...
Page 265 - Senate, to make treaties, provided two-thirds of the senators present concur ; and he shall nominate, and by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall appoint ambassadors and other public ministers and consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law.
Page 665 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that, as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 49 - Where the private interests of a member are concerned in a bill or question he is to withdraw. And where such an interest has appeared, his voice has been disallowed, even after a division. In a case so contrary, not only to the laws of decency, but to the fundamental principle of the social compact, which denies to any man to be a judge in his own cause, it is for the honor of the House that this rule of immemorial observance should be strictly adhered to.
Page 657 - ... may, at their discretion, if the cause shall have been once remanded before, proceed to a final decision of the same and award execution.