Search Images Maps Play YouTube News Gmail Drive More »
Sign in
Books Books
" Congress shall make no law abridging the right of the people "to petition the government for a redress of grievances. "
The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge - Page 223
1919
Full view - About this book

Documents Printed by Order of the Legislature of the State of Maine During ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Register of Debates in Congress: Comprising ..., Volume 1; Volume 12; Volume 64

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...
Full view - About this book

Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851

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...
Full view - About this book

Addresses and Speeches on Various Occasions: 1835-1851

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...
Full view - About this book

Inklings: Containing Sketches of Life, Compositions, Essays, Disputations ...

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...
Full view - About this book

Southern Quarterly Review, Volume 25

Daniel Kimball Whitaker, Milton Clapp, William Gilmore Simms, James Henley Thornwell - 1854 - 588 pages
...the subject. The right secured by the constitution, is, that " Congress shall make no law to abridge the right of the people to petition the government for a redress of grievances." There was no burden, oppression or grievance, peculiar to these petitioners. It was...
Full view - About this book

The Cyclopędia of Temperance and Prohibition: A Reference Book of Facts ...

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...
Full view - About this book

A School History of the United States

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...
Full view - About this book

The United States of America: 1830-1900

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...
Full view - About this book

The United States of America: 1830-1900

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...
Full view - About this book




  1. My library
  2. Help
  3. Advanced Book Search
  4. Download EPUB
  5. Download PDF