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Page 269 - Congress has no more power to make a slave than to make a king : no more power to institute or establish slavery than to institute or establish...
Page 165 - During the latter part of the seventeenth and the beginning of the eighteenth centuries...
Page 175 - THE CONSTITUTION OF THE COUNTRY, THE UNION OF THE STATES, AND THE ENFORCEMENT OF THE LAWS...
Page 85 - No one shall run on the Sabbath day, or walk in his garden, or elsewhere, except reverently to and from meeting.
Page 18 - States as may be designated, and the Academy shall, whenever called upon by any department of the Government, investigate, examine, experiment, and report upon any subject of science or art, the actual expense of such investigations, examinations, experiments, and reports to be paid from appropriations which may be made for the purpose, but the Academy shall receive no compensation whatever for any services to the Government of the United States.
Page 76 - SOCIETY, of which the sole object shall be to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures without note or comment.
Page 430 - The court is unanimously of opinion, that the appellate power of the supreme court of the United States does not extend to this court, under a sound construction of the constitution of the United States ; that so much of the 25th section of the act of congress to establish the judicial courts of the United States...
Page 92 - An act to discontinue, in such manner, and for such time as are therein mentioned, the landing and discharging, lading or shipping, of goods, wares, and merchandise, at the town and within the harbor of Boston, in the province of Massachusetts Bay, in North America...
Page 130 - Resolved, That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and laws, but in derogation of both.
Page 21 - Sweden, and, after some delay, confirmed by the senate on the 18th of January, 1814; at the same time he was confirmed as one of the commissioners to negotiate a treaty of peace with Great Britain. Some of these changes, and those formerly. noticed, during the administration of Mr. Madison, occurred in consequence of dissensions and dissatisfaction among the leaders of the democratic party, in Congress and in the cabinet.