Political Quotes

upon the subject of the capture and detention of American fishermen the past season in the Bay of Fundy

To remove all doubt on the subject, I submit to the consideration of Congress the propriety of passing a declaratory act to that effect.

I communicate herewith to both Houses of Congress copies of the alterations in the treaty of peace and friendship of August, 1797, between the United States and the Bashaw Bey of Tunis, concluded at the Palace of Bardo, near Tunis, on the…

The exposure being common to the whole District, the regulation should apply to the whole, to make which Congress alone possesses the adequate power.