Messages of Gen. Andrew Jackson: With a Short Sketch of His LifeJ.F. Brown and W. White, 1837 - 429 pages |
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... improvements , depopulate the West . The policy of the President toward the Georgia Indians , was stigmatized as cruel and unjust , and his ex- ercise of his constitutional right of Veto , against the Bank bill , was denounced as an act ...
... improvements , depopulate the West . The policy of the President toward the Georgia Indians , was stigmatized as cruel and unjust , and his ex- ercise of his constitutional right of Veto , against the Bank bill , was denounced as an act ...
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... improvement , and the diffusion of knowledge , so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the federal government , are of high importance . Considering standing armies as dangerous to free gov- ernments , 36 JACKSON'S ...
... improvement , and the diffusion of knowledge , so far as they can be promoted by the constitutional acts of the federal government , are of high importance . Considering standing armies as dangerous to free gov- ernments , 36 JACKSON'S ...
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... improvements in the discipline and science of both branches of our mil- itary service , are so plainly prescribed by prudence , that I should be excused for omitting their mention , sooner than enlarging on their importance . But the ...
... improvements in the discipline and science of both branches of our mil- itary service , are so plainly prescribed by prudence , that I should be excused for omitting their mention , sooner than enlarging on their importance . But the ...
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... improvement . Turning our eyes to other nations , our great desire is to see our brethren of the human race secured in the blessings enjoyed by ourselves , and advancing in knowledge , in freedom , and in social happiness . Our foreign ...
... improvement . Turning our eyes to other nations , our great desire is to see our brethren of the human race secured in the blessings enjoyed by ourselves , and advancing in knowledge , in freedom , and in social happiness . Our foreign ...
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... improvement ; and with those which this experience tells us will certainly arise , when- ever power over such subjects may be exercised by the General Government ; it is hoped that it may lead to the adoption of some plan which will ...
... improvement ; and with those which this experience tells us will certainly arise , when- ever power over such subjects may be exercised by the General Government ; it is hoped that it may lead to the adoption of some plan which will ...
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Page 157 - But where the law is not prohibited, and is really calculated to effect any of the objects entrusted to the government, to undertake here to inquire into the degree of its necessity, would be to pass the line which circumscribes the judicial department, and to tread on legislative ground.
Page 249 - Union to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish 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 167 - There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.
Page 422 - 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 220 - 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 194 - But reasoning on this subject is superfluous when our social compact, in express terms, declares that the laws of the United States, its Constitution, and treaties made under it are the supreme law of the land, and, for greater caution, adds "that the judges in every State shall be bound thereby, anything in the constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
Page 191 - States, and more especially" two acts for the same purposes passed on the 29th of May 1828, and on the 14th of July 1832, "are unauthorized by the Constitution of the United States, and violate the true meaning and intent thereof, and are null and void and no law...
Page 207 - Union by the secession of one of its members. When the first was proposed, it was known that it could not be listened to for a moment. It was known, if force was applied to oppose the execution of the laws that it must be repelled by force ; that Congress could not, without involving itself in disgrace and the country in ruin, accede to the proposition ; and yet if this is not done...
Page 198 - ... and support. Were we mistaken, my countrymen, in attaching this importance to the constitution of our country ? Was our devotion paid to the wretched, inefficient, clumsy contrivance which this new doctrine would make it ' Did we pledge ourselves to...
Page 200 - Carry out the consequences of this right vested in the different states, and you must perceive that the crisis your conduct presents at this day would recur whenever any law of the United States displeased any of the states, and that we should soon cease to be a nation. The ordinance, with the same knowledge of the future that characterizes a former objection, tells you that the proceeds of the tax will be unconstitutionally applied. If this could be ascertained with certainty, the objection would,...