The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation. — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
I have nine children... and one of them is an invalid. Her mother is obliged to take her away in the winter, and when… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
Nothing can be clearer than that what the Constitution intended to guard against was the exercise by the general government of the power of… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The power of the state to impose restraints and burdens upon persons and property in conservation and promotion of the public health, good order,… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
To hold that Congress has general police power would be to hold that it may accomplish objects not intrusted to the general government, and… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
The framers of the constitution employed words in their natural sense; and, where they are plain and clear, resort to collateral aids to interpretation… — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
No convention on God's foot-stool can, or has a right to, run me and make anything but a Democrat out of me. — Melville Fuller Copy Share Image
