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..... where they fit in representation of the majesty of the people, of pennsylvania. in that case, the offender would be immediately committed to jail, without the preliminary process of an indictment by a grand jury; and, in ..... that those laws have been violated. the words used in the minister's house, (which is to be considered as a foreign domicil, where the minister resides in full representation of his sovereign, and where the laws of the state do not extend) may be compared to the same words applied to the judges, in a court of justice, ..... then give good security to keep the peace, and be of good behaviour to all public ministers, secretaries to embassies, and consuls, as well as to all the liege people of pennsylvania, for the space of seven years, by entering into a recognizance, yourself in a thousand pounds, and two securities in five hundred pounds each: that you pay .....
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..... operation to the jurisdiction of the state that made it; for jus civile est quod quisque fibi populus constituit; and to a free people particularly, it must appear unreasonable that there should be legislation where there is no representation. 2 inst. 98. there are, however, he acknowledged, cases in which an indirect effect is given to foreign statutes page 1 u.s ..... other state:' and also, that, the free inhabitants of each of these states, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several states; and the people of each state shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other state.' see art. 4. the chief justice, after consideration, delivered the opinion of the court. m .....
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..... we hope never to experience again." the circuit court for the district of north carolina (consisting of iredell justice, and sitgreaves, district judge) made the following representation in a letter jointly addressed to the president of the united states on 8 june, 1792. "we, the judges now attending at the circuit court of ..... "it is a principle important to freedom that in government, the judicial should be distinct from and independent of the legislative department. to this important principle the people of the united states, in forming their constitution, have manifested the highest regard." "they have placed their judicial power not in congress, but in 'courts.' ..... is worthy of remark that in congress the whole legislative power of the united states is not vested. an important part of that power was exercised by the people themselves when they 'ordained and established the constitution.'" "this constitution is 'the supreme law of the land.' this supreme law 'all judicial officers of the .....
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..... . the result of that examination is a conviction that the members of the american confederacy only are the states contemplated in the constitution. the house of representations is to be composed of members chosen by the people of the several states, and each state shall have at least one representative. the senate of the united states shall be composed of two senators .....
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..... the mexicans should entertain these apprehensions was natural, and would readily be believed. they were, if the representation made of their dispositions be correct, about to place themselves much in the power of men who professed a different faith from theirs and who, by making them ..... declarations made by mr. swartwout which constitute the difficulty of this case. on an inquiry from general wilkinson, he said "this territory would be revolutionized where the people were ready to join them, and that there would be some seizing, he supposed, at new orleans." if these words import that the government established by the ..... we will protect their religion and will not subject them to a foreign power, in three weeks all will be settled." this is apparently the language of a people who, from the contemplated change in their political situation, feared for their religion and feared that they would be made the subjects of a foreign power. that .....
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..... that he caused the said vessel to be detained so that the decision of the president of the united states might be had thereon, who afterwards, upon his report and representation, did approve and confirm the said detention. the plaintiff replies that the defendant committed the trespass of his own wrong, and without any such cause, &c.;, issue being ..... do, so that the decision of the president of the united states might be had thereupon, and that the president afterwards, on 3 january, 1809, upon the report and representation of the said collector, approved and confirmed the detention, all which is the same taking, &c.; to this plea there was a general replication and issue, upon the trial ..... for vessels going from provincetown to take water enough on board to last them to boston and for two page 13 u. s. 342 or three weeks, because the people did not like the boston water. that it was usual to take eight or ten barrels on such a voyage. whereupon the judge who tried the cause (chief justice .....
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..... there can be no difference of opinion; but it is contended that they must be limited by that great principle which was asserted in our revolution that representation is inseparable from taxation. the difference between requiring a continent with an immense population to submit to be taxed by a government having no common interest with it ..... from it by a vast ocean, restrained by no principle of apportionment, and associated with it by no common feelings, and permitting the representatives of the american people, under the restrictions of our constitution, to tax a part of the society which is either in a state of infancy advancing to manhood, looking forward to ..... of levying direct taxes may be exercised; but, it is contended for district purposes only, in like manner as the legislature of a state may tax the people of a state for state purposes. without inquiring at present into the soundness of this distinction, its possible influence on the application in this district of the first .....
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..... the grant was page 18 u. s. 361 issued, and the general plan or plat filed in the cause. they also proved that this plan or plat was a correct representation of cane creek, of the west fork thereof, and of the land claimed by them. they also proved that in 1806, prior to the entry on which the plaintiff's ..... , and a corner hickory and white oak, and lines around the said tract (as the defendants then claimed) were marked, and prior to the plaintiffs' entry were esteemed by the people in the neighborhood to have been marked as the defendants' land. the land in dispute lay within the territory ceded to the united states by the indians in 1806, and .....
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..... contract still further corroborates the opinion that this continuing responsibility of the corporation which was held out to the public was not a fraudulent representation for the purpose of enabling gillespie to sell the tickets, but a representation of the fact as then understood. it appears, from the deposition of mr. webb, that all the tickets, amounting to 50,000, were put .....
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..... the mill. an exception was taken to this opinion. the additional encumbrances to the title and the circumstances of lawrence & poindexter might constitute additional objections to the representation contained in the offer page 27 u. s. 55 for assurance, but do not, we think, disprove an insurable interest in those who were still in possession ..... in the circuit court excepted, and the cause is now before this court on those exceptions. the plaintiff in the circuit court had exhibited his policy, the representation on which the contract of insurance was founded; his proofs of title and of loss, the notice which he gave of that loss, together with the ..... of lawrence & poindexter, was plaintiff and the columbian insurance company of alexandria were defendants. the suit was brought on a policy insuring a mill, stated in the representation and in the policy to belong to lawrence & poindexter, the assured. pending the suit, poindexter died, and the suit was continued and tried in the name of .....
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