Constitution of the United States
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2 expressionsThe Constitution of the United States4 mentions
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated (English) · The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (English)
“There is no phrase in the constitution which excludes incidental or implied powers.
United States Constitution3 mentions
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery (English)
We have virtually reasserted the same truth in nearly every state constitution since adopted.
in the texts
Construction Construed and Constitutions Vindicated
The federal constitutional text itself, whose preamble, structure, and amendments are closely parsed throughout the passage to determine whether it was made by a consolidated people or by the several states.
In one other view, highly gratifying, these two amendments correspond with the construction I contend for.
But the constitution itself furnishes the plainest correspondent evidence, in its origin, establishment and terms.
It next behooves us to consider whether the term “states” has changed its meaning, by being transplanted from its original nursery, into the constitution of the United States;
The Unconstitutionality of Slavery
The 1789 federal constitution whose text the wider work goes on to examine regarding slavery.
the second embracing the time from the Declaration of Independence to the adoption of the Constitution of the United States in 1789;
We come now to the period commencing with the adoption of the constitution of the United States.
And the question now is, whether it was constitutionally established, authorized or sanctioned by the constitution of the United States?
An Essay on the Trial by Jury
The founding legal document of the United States, cited for its jury and arms provisions.
This right of resistance is recognized by the constitution of the United States, as a strictly legal and constitutional right.
Take, for example, the Constitution of the United States.