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United States From the Discovery of the North American Continent up to the Present Time
United States From the Discovery of the North American Continent up to the Present Time Author:Elisha Benjamin Andrews General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1894 Original Publisher: Cooperative Publication Society Subjects: United States History / United States / General History / United States / Revolutionary Period (1775-1800) History / United States / 20th Century Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the origi... more »nal. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: 1802. CIRCUIT COURT ACT REPEALED. 27 Bandolph, however, who spoke for the administration, concealed their personal dislike of the present incumbents of the circuit courts, and of the methods which had been pursued of forcing their appointments. "The judiciary bill," declared Randolph, defiantly, "was passed to provide offices for the adherents of the Federal party. It is not on account of the paltry expense that I wish to see it put down, but to give the death-blow to the pretension of rendering the judiciary a hospital for decayed politicians; to prevent the State courts from being ingulfed by those of the Union; to destroy the ambition of arrogating to this House the right of evading all constitutional prohibitions."1 By a later act of this session the Federal circuits were rearranged on a plan which served the purposes of judicial administration for nearly seventy years longer, creating no new incumbents, but dispensing with all United States judges of the circuit grade.2 (3.) A new naturalization act of this session removed the stigma which Federalism had affixed, in 1798, to the foreign-born, and restored the requirements of Washington's administration. Five years' residence would once more suffice to make the foreign-born an American citizen, with three years' notice of intention.8 The Alien and Sedition laws had already expired by limitation. In confirmation of the peaceful state of o...« less