A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall, 第 1 卷National Publishing Company, 1868 - 676 頁 This book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War. |
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第 8 頁
... reason of this mighty difference ? In the midst of present degradation , we see the glorious fragments of ancient works of art temples , with ornaments and inscriptions that excite wonder and admiration - the remains of a once high ...
... reason of this mighty difference ? In the midst of present degradation , we see the glorious fragments of ancient works of art temples , with ornaments and inscriptions that excite wonder and admiration - the remains of a once high ...
第 13 頁
... was enough for him to know that the plan adopted by him , in this particular , was not without well - established precedents in other ages and countries . But the real controlling reason which determined his course . INTRODUCTION . 13.
... was enough for him to know that the plan adopted by him , in this particular , was not without well - established precedents in other ages and countries . But the real controlling reason which determined his course . INTRODUCTION . 13.
第 14 頁
... reason which determined his course . in the matter was that it was in strict accordance with nature . If writing be ... reasons , are not given . Others , and entirely fictitious ones , are substi- tuted . For unity in the general plan ...
... reason which determined his course . in the matter was that it was in strict accordance with nature . If writing be ... reasons , are not given . Others , and entirely fictitious ones , are substi- tuted . For unity in the general plan ...
第 25 頁
... reason , in accordance with truth and jus- tice , before a resort to arms was had , our once happy and prosperous country would have been saved the wide- spread desolation that now broods over so large a section of it , and the far ...
... reason , in accordance with truth and jus- tice , before a resort to arms was had , our once happy and prosperous country would have been saved the wide- spread desolation that now broods over so large a section of it , and the far ...
第 29 頁
... reason that had induced them at first to enter into it : that is , for their own better protection and security . Those who had the control of the Administra- tion of the Federal Government , denied this right to withdraw or secede ...
... reason that had induced them at first to enter into it : that is , for their own better protection and security . Those who had the control of the Administra- tion of the Federal Government , denied this right to withdraw or secede ...
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第 555 頁 - Canada, acceding to this Confederation, and joining in the measures of the United States, shall be admitted into and entitled to all the advantages of this Union; but no other colony shall be admitted into the same unless such admission be agreed to by nine states.
第 565 頁 - ... Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States. 2 A person charged in any State with Treason, Felony, or other Crime, who shall flee from Justice, and be found in another State, shall on Demand of the executive Authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having Jurisdiction of the Crime.
第 549 頁 - II. Each State retains its sovereignty, freedom, and independence, and every power, jurisdiction, and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States in Congress assembled.
第 550 頁 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
第 570 頁 - 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.
第 570 頁 - Resolved, That the several states composing the United States of America are not united on the principle of unlimited submission to their general government ; but that, by compact, under the style and title of a 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 right to their own self-government ; and that whensoever...
第 558 頁 - Affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief Justice shall preside: And no Person shall be convicted without the Concurrence of two thirds of the Members present.
第 560 頁 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
第 564 頁 - The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.
第 354 頁 - That this Assembly doth explicitly and peremptorily declare that it views the powers of the federal government, as resulting from the compact to which the States are parties, as limited by the plain sense and intention of the instrument constituting that compact : as no further valid than they are authorized by the grants enumerated in that compact...