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  • We may not part until you have promised to comply with my requisition.   (source)
    requisition = official demand to be given something
  • The Red Coast Project had initially requisitioned Ye because of a paper on an attempted mathematical model of the sun she had published in the Journal of Astrophysics as a graduate student.†   (source)
  • A requisition has been made and an appointment has been granted—by the regional undersecretary of cultural affairs.†   (source)
  • SD-03 found the serial number that matched the one on my requisition form.†   (source)
  • I shall have to ask for a requisition for more A— 21 cards.†   (source)
  • Madame Ruelle finds Marie-Laure that evening in a requisitioned school.†   (source)
  • Suddenly, like a jack-in-a-box, a lieutenant from the Dorsets popped up from the cellar of a municipal building that had been requisitioned for a headquarters.†   (source)
  • No one questioned her, she was a familiar sight and she had the requisition and the pass and everything.†   (source)
  • I have requisitioned more perimeter guards.†   (source)
  • A few boats would be requisitioned from the harbor and pressed into service, and in the morning everyone would go.†   (source)
  • We got Gearhart to requisition some gloves and baseballs from battalion supply.†   (source)
  • If you want tubing, machine work, aluminum sheeting, just tell Leon Ferro and I'll sign his requisition.†   (source)
  • The toilets and floodlights and all other equipment would have had to be borrowed or requisitioned.†   (source)
  • The boy had been caught stealing some of the requisitioned hay in a barn, probably just an armful.†   (source)
  • The council met and requisitioned all provisions in the three houses, and these were rationed, with most going to the children, and Saeed and Nadia getting a handful of almonds each one day, and a tin of herring to share the next.†   (source)
  • He knows that all Ratched has to do is pick up that phone you see sitting at her elbow and call the supervisor and mention, oh, say, that the doctor seems to be making a great number of requisitions for Demerol-†   (source)
  • The morning found the telegraph in active requisition, flashing up and down all lines by which a man might have left Cottonville or Watauga.†   (source)
  • A list of Party members who were late paying their dues, or a requisition for more toilet paper?†   (source)
  • You have no authority to requisition stock from us.†   (source)
  • After meeting with the CIA we requisitioned four AT-4 missile launchers, tear gas (CS) grenades, flashbangs, and fragmentation grenades.†   (source)
  • Each day Tsugi—"Sue"—requisitioned a steer from the slaughterhouse and fed it through her gas grinder.†   (source)
  • Requisitioning.†   (source)
  • He rummaged through Rosa's drawers, questioned the servants one by one, and harassed Nana until she was beside herself; finally his search led to the decanter of brandy, which he requisitioned instantly.†   (source)
  • Her lips, pursed so tightly they sometimes lost all their color, as if all her blood was requisitioned to her hands.†   (source)
  • My apologies, Captain," said Mr. Black, "but we need to requisition your ship for reasons of the utmost urgency, hence the regrettable lack of formality."†   (source)
  • She swore she'd risk the morass of requisition for a new unit if this one just held out for one more case.†   (source)
  • You bring us our requisitions by O-five-hundred tomorrow morning or I'll get to Saigon and personally blow you into the wall of whatever whorehouse you're frequenting.†   (source)
  • She requisitioned the only remaining police van and drove directly to Stallarholmen.†   (source)
  • I'm not going to requisition a new typewriter.†   (source)
  • It had been a long time since I had heard the Bear in top form, using his spectacular voice like a weapon requisitioned from ordnance.†   (source)
  • I recalled then the multiple requisitions I had just sent by courier to Rangoon for morphine and ether, as our supply for surgery was curiously dwindling, despite our not having conducted any recent procedures.†   (source)
  • So, for every transfer, and for every ten requisitions, five discharges, et cetera, et cetera, toga virilis, we have to do an execution.†   (source)
  • Defense: States Requisitioned†   (source)
  • One farmer had a stand offering cold milk for sale, at outrageous prices, and after Chamberlain was past there was a scuffle and some of the men requisitioned the milk and told him to charge it to the U.S. Guvmint.†   (source)
  • I might be able to requisition a gallon or two here and there but then the word would get around and they'd be watching for us.†   (source)
  • The Resident in a particular country would make a requisition.†   (source)
  • The requisitioned supplies were found to contain a whole jar of cocaine, to which the partisan chief had recently become addicted.†   (source)
  • In former days the truck had been a delivery van for a great Melbourne store; it had been requisitioned at the conclusion of the war and painted naval grey.†   (source)
  • Uh, we will have to requisition half of that supply for official use— public notices, committee transactions, and the like.†   (source)
  • Rhodopsin researchers were being requisitioned by the police.†   (source)
  • The only way the computer here in the Battle School could have got that picture was by requisitioning it from a landside computer.   (source)
    requisitioning = officially requesting, demanding, or taking something
  • Here are the requisitions.   (source)
    requisitions = officially requests, demands, or takings of things; or the forms used to make such requests
  • Yossarian was warm when the cold weather came because of Orr's marvelous stove, and he might have existed in his warm tent quite comfortably if not for the memory of Orr, and if not for the gang of animated roommates that came swarming inside rapaciously one day from the two full combat crews Colonel Cathcart had requisitioned — and obtained in less than forty-eight hours — as replacements for Kid Sampson and McWatt.   (source)
    requisitioned = officially requested, demanded, or taken
  • The military must have requisitioned all the lorries.†   (source)
  • But the system of requisitions hasn't worked.†   (source)
  • The states ignored requisitions for money and men.†   (source)
  • At first, a few States didn't fulfill the Union's requisitions.†   (source)
  • Some people say that State requisitions will make up the money the federal government will need.†   (source)
  • It has been asked, why not just omit the ambiguous power and rely on State requisitions?†   (source)
  • Quotas and requisitions are impractical and unjust.†   (source)
  • They would not pay their requisitions to advance their plans for personal aggrandizement.†   (source)
  • Congress asks the States for money [requisitions the States] to administer the United States.†   (source)
  • In the future, will the States fulfill their requisitions any better than they do now?†   (source)
  • The national government must send troops to the State to the State to fulfill its requisitions.†   (source)
  • The principle of quotas and requisitions creates this evil.†   (source)
  • Congress has made requisitions that the State legislatures have had to fulfill.†   (source)
  • It is very easy for States to not fulfill their requisitions.†   (source)
  • The illogical system of quotas and requisitions must be changed.†   (source)
  • Requisitioning, assessment, and taxation of members of the propertied classes.†   (source)
  • All that comes from the requisitioning we did when the Red Army occupied eastern Siberia.†   (source)
  • The Sixers used these droids primarily as gofers, to run errands and fill equipment and ammo requisitions for the troops stationed outside.†   (source)
  • But given the imperative of feeding the cities, the precipitous decline in the harvest was met with increased quotas and requisitions enforced at gunpoint.†   (source)
  • They hand him off to an American clerk in a requisitioned hotel transformed into a disarmament center.†   (source)
  • Still, Emily thought they should consider themselves lucky to have evacuees because at one point it had looked like the whole house was going to be requisitioned for use by the army.†   (source)
  • The room Werner and Bernd are given, on the top floor of a requisitioned hotel in the city within the walls, is like a place that time wants no part of: three-hundred-year-old stucco quatrefoils and palmate capitals and spiraling horns of fruit festoon the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Her uncle has been hearing rumors on his radio that across the Channel, in England, a tremendous armada is gathering, ship after ship being requisitioned—fishing vessels and ferries retrofitted, equipped with weapons: five thousand boats, eleven thousand airplanes, fifty thousand vehicles.†   (source)
  • A company in Berlin is producing their transceiver, and already some of their units are coming back from what Hauptmann calls "the field," blown apart or burned or drowned in mud or defective, and Werner's job is to rebuild them while Hauptmann talks into his telephone or writes requisitions for replacement parts or spends whole fortnights away from the school.†   (source)
  • She requisitioned the report.†   (source)
  • "I'm requisitioning your horses.†   (source)
  • I have obtained for you the top priority on copper wire, the first claim, the uppermost ration level, I've given you all the cards, certificates, documents and requisitions-what else do you want?†   (source)
  • She requisitioned their passport photographs and identified at once the woman she had followed from Bellmansgatan as the Susanne Linder who lived in Nacka.†   (source)
  • I created the other three hundred men, requisitioned the money for their training and supply, took three hundred real cavalrymen from the Russian front, sent them home to their families, changed their names slightly, and, voila, my ghost unit, integrated platoon by platoon, man by man, with the one that really exists.†   (source)
  • The sound it made when the mechanism and basic physics Still holding the gun, she cued up the disc she'd requisitioned and watched Sharon DeBlass's murder again.†   (source)
  • Jerker requisitioned it.†   (source)
  • Either the requisitions were not enforced or they were enforced by the military, which killed the innocent and the guilty.†   (source)
  • Congressional requisitions are constitutionally binding on the States; the States have a legal duty to furnish the required supplies.†   (source)
  • Remember, if internal taxation by the Union is really inconvenient, the federal government may stop using it and use State requisitions instead.†   (source)
  • Even if federal requisitions could be enforced, the inequality between States' wealth alone would eventually destroy the American Union.†   (source)
  • Quotas/Requisitions, States Unequal†   (source)
  • Second, if the Union returns to using State requisitions, the constitutional power of direct taxation will have a strong influence.†   (source)
  • We can't depend on State requisitions.†   (source)
  • When the States know that the Union can go directly to the people, they will be motivated to fulfill their requisitions.†   (source)
  • Quotas, Requisitions to Raise Armies†   (source)
  • State Requisitions Create Bad Situation†   (source)
  • State Requisitions Still Possible†   (source)
  • And whenever requisitions are used, it will make the Union weak, create conflict between the federal government and the States, and between the States.†   (source)
  • State requisitions don't work.†   (source)
  • The authors of the Articles assumed that the States would be aware of their best interests and duty to the Union and they would fill the federal requisitions.†   (source)
  • A group of four boys came in a week after Jim's shirt had been requisitioned; it brought the number up to twenty-five and shifted the balance to more boys than girls.†   (source)
  • All countersigned indents and requisitions are costed here and are presented to the Naval Attaché at your embassy in Canberra, and forwarded by him to Washington for eventual settlement.†   (source)
  • No signals now arrived for him to deal with; once a week he signed a few stores requisitions as a matter of form, though the stores they needed were supplied from dockyard sources with a disregard of paper work.†   (source)
  • These candles, matches, coffee, tea, writing materials, and so on all come from requisitioned military stores, partly Czech, partly English and Japanese.†   (source)
  • Lidochka, the representative of the Central Committee, did not hear the partisan leader asking him to stop and continued his tired patter: "By its policy of looting, requisitioning, violence, shooting, and torture the bourgeois militarist regime in Sibera is bound to open the eyes of the gullible.†   (source)
  • Professors' wives who, when times had been hard before, had secretly baked white rolls and sold them in defiance of the regulations, now sold them openly at some bicycle repair shop or other which had been requisitioned and left unused all these years.†   (source)
  • Once that task was completed, I submitted an Executive Oologist Supply Requisition Order.†   (source)
  • And not even one connected with the I.F…. That takes requisitionary powers.†   (source)
  • The sentries verified the requisition and stepped aside, permitting SD-03 to roll into the cage.†   (source)
  • She went to phone the blood bank on Level II and asked them to hurry on the requisition.†   (source)
  • You being primary, I figured you could requisition me a sample.†   (source)
  • They were only four days' ride from the Belvedere, and would requisition no more supplies.†   (source)
  • It took nearly twenty minutes for her to requisition copies of the discs for the three homicides.†   (source)
  • Different Papers have explained the consequences of the requisition system.†   (source)
  • During the recent war, the requisition system made a vigorous and economical defense very difficult.†   (source)
  • I could requisition those for him, I think, if I had his prescription.†   (source)
  • Now, see here, Caroline, it is just a temporary requisition, in the public interest.†   (source)
  • She'd heard rumors of tricks you could play with nanotech glue, but uglies weren't allowed to requisition it.†   (source)
  • SD-03 transmitted its equipment requisition order to them—an order that I myself had submitted on the Sixer intranet two days earlier.†   (source)
  • If we want a picture, we have to get a requisition, but if the mind game program determines that the picture is necessary.†   (source)
  • Like the flash drive, I'd obtained these items by submitting an intranet requisition form, then had them delivered to an empty cubicle on my floor.†   (source)
  • I knew that I needed to be able to take some of the Sixers' data with me when I escaped, so earlier in the week, I'd used my intranet admin account to submit a bogus hardware requisition form.†   (source)
  • Get a written priority requisition on my desk before three o'clock this afternoon; and it may-just may-get processed tomorrow.†   (source)
  • Requisition a new one.†   (source)
  • Taylor squinted upward at a lightening sky, "I expect he's already under way He advises me that there is a shoe factory in the town and his men intend to, ah, requisition some footgear.†   (source)
  • They decided that all the material on Svensson's desk, including Millennium's computer, would have to be confiscated and that Bublanski would return with a warrant if necessary to requisition the material that Blomkvist had already removed.†   (source)
  • Sergeant Towser was not permitted to requisition another six-man tent from Group while Yossarian was living in one alone.†   (source)
  • Colonel Cathcart couldn't possibly requisition so many inexperienced replacement crews at one time without causing an investigation.†   (source)
  • After the observer rappelled down, Alessandro was all alone in a miraculous cabin that had taken three hundred alpinists and artisans four months to requisition from the rock, and on account of which fifteen men lay buried on the glacier and two had died in falls.†   (source)
  • I've already put in a requisition for two majors, four captains and sixteen lieutenants to give you a hand.†   (source)
  • They were wondering why you couldn't requisition some of the replacement crews that are waiting in Africa to take their places and then let them go home.†   (source)
  • Congress can requisition (demand that each State send a specific amount) men and money and control the army and navy.†   (source)
  • Under the Articles of Confederation, when the federal government needs to raise troops it must requisition quotas from the States.†   (source)
  • For example, the United States can requisition men and money, but it has no authority to directly raise either from individual citizens.†   (source)
  • The present Congress can requisition any amount of money from the States and the States are constitutionally bound to furnish it.†   (source)
  • It so happened that Tiagunova had a job as assistant at the Pazhinsk pharmacy, whose stock the doctor was about to requisition.†   (source)
  • With all the powers they have given him he could requisition the Varykino timber without so much as telling Mikulitsyn or us, and he knows that we wouldn't protest.†   (source)
  • According to Richard, there was talk of requisitioning a school and opening an auxiliary hospital.†   (source)
  • But when the news trickled back that Lee had issued orders that no private property in Pennsylvania should be touched, that looting would be punished by death and that the army would pay for every article it requisitioned—then it needed all the reverence the General had earned to save his popularity.†   (source)
  • It's a great warren of a place, but we've only requisitioned the ground floor and half a dozen bedrooms.†   (source)
  • The troops, too, were regrouped in such barracks as had not been requisitioned, and settled down to the garrison life of the past.†   (source)
  • Now that the sports fields had been requisitioned, all that was of the past, and Gonzales was feeling-and showed it-at a loose end.†   (source)
  • This hospital, a requisitioned schoolhouse, now contained five hundred beds, almost all of which were occupied.†   (source)
  • In the evening, at Rieux's apartment, where he had come to live now that the hotel was requisitioned as a quarantine center, he paid little or no attention to Grand and the doctor when they read over the day's statistics.†   (source)
  • Thus Tarrou, when his hotel was requisitioned, had gone to live with Rieux, and now the Father had to vacate the lodgings provided for him by his Order and stay in the house of a pious old lady who had so far escaped the epidemic.†   (source)
  • How Anne's more rigid requisitions might have been taken is of little consequence.†   (source)
  • Some are petitioning the State to dissolve the Union, to disregard the requisitions of the President.†   (source)
  • If not too refined, at all events too remote, too shadowy, and unsubstantial in his modes of development to suit the taste of the latter class, and yet too popular to satisfy the spiritual or metaphysical requisitions of the former, he must necessarily find himself without an audience, except here and there an individual or possibly an isolated clique.†   (source)
  • There were seniors who had requisitioned a chance-met Rajah's elephant, in the name of St Francis Xavier, when the Rains once blotted out the cart-track that led to their father's estate, and had all but lost the huge beast in a quicksand.†   (source)
  • If I could convince myself that I have any right to be satisfied with men as they are, and to treat them accordingly, and not according, in some respects, to my requisitions and expectations of what they and I ought to be, then, like a good Mussulman and fatalist, I should endeavor to be satisfied with things as they are, and say it is the will of God.†   (source)
  • And I deprive my people to that end with requisitioning for you—supplies, to build your strength and strength of heart.†   (source)
  • But he had used a hammock; that, Captain Fellows supposed, he must have regarded as a requisition.†   (source)
  • Learning that military supplies were being allocated for various kinds of reconstruction, he got requisition slips for "conversion materials" from the prefectural government and began a hunt for things he could use or sell.†   (source)
  • The planks were called into requisition to cross soft places.†   (source)
  • Hence it is, that at times like these the drugg, comes into requisition.†   (source)
  • He and his books were in frequent requisition as to property confiscated and made national.†   (source)
  • The slate comes into requisition again, but the word he wants to write he cannot remember.†   (source)
  • The arm of his tyrant grew weaker, and was finally palsied; and then the constable's services were in constant requisition.†   (source)
  • Her entreaty had no effect on Tom: he only said again what he had said before; and it was not merely Tom, for the requisition was now backed by Maria, and Mr. Crawford, and Mr. Yates, with an urgency which differed from his but in being more gentle or more ceremonious, and which altogether was quite overpowering to Fanny; and before she could breathe after it, Mrs. Norris completed the whole by thus addressing her in a whisper at once angry and audible—"What a piece of work here is…†   (source)
  • 'I am requested, sir, to express a hope,' said Mr Pugstyles, with a distant bow, 'that on receiving a requisition to that effect from a great majority of your constituents, you will not object at once to resign your seat in favour of some candidate whom they think they can better trust.'†   (source)
  • I found that my services were constantly called into requisition for the falsification of business, and the mystification of an individual whom I will designate as Mr. W. That Mr. W. was imposed upon, kept in ignorance, and deluded, in every possible way; yet, that all this while, the ruffian — HEEP — was professing unbounded gratitude to, and unbounded friendship for, that much-abused gentleman.†   (source)
  • The skill of Mr., or, as he was now called, from the circumstance of having received the commission of a justice of the peace, Squire Doolittle, was again put in requisition; and the science of Mr. Jones was once more resorted to.†   (source)
  • Jos felt that the delay of yesterday had been only a respite, and that his dearly bought horses must of a surety be put into requisition.†   (source)
  • It was by no means his daughter's wish that the intellects of Highbury in general should be put under requisition.†   (source)
  • Meanwhile the procurator had exclaimed: "If the demon which possesses this goat, and which has resisted all exorcisms, persists in its deeds of witchcraft, if it alarms the court with them, we warn it that we shall be forced to put in requisition against it the gallows or the stake.†   (source)
  • All our china, silver and glass had been called into requisition, and was arranged upon the spotless damask cloth.†   (source)
  • He had no ear for music himself, and never went to church, as being of the medical profession, and likely to be in requisition for delicate cows.†   (source)
  • Adele and I had now to vacate the library: it would be in daily requisition as a reception-room for callers.†   (source)
  • A patrol which was returning to the Arsenal post having passed him, he made a requisition on it, and caused it to accompany him.†   (source)
  • He kept his small smooth hand in constant requisition, as if it were a witness to his gentility that had often done him good service before.†   (source)
  • In the midst of them, the hangman, ever busy and ever worse than useless, was in constant requisition; now, stringing up long rows of miscellaneous criminals; now, hanging a housebreaker on Saturday who had been taken on Tuesday; now, burning people in the hand at Newgate by the dozen, and now burning pamphlets at the door of Westminster Hall; to-day, taking the life of an atrocious murderer, and to-morrow of a wretched pilferer who had robbed a farmer's boy of sixpence.†   (source)
  • One bright summer's morning Silas had been more engrossed than usual in "setting up" a new piece of work, an occasion on which his scissors were in requisition.†   (source)
  • Anticipating the setting-in of the rains, I pressed forward all work connected with stores for the winter, and great was the in-gathering of roots, fruits, and grains, potatoes, rice, guavas, sweet acorns, pine-cones; load after load arrived at the cavern, and my wife's active needle was in constant requisition, as the demand for more sacks and bags was incessant.†   (source)
  • He told me that he and his companions had been chosen by the other sailors to come in deputation to me to make me a requisition which, in justice, I could not refuse.†   (source)
  • He had come in a simple way, had made a requisition on the neighboring post for a corporal and four soldiers, had left the soldiers in the courtyard, had had Fantine's room pointed out to him by the portress, who was utterly unsuspicious, accustomed as she was to seeing armed men inquiring for the mayor.†   (source)
  • That every little accomplishment she had acquired in happier days had been put into requisition for this purpose, and directed to this one end.†   (source)
  • Jos slept on until long after dark, when he woke up with a start at the motions of his servant, who was removing and emptying the decanters on the table; and the hackney-coach stand was again put into requisition for a carriage to convey this stout hero to his lodgings and bed.†   (source)
  • As he became more popular, household objects were brought into requisition for his instruction in a copious vocabulary; and whenever he appeared in the Yard ladies would fly out at their doors crying 'Mr Baptist—tea-pot!'†   (source)
  • But after a scene in which one person was in earnest and the other a perfect performer—after the tenderest caresses, the most pathetic tears, the smelling-bottle, and some of the very best feelings of the heart, had been called into requisition—Rebecca and Amelia parted, the former vowing to love her friend for ever and ever and ever.†   (source)
  • Before he had gone far, the driver stopped to let him know that he had given his name, number, and address to the two men, on their joint requisition; and also the address at which he had taken Mr Dorrit up, the hour at which he had been called from his stand and the way by which he had come.†   (source)
  • …of commercial pursuits bringing laws for all mankind from a British city—where two spare clerks, like dried dragoons, in green velvet caps adorned with golden tassels, stood, bearded, behind a small counter in a small room, containing no other visible objects than an empty iron-safe with the door open, a jug of water, and a papering of garland of roses; but who, on lawful requisition, by merely dipping their hands out of sight, could produce exhaustless mounds of five-franc pieces.†   (source)
  • …to be of such magnitude and of so many places, e.g., the 9th power of the 9th power of 9, that, the result having been obtained, 33 closely printed volumes of 1000 pages each of innumerable quires and reams of India paper would have to be requisitioned in order to contain the complete tale of its printed integers of units, tens, hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions, hundreds of millions, billions, the nucleus of the nebula of every…†   (source)
  • This, however, is an evil inseparable from the principle of quotas and requisitions.†   (source)
  • The latter has made requisitions which the former have had to provide for.†   (source)
  • The causes which have been specified produced at first only unequal and disproportionate degrees of compliance with the requisitions of the Union.†   (source)
  • Congress have an unlimited discretion to make requisitions of men and money; to govern the army and navy; to direct their operations.†   (source)
  • The second answer is, that the existence of such a power in the Constitution will have a strong influence in giving efficacy to requisitions.†   (source)
  • This inequality would of itself be sufficient in America to work the eventual destruction of the Union, if any mode of enforcing a compliance with its requisitions could be devised.†   (source)
  • The power of raising armies, by the most obvious construction of the articles of the Confederation, is merely a power of making requisitions upon the States for quotas of men.†   (source)
  • The system of quotas and requisitions, whether it be applied to men or money, is, in every view, a system of imbecility in the Union, and of inequality and injustice among the members.†   (source)
  • What remedy can there be for this situation, but in a change of the system which has produced it in a change of the fallacious and delusive system of quotas and requisitions?†   (source)
  • To say that deficiencies may be provided for by requisitions upon the States, is on the one hand to acknowledge that this system cannot be depended upon, and on the other hand to depend upon it for every thing beyond a certain limit.†   (source)
  • It seems to require no pains to prove that the States ought not to prefer a national Constitution which could only be kept in motion by the instrumentality of a large army continually on foot to execute the ordinary requisitions or decrees of the government.†   (source)
  • The truth is, that the existence of a federal government and military establishments under State authority are not less at variance with each other than a due supply of the federal treasury and the system of quotas and requisitions.†   (source)
  • The present Congress can make requisitions to any amount they please, and the States are constitutionally bound to furnish them; they can emit bills of credit as long as they will pay for the paper; they can borrow, both abroad and at home, as long as a shilling will be lent.†   (source)
  • Except as to the rule of appointment, the United States has an indefinite discretion to make requisitions for men and money; but they have no authority to raise either, by regulations extending to the individual citizens of America.†   (source)
  • …Germany is a history of wars between the emperor and the princes and states; of wars among the princes and states themselves; of the licentiousness of the strong, and the oppression of the weak; of foreign intrusions, and foreign intrigues; of requisitions of men and money disregarded, or partially complied with; of attempts to enforce them, altogether abortive, or attended with slaughter and desolation, involving the innocent with the guilty; of general inbecility, confusion, and…†   (source)
  • …the impartial and discerning, that there is an absolute necessity for an entire change in the first principles of the system; that if we are in earnest about giving the Union energy and duration, we must abandon the vain project of legislating upon the States in their collective capacities; we must extend the laws of the federal government to the individual citizens of America; we must discard the fallacious scheme of quotas and requisitions, as equally impracticable and unjust.†   (source)
  • It has been very properly observed by different speakers and writers on the side of the Constitution, that if the exercise of the power of internal taxation by the Union should be discovered on experiment to be really inconvenient, the federal government may then forbear the use of it, and have recourse to requisitions in its stead.†   (source)
  • There was a time when we were told that breaches, by the States, of the regulations of the federal authority were not to be expected; that a sense of common interest would preside over the conduct of the respective members, and would beget a full compliance with all the constitutional requisitions of the Union.†   (source)
  • Taught by experience that proper dependence could not be placed on the success of requisitions, unable by its own authority to lay hold of fresh resources, and urged by considerations of national danger, would it not be driven to the expedient of diverting the funds already appropriated from their proper objects to the defense of the State?†   (source)
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