A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared Under the Joint Committee on Printing of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States (with Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise) |
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adopted American amount ANDREW JACKSON appears applied appointed appropriation attention authority bank bill British called carried cause character charge citizens claims commerce communication compliance concluded condition Congress consideration considered Constitution containing continue convention copy course debt December deemed Department desired direct documents duties effect established Executive exercise existing expected expressed favor February force foreign further give given Government hope House of Representatives important improvement increase independence Indians institutions instructions interest January JOHN QUINCY ADAMS lands laws legislative limits March means measures ment minister necessary negotiation objects officers operation opinion passed persons portion ports possession present President principles proceedings proper provisions question reason received referred regard relation removal requesting resolution respect result Secretary secured Senate session South submitted taken tion transmit herewith Treasury treaty tribes Union United vessels WASHINGTON whole
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Page 885 - In the wars of the European powers in matters relating to themselves we have never taken any part, nor does it comport with our policy so to do.
Page 1284 - That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original states, and the people and states, in the said territory, and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ARTICLE I.
Page 1292 - 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 884 - The great rule of conduct for us in regard to foreign nations is, in extending our commercial relations to have with them as little political connection as possible.
Page 1225 - ... a cordial, habitual and immovable attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity ; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety ; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 1179 - States, no appeal shall be allowed to the supreme court of the United States, nor shall any copy of the record be permitted or allowed for that purpose, and that any person attempting to take such appeal shall be punished as for a contempt of court...
Page 958 - States and to continue so long as the reciprocal exemption of vessels belonging to citizens of the United States and their cargoes, as aforesaid, shall be continued, and no longer...
Page 1205 - States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law," nor binding on the citizens of that State or its officers; and by the said ordinance it is further declared to be unlawful for any of the constituted authorities of the State or of the United States to enforce the payment of the duties imposed by the said acts...
Page 1213 - The Constitution of the United" States then forms a government, not a league, and whether it be formed by compact between the States, or in any other manner, its character is the same. It is a Government in which all the people are represented, which operates directly on the people individually, not upon the States — they retained all the power they did not grant.
Page 1208 - This state of things could not be endured, and our present happy Constitution was formed, but formed in vain if this fatal doctrine prevails. It was formed for important objects that are announced in the preamble, made in the name and by the authority of the people of the United States, whose delegates framed and whose conventions approved it. The most important among these objects — -that which is placed first in rank, on which all the others rest — is ' ' to form a more perfect union.
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| Title | A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared Under the Joint Committee on Printing of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States (with Additions and Encyclopedic Index by Private Enterprise) Volume 3 of A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Prepared Under the Joint Committee on Printing of the House and Senate, Pursuant to an Act of the Fifty-second Congress of the United States, United States. President |
| Author | United States. President |
| Compiled by | James Daniel Richardson |
| Publisher | Bureau of National Literature, 1897 |
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