Atlas Essays, Volume 3Barnes, 1877 |
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Page 84 - That hereafter no Indian nation or tribe within the territory of the United States shall be acknowledged or recognized as an independent nation, tribe, or power with whom the United States may contract by treaty...
Page 112 - But the authority extends no further than to a guaranty of a republican form of government, which supposes a pre-existing government of the form which is to be guaranteed. As long, therefore, as the existing republican forms are continued by the States, they are guaranteed by the federal Constitution. Whenever the States may choose to substitute other republican forms, they have a right to do so, and to claim the federal guaranty for the latter. The only restriction imposed on them is that they shall...
Page 154 - May not the House of Representatives impeach the President for such refusal? And in that case could this court interfere, in behalf of the President, thus endangered by compliance with its mandate, and restrain by injunction the Senate of the United States from sitting as a court of impeachment? Would the strange spectacle be offered to the public world of an attempt by this court to arrest proceedings in that court? These questions answer themselves.
Page 154 - Suppose the bill filed and the injunction prayed for allowed. If the President refuse obedience, it is needless to observe that the court is without power to enforce its process.
Page 89 - ... we think it too firmly and clearly established to admit of dispute, that the Indian tribes residing within the territorial limits of the United States are subject to their authority...
Page 22 - ... in proportion to the population, than in any other country in the world. The...
Page 140 - Is there a constitution on record more complicated with balances than ours? [In the first place] eighteen states and some territories are balanced against the national government. ... In the second place, the House of Representatives is balanced against the Senate and the Senate against the House.
Page 140 - In the fourth place, the judiciary power is balanced against the House, the Senate, the executive power and the state governments. In the fifth place, the Senate is balanced against the president in all appointments to office and in all treaties.
Page 146 - I am free to declare, that if the intent of this bill is to get rid of the judges, it is a perversion of your power to a base purpose; it is an unconstitutional act.
Page 56 - Mr. Justice Field, also speaking for the court, was even more explicit when, in Tomlinson v. Jessup (15 Wall. 459), he said, "the reservation affects the entire relation between the state and the corporation, and places under legislative control all rights, privileges, and immunities derived by its charter directly from the state;" and again, as late as Railroad Company v.