This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...the first tu-1792, mult excited by the discussion of the Corfstitution had abated, several acts of Congress became the theme of abuse. But they have not yet felt oppression, and they love order too much to be roused into a deliberate commotion, without the intervention of the most wicked artifices. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1855 edition. Excerpt: ...the first tu-1792, mult excited by the discussion of the Corfstitution had abated, several acts of Congress became the theme of abuse. But they have not yet felt oppression, and they love order too much to be roused into a deliberate commotion, without the intervention of the most wicked artifices. They will, it is true, be told, at the meeting of every state Legislature, that Congress have usurped. But this, if unfounded, will be ascribed to the violence of those who wish to establish a belief that they alone can save the individual states from the general vortex, by being elected into the federal councils. " It is much to be regretted that the-judiciary, in spite of their apparent firmness in annulling the pension law, are not, what some time hence they will be, a resource against the infractions of the Constitution on the one hand, and the steady assertor of the federal'rights on the other. So crude-is our judiciary system, so jealous are state judges of their authority, so ambiguous is the language of the Constitution, that the most probable quarter from which an alarming discontent may proceed is the rivalry of these two orders of judges. The mere superiority of talent in the federal judges (if, indeed, it were admitted) can not be presumed to counterbalance the real talents and full popularity of their competitors. At this instant, too, it is possible that the federal judges may not be so far forgetful of their connection with the state governments as to be indifferent about the continuance of their old interest there. This, I suspect, has, on some occasions, produced an abandonment of the true authority of the government. Besides, many severe experiments, the result of which can not be foreseen, cnarrna await the...
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