A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Volume 20

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Bureau of National Literature, Incorporated, 1917 - Presidents - 7116 pages
 

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Page 8 - The basis of our political systems is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government. But the constitution which at any time exists, 'till changed by an explicit and authentic act of the whole people, is sacredly obligatory upon all.
Page 8 - Whereas it is necessary for the support of government, for the discharge of the debts of the United States, and the encouragement and protection of manufactures, that duties be laid on goods, wares, and merchandises imported: Be it enacted, etc.
Page 11 - ... not patented or described in any printed publication in this or any foreign country before his invention or discovery thereof...
Page 3 - ... that it is bona fide his Intention to become a citizen of the United States, and to renounce forever all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty, and particularly, by name to the prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of which the alien may be at the time a citizen or subject.
Page 34 - President of the United States of America, have caused the said Convention to be made public, to the end that the same and every article and...
Page 2 - That all persons born in the United States and not subject to any foreign power, excluding Indians not taxed, are hereby declared to be citizens of the United States...
Page 3 - Territory; also all courts of record in any state or territory now existing, or which may hereafter be created, having a seal, a clerk, and jurisdiction in actions at law or equity, or law and equity, in which the amount in controversy is unlimited.
Page 11 - British power supported them during the struggles of the latter part of the eighteenth and the early part of the nineteenth century.

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