Debates in the Senate of the United States on the Judiciary, During the First Session of the Seventh Congress: Also, the Several Motions, Resolutions, and Votes, Taken Upon that Momentous Subject : and a Complete List of the Yeas and Nays, as Entered on the Journals

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For E. Bronson, printed by Thos. Smith, 1802 - Courts - 324 pages
 

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Page 4 - The judiciary system of the United States, and especially that portion of it recently erected, will of course present itself to the contemplation of Congress; and that they may be able to judge of the proportion which the institution bears to the business it has to perform, I have caused to be procured from the several States, and now lay before Congress, an exact statement of all the...
Page 238 - Congrefs may frc:n time to time ordain and eftablifh. The judges, both of the fupreme and inferior courts, fhall hold their offices during good behaviour...
Page 140 - Do not rely on that popular will which has brought us frail beings into political existence? That opinion is but a changeable thing. It will soon change. This very measure will change it. You will be deceived. Do not, I...
Page 315 - No preference fhall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one ftate over thofe of another : nor fhall veflels bound to or from one ftate be • obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.
Page 5 - ' to provide for the more convenient organization of the courts of the United States...
Page 123 - I am far from wishing to overturn it. Though it be not of great necessity, nor even of substantial importance, though it be but a splendid trapping of your government; yet, as it may, by impressing on your current coin the emblems of your sovereignty, have some tendency to encourage a national...
Page 59 - In this extensive country, it cannot but happen that numerous questions respecting the interpretation of the laws, and the rights and duties of officers and citizens must arise. On the one hand the laws should be executed ; on the other, individuals should be guarded from oppression. Neither of these objects is sufficiently assured under the present organization of the judicial department : I therefore earnestly recommend the subject to your serious consideration.
Page 68 - The prefident, vice-prefident and all civil officers of the United States, fhall be removed from office on impeachment for, and conviction of, treafon, bribery, or other high crimes and mifdemeanors.
Page 116 - I say, for argument's sake be admitted that the gentlemen alluded to acted under the influence of improper motives. What then? Is a law that has received the varied assent required by the constitution and is clothed with all the needful formalities thereby invalidated?
Page 110 - Power fhall extend to all cafes, in law and equity, arifing under this Conftitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which fhall be made, under their authority...

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