A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results ; Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty HallThis book presents Alexander H. Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy, views on the constitutional reasons for the Civil War. |
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Page 537 - ... the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the Sixth Article — of sending and receiving ambassadors — entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective States shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or...
Page 537 - He has constrained our fellow-citizens, taken captive on the high seas, to bear arms against their country ; to become the executioners of their friends and brethren, or to fall themselves by their hands.
Page 537 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 537 - ... the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states — fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the united states — regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the states, provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 537 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce subject to the same duties, impositions, and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 226 - That the said report with the resolutions and letter accompanying the same be transmitted to the several legislatures in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof in conformity to the resolves of the convention made and provided in that case.
Page 537 - ... or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the journal, when it is desired by any delegate ; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page 545 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due.
Page 590 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 356 - ... to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining, within their respective limits, the authorities, rights and liberties, appertaining to them.
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| Title | A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results ; Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall Volume 1 of A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States, Alexander Hamilton Stephens Volume 1 of A Constitutional View of the Late War Between the States: Its Causes, Character, Conduct and Results. Presented in a Series of Colloquies at Liberty Hall, Alexander Hamilton Stephens American culture series Library of American civilization PCMI collection |
| Author | Alexander Hamilton Stephens |
| Publisher | National Publishing Company, 1868 |
| Original from | Harvard University |
| Digitized | Dec 17, 2007 |
| Length | 862 pages |
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