"Coextensive" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... States.' But it is obvious that, if Congress have power to draft into the armies raised by it any citizens at all (without regard to the fact whether they are, or not, members of militia organizations), the power must be coextensive with the exigencies of the occasion, or it becomes illusory; and the extent of the exigency must be determined by Congress; for the Constitution has left the power without any other check or restriction than the Executive veto. Under ordinary circumstances, the power thus ...
— The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government • Jefferson Davis
... destroyed during the process, that is shown by the production of a raw sore, or of a sore to which a "sit-fast," coextensive to the injury, is firmly attached. This seriously retards recovery. The secreting surface having been destroyed, no new horn can be produced directly from the part, and a new secreting surface and new horn have now ...
— Diseases of the Horse's Foot • Harry Caulton Reeks
... — N. {ant. 216a} parallelism; coextension^; equidistance^; similarity &c 17. Adj. parallel; coextensive; equidistant. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... the twenty-fifth rule of the House of Representatives against petitions on Slavery,—now repealed and dishonored,—the Compromise, as explained and urged, is a curtailment of the actual powers of legislation, and a perpetual denial of the indisputable principle, that the right to deliberate is coextensive with the responsibility for an act. To sustain Slavery it is now proposed to trample on free speech. In any country this would be grievous; but here, where the Constitution expressly provides against abridging freedom of speech, it is a special outrage. ...
— American Eloquence, Volume II. (of 4) - Studies In American Political History (1896) • Various |
