【英文原著类】Henry Clay’s Remarks in House and Senate(享利克雷在参议院和众议院的讲话).pdf

Henry Clay's Remarks Before The House and Senate of the United States of America
Henry Clay's Remarks
Before The House and
Senate of the United States
of America
by: Henry Clay
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Henry Clay's Remarks Before The House and Senate of the United States of America
Part 1
Henry Clay, "On the Expunging Resolutions," . Senate, 16
January 1837
Mr. President:
WHAT patriotic purpose is to be plished by this Expunging
resolution? What new honor or fresh laurels will it win for mon
country? Is the power of the Senate so vast that it ought to be
circumscribed, and that of the President so restricted that it ought to be
extended? What power has the Senate? None, separately. It can only
act jointly with the other House, or jointly with the Executive. And
although the theory of the Constitution supposes, when consulted by him,
it may freely give an affirmative or negative response, according to the
practice, as it now exists, it has lost the faculty of pronouncing the
negative monosylllable. When the Senate expresses its deliberate
judgment, in the form of resolution, that resolution has pulsory
force, but appeals only to the dispassionate intelligence, the calm reason,
and the sober judgment, of munity. The Senate has no army, no
navy, no patronage, no lucrative offices, no glittering honors, to bestow.
Around us there is no swarm of greedy expectants, re