A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General ReadersHarper & Brothers, 1865 - 372 sider |
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... liberty to extirpate , they were entitled to deem mere temporary occupants of the soil . They might convert them to Christianity ; and , if they refus- ed conversion , they might drive them from the soil , as unworthy to inhabit it ...
... liberty to extirpate , they were entitled to deem mere temporary occupants of the soil . They might convert them to Christianity ; and , if they refus- ed conversion , they might drive them from the soil , as unworthy to inhabit it ...
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... liberty , and property ; and they have never ceded to any sovereign power , whatever , a right to dispose of either without their consent . ( 2. ) That our ancestors , who first settled the Colonies , were , at the time of their ...
... liberty , and property ; and they have never ceded to any sovereign power , whatever , a right to dispose of either without their consent . ( 2. ) That our ancestors , who first settled the Colonies , were , at the time of their ...
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... liberty , even than that , by which we were separated from the parent country . It was not achieved , however , without great difficulties and sacrifices of opinion . It required all the wisdom , the patriotism , and the genius of our ...
... liberty , even than that , by which we were separated from the parent country . It was not achieved , however , without great difficulties and sacrifices of opinion . It required all the wisdom , the patriotism , and the genius of our ...
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... liberty , and to trace their deep sense of the value of political responsibility , and their anxiety , above all things , to give perpetuity , as well as energy , to the republican institutions of their country ; then , indeed , will ...
... liberty , and to trace their deep sense of the value of political responsibility , and their anxiety , above all things , to give perpetuity , as well as energy , to the republican institutions of their country ; then , indeed , will ...
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... liberty to ourselves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America . " § 45. This Preamble is very important , not only as explanatory of the motives and objects of framing the ...
... liberty to ourselves and our posterity , do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America . " § 45. This Preamble is very important , not only as explanatory of the motives and objects of framing the ...
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Side 300 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place, or places, as the Congress may by law have directed.
Side 282 - When land forces are raised by any state for the common defence, all officers of or under the rank of colonel shall be appointed by the legislature of each state respectively, by whom such forces shall be raised, or in such manner as such state shall direct ; and all vacancies shall be filled up by the state which first made the appointment.
Side 316 - If in the opinion of the people the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way which the Constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation; for though this in one instance may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed.
Side 309 - ... it is of infinite moment, that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national Union, to your collective and individual happiness...
Side 294 - States; 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes; 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States; 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States; 7.
Side 287 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Side 281 - No State shall lay any imposts or duties which may interfere with any stipulations in treaties entered into by the United States in Congress assembled, with any king, prince or State, in pursuance of any treaties already proposed by Congress to the courts of France and Spain.
Side 282 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which...
Side 300 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason, unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Side 281 - Freedom of speech and debate in Congress shall not be impeached or questioned in any court, or place out of Congress...