 | Lysander Spooner - Slavery - 1845 - 168 pages
...man not. Again. Slave acts were not "laws" according to any state constitution that was in existence at the time the constitution of the United States was adopted. And if they were' not " laws " at that time, they have not been made so since. 6. The constitution itself,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Political science - 1851 - 462 pages
...decide this important question, the government of the United States and the several State governments, at the time the constitution of the United States was adopted and the States became members of the federal Union, furnished a plain and safe standard, as they were,... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - United States - 1851 - 436 pages
...decide this important question, the government of the United States and the several State governments, at the time the constitution of the United States was adopted and the States became members of the federal Union, furnished a plain and safe standard, as they were,... | |
 | Michigan. Supreme Court, Randolph Manning, George C. Gibbs, Thomas McIntyre Cooley, Elijah W. Meddaugh, William Jennison, Hovey K. Clarke, Hoyt Post, Henry Allen Chaney, William Dudley Fuller, John Adams Brooks, Marquis B. Eaton, Herschel Bouton Lazell, James M. Reasoner, Richard W. Cooper - Law reports, digests, etc - 1860 - 600 pages
...constitutionally assume a power within them not given by the Constitution itself. The Chief Justice admits that "At the time the Constitution of the United States...been adopted in England was equally proper here.'' In this, it seems to us, he admits the framers of the Constitution understood the admiralty jurisdiction... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Law - 1852 - 446 pages
...524 ; Conkling, Pra. 150 ; De Lovio ». Boit, 2 Gall. 448.) I am inclined to the opinion, too, that, at the time the constitution of the United States was adopted, and the words " cases of admiralty and maritime" were introduced into it, and jurisdiction over them was... | |
 | Levi Woodbury - Electronic books - 1852 - 444 pages
...524 ; Conkling, Pra. 150 ; De Lovio r. Boit, 2 Gall. 448.) I am inclined to the opinion, too, that, at the time the constitution of the United States was adopted, and the words 11 cases of admiralty and maritime " were introduced into it, and jurisdiction over them... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1858 - 676 pages
...It is further admitted, that at the time the Constitution was adopted, and our courts of julmiralty went into operation, the definition which had been adopted in England was equally proper here. These admissions form a virtual surrender of anything like a foundation on which the decision of the... | |
 | John Caldwell Calhoun - Biography & Autobiography - 1863 - 438 pages
...decide this important question, the government of the United States and the several State governments, at the time the constitution of the United States was adopted and the States became members of the federal Union, furnished a plain and safe standard, as they were,... | |
 | New York (State). Court of Appeals, George Franklin Comstock, Henry Rogers Selden, Francis Kernan, Erasmus Peshine Smith, Joel Tiffany, Edward Jordan Dimock, Samuel Hand, Hiram Edward Sickels, Louis J. Rezzemini, Edmund Hamilton Smith, Edwin Augustus Bedell, Alvah S. Newcomb, James Newton Fiero - Law reports, digests, etc - 1866 - 724 pages
...in speaking of navigable rivers writers in England defined them as tidal streams ; and the fact that in the old thirteen States the far greater part of the navigable waters •were tide waters, affords a sufficient reason for adopting this definition in most of those States.... | |
 | United States. Supreme Court, Benjamin Robbins Curtis - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 746 pages
...confined to the ebb and flow of the tide. In other words, it is confined to public navigable waters. At the time the constitution of the United States...adopted in England was equally proper here. In the old The Propeller Geneseo Chief v. Fitzhugh. 12 H. thirteen States the far greater part of the navigable... | |
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At the time the Constitution of the United States was adopted, and our courts of admiralty went into operation, the definition which had been adopted in England was equally proper here. 
