The Constitution in Congress: Descent into the Maelstrom, 1829-1861University of Chicago Press, 2007年12月1日 - 344 頁 This acclaimed series serves as a biography of the U.S. Constitution, offering an indispensable survey of the congressional history behind its development. In a rare examination of the role that both the legislative and executive branches have played in the development of constitutional interpretation, The Constitution in Congress shows how the actions and proceedings of these branches reveal perhaps even more about constitutional disputes than Supreme Court decisions of the time. |
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... citizens to abolish both slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia. The latter request, Adams suggested, might be a proper subject for congressional action, and he therefore recommended that the petitions be referred to ...
... citizen. If the citizen had the right to submit a petition, said Tallmadge, the Senate had a duty to receive it; "for it is in vain to grant the right on the one hand, without incurring the obligation on the other."32 James Buchanan of ...
... citizens by what means you have arrived at such a result. It is in vain to tell them you have made no law prohibiting the people from assembling and petitioning the people for a redress of grievances, if, when their petition is ...
... citizen petitions were entitled to greater consideration than bills introduced by the legislators themselves. I have little sympathy for Calhoun's position on slavery in the District of Columbia, and I think it was foolish or ...
... citizens from assembling, consulting, and petitioning for a redress of grievances. They recollected the acts commonly called the riot acts, and therefore they inserted the provision contained in the constitution.60 They did so, it seems ...
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Diplomacy Expansion and Force | 49 |
The Evil Empire | 131 |
Conclusion | 254 |
Dramatis Personae | 257 |
Principal Officers 18291861 | 279 |
The Constitution of the United States | 287 |
Index | 303 |