Proceedings of the ... Annual Sessions of the Texas Bar Associationorder of the Association, 1882 - Bar associations |
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A. J. PEELER Administration and Remedial adopted amendment annual address annual dues annual meeting appointed Austin B. H. BASSETT Bellville Board of Directors Brenham By-Laws C. C. GARRETT Castroville Chairman CHAS choses in action civil Cleburne Commercial Law Committee on Commercial Committee on Jurisprudence Committee on Legal Committee on Publication Constitution Corsicana Court of Appeals creditor criminal Cuero Dallas Dallas Austin Died duty Education and Admission elected equity execution Fort Worth Galveston Gonzales Grievances and Discipline Hillsboro honor Houston John judges judgment Judicial Administration jurisdiction Jurisprudence and Law jury justice LaGrange Lampasas Law Reform lawyer Legal Education Legislature levy MORSE motion National Bar Association NORMAN G O. M. ROBERTS officers person plaintiff present proceedings profession Remedial Procedure rules San Antonio Secretary SECTION session statute Stayton Supreme Court Terrell Texas Bar Association thereof tion vote Waco WAELDER Weatherford Worth writ
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Page 49 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men at all times and under all circumstances. No doctrine involving more pernicious consequences was ever invented by the wit of man than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 50 - Is it not the glory of the people of America, that whilst they have paid a decent regard to the opinions of former times and other nations, they have not suffered a blind veneration, for antiquity, for custom, or for names, to overrule the suggestions of their own good sense, the knowledge of their own situation, and the lessons of their own experience?
Page 51 - ... bright constellation, which has gone before us, and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages, and blood of our heroes, have been devoted to their attainment.
Page 50 - They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society. They reared the fabrics of governments which have no model on the face of the globe.
Page 46 - America, agree to certain articles of confederation and perpetual union between the states of New Hampshire, Massachusetts Bay, Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. ... ARTICLE 1. The style of this confederacy shall be "The United States of America.
Page 45 - America, given by deputies elected for the special purpose ; but on the other, that this assent and ratification is to be given by the people, not as individuals composing one entire nation, but as composing the distinct and independent states to which they respectively belong. It is to be the assent and ratification of the several states, derived from the supreme authority in each state — the authority of the people themselves. The act, therefore, establishing the constitution, will not be a national,...
Page 50 - Had no important step been taken by the leaders of the Revolution for which a precedent could not be discovered, no Government established of which an exact model did not present itself, the People of the United States might, at this moment, have been numbered among the melancholy victims of misguided councils, must at best have been laboring under the weight of some of those forms which have crushed the liberties of the rest of mankind.
Page 40 - Union, at a time and place to be agreed on, to take into consideration the trade of the United States ; to examine the relative situation and trade of the said States; to consider how far a uniform system in their commercial regulations may be necessary to their common interest and their permanent harmony...
Page 49 - Those great and good men foresaw that troublous times would arise, when rulers and people would become restive under restraint, and seek by sharp and decisive measures to accomplish ends deemed just and proper; and that the principles of constitutional liberty would be in peril, unless established by irrepealable law. The history of the world had taught them that what was done in the past might be attempted in the future.
Page 29 - All goods, chattels, moneys, and other property, both real and personal, or any interest therein of the judgment debtor, not exempt by law, and all property and rights of property seized and held under attachment in the action, shall be liable to execution.