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- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Constitution of the Iroquois Nations
pledge to the Confederate Lords that he will live according to the constitution of the Great Peace and exercise justice in all affairs. When the pledge is furnished the Speaker … your Lordship title. The Great Law has decreed that no Lord should end his life with the antlers on his brow. We therefore lay them aside in the room
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Augsburg Confession
have taught to good purpose concerning all estates and duties of life, as to what estates of life and what works in every calling be pleasing to God. Concerning these … observances had won for themselves the exalted title of being the spiritual life and the perfect life. Meanwhile the commandments of God, according to each one’s calling, were without
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Address at Cooper Institute, New York City
them to be sufficient grounds of expediency. No one who has sworn to support the Constitution, can conscientiously vote for what he understands to be an unconstitutional measure, however expedient … Constitution. But we are proposing no such thing. When you make these declarations, you have a specific and well-understood allusion to an assumed Constitutional right of yours, to take
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Dred Scott v. Sandford
authorized by the Constitution to pass, are widely different — are regulated by different and separate articles of the Constitution, and stand upon different principles. And we are satisfied that … same ground by the fifth amendment to the Constitution, which provides that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, and property, without due process
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Speech on the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise at Peoria, Illinois
people in favor of the institution when they came to form a constitution. But in the adjoining Missouri country, where there was no ordinance of ’87 — was no restriction — they … them? For what is it, that their life-long enemy, shall now make profit, by assuming to defend them against me, their life-long friend? I go against the repeal
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?
admitted its justice, and the loftiest eloquence of the British Senate came to its support. But, with that blindness which seems to be the unvarying characteristic of tyrants, since Pharaoh … exhibited, it ought to command respect. He who will, intelligently, lay down his life for his country, is a man whom it is not in human nature to despise. Your
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Compromise of 1850
some associate justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, to support the Constitution of the United States, and faithfully to discharge the duties of their respective offices; which … Union. Whereas the people of California have presented a constitution and asked admission into the Union, which constitution was submitted to Congress by the President of the United States
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Keynote Address at Seneca Falls
sense of right and wrong and looking to the same Being for guidance and support. So long has man exercised a tyranny over her injurious to himself and benumbing … whose wife is obliged to steal from her Husband to supply the necessities of life, — from the Mahometan who forbids pigs dogs women and other impure animals to enter
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Report No. 12 of the Massachusetts School Board
individual, in regard to food, raiment, and shelter. And these necessaries and conveniences of life should be obtained by each individual for himself, or by each family for themselves, rather … constitution is subject to different readings, or that the policy of different administrations has become the subject of party strife; and, therefore, if any thing of constitutional or political
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Self Reliance
does underlie my present, and what is called life, and what is called death. Life only avails, not the having lived. Power ceases in the instant of repose; it resides … ever-blessed ONE. Self-existence is the attribute of the Supreme Cause, and it constitutes the measure of good by the degree in which it enters into all lower forms
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume II, Part B
traces are to be found in the Middle Ages of the passion which constituted the life of the nations of antiquity — I mean patriotism; the word itself … above and beyond the constitution; but in 1830, it was avowedly created by, and dependent on, the constitution. A part, therefore, of the French constitution is immutable, because
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume II, Part A
part of science; and that henceforward all the efforts of the constituted authorities ought to be directed to support the highest branches of learning, and to foster the nobler passion … Human Actions IN the ages of faith the final end of life is placed beyond life. The men of those ages therefore naturally, and in a manner involuntarily, accustom themselves
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume I, Part B
imagine a community so organized by nature, or by its constitution, that it can support the transitory action of bad laws, and that it can await, without destruction, the general … subsistence, would it be possible for him to remain without these things and to support life? Or would not the very instruments of the present superiority of the white, whilst
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Democracy in America, Volume 1, Part A
therefore, in the constitution of the power, but in the constitution of those States which render its existence necessary. In What Respects the Federal Constitution is Superior to that … opinion that the Federal Constitution is superior to all the Constitutions of the States, for several reasons. The present Constitution of the Union was formed at a later period than
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Proclamation Regarding Nullification
ruin and disgrace to the very State whose rights they affect to support. Fellow-citizens of my native State! Let me not only admonish you, as the first magistrate … Great Britain. You were told that this opposition might be peaceably — might be constitutionally made — that you might enjoy all the advantages of the Union and bear none
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Thomas Jefferson’s First Inaugural Address
those associated with you, I look with encouragement for that guidance and support which may enable us to steer with safety the vessel in which we are all embarked amidst … decided by the voice of the nation, announced according to the rules of the Constitution, all will, of course, arrange themselves under the will of the law, and unite
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Constitution of the Confederate States of America
jeopardy of life or limb; nor be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself; nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process … before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the Confederate States under this Constitution, as under the Provisional Government. 3. This Constitution, and the laws
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation
human life. I have endorsed each of these measures, as well as the more difficult route of constitutional amendment, and I will give these initiatives my full support. Each … Each of them is a decisive way to affirm the sanctity of human life. We must all educate ourselves to the reality of the horrors taking place. Doctors today know
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012The Constitution of the United States of America
Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than … into, before the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the Confederation. This Constitution, and the Laws of the United
- Historic Document · May 29, 2012Letter from Birmingham Jail
wrong to urge an individual to cease his efforts to gain his basic constitutional rights because the quest may precipitate violence. Society must protect the robbed and punish the robber … agitators” those of us who employ nonviolent direct action, and if they refuse to support our nonviolent efforts, millions of Negroes will, out of frustration and despair, seek solace