 | James Madison, Henry Dilworth Gilpin - 1840 - 702 Seiten
...better to prevent the passage of an improper law, than to declare it void when passed. Mr. RUTLEDGE. If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...the Constitution. Will any State ever agree to be boun4 hand and foot in this manner ? It is worse than making mere corporations of them, whose by-laws... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1887 - 490 Seiten
...the articles of union. In debating this proposition on the 23d of August, John Rutledge (SC) said ; " If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought to damn, the constitution." Ellsworth and Sherman of Connecticut, seconded this emphatic denunciation, by vigorous statements which... | |
 | George Van Santvoord - 1854 - 554 Seiten
...Union," Rutledge warmly opposed the proposition. "This alone, if nothing else," he exclaimed, " will damn, and ought to damn the Constitution. Will any...of them, whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle."f And so, too, when the same gentleman proposed an amendment, " that no act of the Legislature,... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1855 - 682 Seiten
...it were more than once equally divided. Rutledge viewed the proposition with indignation, and thus denounced it. ' If nothing else, this alone would...bound hand and foot in this manner? It is worse than milking mere corporations of them, whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle.' He was equally... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1862 - 108 Seiten
...legislature, with the general interests and harmony of the Union." Mr. Rutledge, from the same State, said : " If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...ever agree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ?" The motion was withdrawn. The extracts which I have given from the constitutional debates show that... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1863 - 680 Seiten
...better to prevent the passage of an improper law, than to declare it void, when passed. Mr. RUTLEDGE. If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle. Mr. ELLSWORTH observed, that the power contended for would require, either that all laws of the state... | |
 | Charles Chauncey Burr - 1863 - 120 Seiten
...legislature, with the general interests and harmony of the Union." Mr. Kutledge, from the same State, said : " If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...ever agree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ?" The motion was withdrawn. The extracts which I have given from the constitutional debates show that... | |
 | Henry Flanders - 1874 - 666 Seiten
...it were more than once equally divided. Rutledge viewed the proposition with indignation, and thus denounced it. ' If nothing else, this alone would...whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle.' He was equally opposed to investing the National Government with power to erect new States, within,... | |
 | Patrick Cudmore - 1875 - 278 Seiten
...and harmony of the Union, provided that two-thirds of the members of each house assent to the same." "If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought...whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle." Madison papers 468. If the fathers of the constitution had lived until now, what would they think of... | |
 | Jonathan Elliot - 1876 - 678 Seiten
...better to prevent the passage of an improper law, than to declare it void, when passed. Mr. RUTLEDGE. If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought to damn, the Constitution. Will any state ever ayree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ? It is worse than making mere corporations of them,... | |
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If nothing else, this alone would damn, and ought to damn, the Constitution. Will any State ever agree to be bound hand and foot in this manner ? It is worse than making mere corporations of them, whose by-laws would not be subject to this shackle. 
