Our Rulers and Our Rights: Or, Outlines of the United States Government; Its Origin, Branches, Departments, Institutions, Officers, and Modes of OperationN. Tibbals & Company, 1868 - 517 sider |
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... square miles of territory , in addition to our already immense possessions ; and will place by far the greater part of the Northwestern coast of North America under the control of the United States Govern- ment . For the purpose of ...
... square miles of territory , in addition to our already immense possessions ; and will place by far the greater part of the Northwestern coast of North America under the control of the United States Govern- ment . For the purpose of ...
Side 209
... square miles , or 1,921,288,320 acres . Before the establishment of the present Government , and during our colonial condition , much of this land had been sold and otherwise disposed of by the English Govern . ment , and had become the ...
... square miles , or 1,921,288,320 acres . Before the establishment of the present Government , and during our colonial condition , much of this land had been sold and otherwise disposed of by the English Govern . ment , and had become the ...
Side 210
... square miles to our public domain . To all these must be added the immense tracts bought of the Indians . And to all of which must be added the great purchase made early in the year 1867 , from Russia , of all her possessions in North ...
... square miles to our public domain . To all these must be added the immense tracts bought of the Indians . And to all of which must be added the great purchase made early in the year 1867 , from Russia , of all her possessions in North ...
Side 212
... square miles , each of which contains 640 acres , and is called a section . These sections are then sub - divided into halves , quar- ters , and eighths of sections ; that is , into lots of 320 , 160 and 80 acres . The boundary lines ...
... square miles , each of which contains 640 acres , and is called a section . These sections are then sub - divided into halves , quar- ters , and eighths of sections ; that is , into lots of 320 , 160 and 80 acres . The boundary lines ...
Side 322
... miles square , orig- inally cut out of the states of Maryland and Virginia and ceded to the United States as a site for the Capitol . Here the Capitol or house in which Congress meets is located , together with the Presidential mansion ...
... miles square , orig- inally cut out of the states of Maryland and Virginia and ceded to the United States as a site for the Capitol . Here the Capitol or house in which Congress meets is located , together with the Presidential mansion ...
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Our Rulers and Our Rights: Or, Outlines of the United States Government; Its ... Anson Willis Uten tilgangsbegrensning - 1869 |
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Side 410 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Side 417 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day. SECTION 5. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members...
Side 264 - Institution, to be composed of the Vice-President, the Chief Justice of the United States, and three members of the Senate and three members of the House of Representatives...
Side 12 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Side 427 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Side 415 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Side 90 - All claims founded upon the Constitution of the United States or any law of Congress, except for pensions, or upon any regulation of an Executive Department, or upon any contract, express or implied, with the Government of the United States...
Side 172 - Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary to the United States. And the said Plenipotentiaries, having exchanged their full powers, which were found to be in due form, have agreed upon and signed the following articles: Article I...
Side 435 - He shall take the Chair every day precisely at the hour to which the House shall have adjourned on the preceding day; shall immediately call the members to order; and, on the appearance of a quorum, shall cause the Journal of the preceding day to be read.
Side 292 - That there shall be at the seat of Government a Department of Labor, the general design and duties of which shall be to acquire and diffuse among the people of the United States useful information on subjects connected with labor, in the most general and comprehensive sense of that word...