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Petitions Quotes by Caleb Cushing
- 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 House…
- And if this House is to be scared, by whatever influences, from its duty, to receive and hear the petitions of the People, then I…
- It is impossible, in my mind, to distinguish between the refusal to receive a petition, or its summary rejection by some general order, and the…
- The right of petition is an old undoubted household right of the blood of England, which runs in our veins.
- I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them…
- The proceedings of this House in 1790, in reference to petitions on the matter of the slave trade, and of slavery in the States, have…
- The right of petition, I have said, was not conferred on the People by the Constitution, but was a pre-existing right, reserved by the People…
- If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put…
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