You well know, sir, that when the Constitution was submitted to the People of the respective States for their adoption or rejection, it awakened the warmest debates of the several State conventions. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Be the responsibility on their heads who raise this novel and extraordinary question of reception, going to the unconstitutional abridgment, as I conceive, of… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Sir, allusion has been made, in an early stage of this debate, to the history of the excitement which once pervaded a considerable part… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The winged words uttered in this House have gone forth to the world, on their mission of good or of evil. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The Normans came over, lance in hand, burning and trampling down every thing before them, and cutting off the Saxon dynasty and the Saxon… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States,… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Upon the Constitution, upon the pre-existing legal rights of the People, as understood in this country and in England, I have argued that this… — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
Here, again, as I conceive, gentlemen forget that this government is a republican one, resting exclusively in the intelligence and virtue of the People. — Caleb Cushing Copy Share Image
