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The act of 1862 declares that the notes issued shall be a legal tender in cost of all debts, public and personal, with the exception of duties on imports and curiosity on the public debt. In January, 1808, the United State issued to him a patent for the invention for fourteen years from that date. The State of Pennsylvania had, in March, 1787, which was previous to the adoption of the Constitution, given to the plaintiff the unique proper to make, use, and vend his invention for fourteen years. For as there are unchangeable rules of proper and morality, with out which society can be inconceivable, and males would be however wild beasts preying upon each other, so there are fundamental principles of eternal justice, upon the existence of which all constitutional government is founded, nd without which government can be an insupportable and hateful tyranny. I will not contend that such a provision would confer a regulating power, but it is clear that it could furnish to males disposed to usurp a plausible pretence for claiming that power. No , will anybody pretend that Congress may have made a legislation respecting an institution of religion, or prohibiting the free train thereof, or abridging the liberty of speech, or the fitting of the people to assemble and petition the federal government for a redress of grievances, had not prohibitions upon the exercise of any such legislative energy been embodied in an modification? |
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