This phrase had played not only an important but a decisive part in the great debate between a strict construction of the Constitution and the construction which has prevailed and made it the law of the being of a great National life.
Hoar reflects on the significance of a phrase in the context of constitutional debate.
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His life, so far as he took part in political affairs, was devoted to objects wholly public, never personal.
You said the people of Lowell would not think very highly of me when they saw me riding through the streets in my carriage and knew it was paid for by the money of this bank.
He has fallen at the very gate of an honorable and eminent career, and a thousand hopes are buried in his grave.
But I cannot see it to be my duty to join in a secession from the Whig Party for the purpose of putting Mr.
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