Early History of Vermont, المجلد 3Roscoe Printing House, 1902 |
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الصفحة 130 - SO far inferior, that they had no rights which the white man was bound to respect; and that the negro might justly and lawfully be reduced to slavery for his benefit.
الصفحة 120 - That all men are born equally free and independent, and have certain natural inherent and unalienable rights, amongst which are the enjoying and defending life and liberty; acquiring, possessing and protecting property, and pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.
الصفحة 79 - Congress shall earnestly recommend it to the legislatures of the respective States, to provide for the restitution of all estates, rights, and properties which have been confiscated, belonging to real British subjects, and also of the estates, rights, and properties of persons resident in districts in the possession of His Majesty's arms, and who have not borne arms against the said United States.
الصفحة 146 - That the government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself...
الصفحة 299 - No State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State, or with a foreign Power, . . .
الصفحة 146 - States, and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
الصفحة 130 - Upon these considerations, it is the opinion of the Court that the act of Congress which prohibited a citizen from holding and owning property of this kind in the territory of the United States north of the line therein mentioned, is not warranted by the Constitution, and is therefore void...
الصفحة 145 - Constitution for the United States, and of Amendments thereto, they constituted a General Government for special purposes, — delegated to that Government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of...
الصفحة 181 - Texas by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
الصفحة 182 - In testimony whereof, I have caused the seal of the United States to be affixed to these presents, and signed the same with my hand.