| Maine. Legislature - 1842 - 1068 páginas
...our privileges. Separate the different parts of this article, and it declares in express terms, that Congress shall make no law abridging the right of...people " to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The language is general, and not confined to particular persons or subjects — it... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 804 páginas
...the people. The first article of the amendments to the Constitution, it is said, provides only that " Congress shall make no law abridging the right of...the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances ; " and this rule is not a law. Sir, this is sticking to the bark of the Constitution... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 414 páginas
...the people. The first article of the amendments to the Constitution, it is said, provides only that " Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people to petition the government fora redress of grievances;" and this rule is not a law. Sir, this is sticking to the bark of the Constitution... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 788 páginas
...by solemn statute ? If the Senate and House of Representatives and the President combined, can pass no law abridging the right of the people to petition the Government, is it not, a fortiori^ incompetent for this House alone to abridge that right? But I deny the propriety... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - 1852 - 876 páginas
...by solemn statute ? If the Senate and House of Representatives and the President combined, can pass no law abridging the right of the people to petition the Government, is it not, a fortiori, incompetent for this House alone to abridge that right? But I deny the propriety... | |
| Walter W. Spooner - 1891 - 684 páginas
...overturned, the throne itself. Among the provisions of the United States Constitution is the following: " Congress shall make no law abridging . . . the right...people ... to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The Courts, with practical unanimity, have interpreted this clause by declaring that... | |
| John Bach McMaster - 1897 - 528 páginas
...liberty of the press, the proslavery men attacked the right of petition. The Constitution provides that " Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the...people ... to petition the government for a redress of grievances." Under this right the antislavery people had long been petitioning Congress to abolish... | |
| Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 478 páginas
...would have Congress openly reject such petitions. The constitutional provision that Congress should make no ' ' law" abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievance was not violated, he claimed, by rejecting a petition in one branch of Congress. Rejection... | |
| Edwin Erle Sparks - 1904 - 524 páginas
...would have Congress openly reject such petitions. The constitutional provision that Congress should make no ' ' law' ' abridging the right of the people to petition the Government for a redress of grievance was not violated, he claimed, by rejecting a petition in one branch of Congress. Rejection... | |
| Almira Larkin White - 1905 - 868 páginas
...several repetitions Mr. Adams said, "read on until I tell you to stop." When he reached the words, " Congress shall make no law abridging the right of...the people to petition the government for a redress of grievance," Mr. Adams said, "that will do." And without previous special preparation spoke for three... | |
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