Some States recognize it in their Constitutions, by giving the legislature power to emancipate such slaves as may "have rendered the state some distinguished service," and others by express prohibitory restrictions.

Within these last two hundred years all sorts of temporal power have been wrested from the clergy, and much of their ecclesiastic, the reason or justice of which proceeding I shall not examine; but, that the remedies were a little too violent with respect to their possessions, the legislature hath lately confessed by the remission of their First Fruits.

They failed, as I conceive, not because they made their legislatures courts, but because, under the system they devised, their courts have become legislatures.

A large majority of the members of the legislature elect belonged to that party which had previously refused to vote.

"The whole legislature likewize acts az a court.

And sometimes the legislature reserves in the charter the right to dissolve the company under certain conditions.

With the exception of the few acts which the constitution forbids them to perform, most of which they would not care to perform if allowed, and the few general powers coming within the province of the Federal Government, the States can do whatever their legislatures sanction.

Soon after this he was appointed by the legislature commander in chief of all the forces of the Colony, and for three years devoted himself to recruiting and organizing troops for her defense.

MY FIRST SPEECH BEFORE A LEGISLATURE XIII.

Should the majority of the legislature consist of free-state men, then Kansas would be a free territory.