| Maine. Legislature - 1842 - 1068 pages
...the different parts of this article, and it declares in express terms, that Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people " to petition the government for a redress of grievances." The language is general, and not confined to particular persons or subjects — it... | |
| United States. Congress - Law - 1836 - 680 pages
...What was the language applicable to the question hefore the Senate? It prevented Congress from passing any law " abridging the right of the people to petition the Government," Stc. Was not here a plain and express recognition of the pre-existing right? " Abridge" what? His friend... | |
| Robert Charles Winthrop - History - 1852 - 876 pages
...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 - History - 1852 - 788 pages
...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... | |
| Seabred Dodge Pratt - American poetry - 1852 - 418 pages
...which too much can not be said, by those whose grand, political axiom is "freedom and equality," is the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances. This, it has been said, is the last right which the people have ever been willing to... | |
| Walter W. Spooner - Drinking of alcoholic beverages - 1891 - 684 pages
...itself. Among the provisions of the United States Constitution is the following: " Congress shall make no law abridging . . . the right of the 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 - History - 1897 - 526 pages
...proslavery men attacked the right of petition. The Constitution provides that "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging . . . the right of 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 - United States - 1904 - 478 pages
...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 - History - 1904 - 524 pages
...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... | |
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