Constitutional Legislation in the United States: Its Origin, and Application to the Relative Powers of Congress, and of State LegislaturesT. & J.W. Johnson, 1891 - 696 sider |
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... given by Baylies , in his Memoir of Plymouth Colony , of an inhabitant of Newport , in Rhode Island , who was tried for a capital offense before a Town Meeting , convicted , sentenced , and executed in pursuance of the judgment there ...
... given by Baylies , in his Memoir of Plymouth Colony , of an inhabitant of Newport , in Rhode Island , who was tried for a capital offense before a Town Meeting , convicted , sentenced , and executed in pursuance of the judgment there ...
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... given election are ignorant , incompetent and little calculated to judge correctly of the effects of a line of policy to be inaugurated by their political action . Doubtless , there will also be found ignorant and incompetent voters ...
... given election are ignorant , incompetent and little calculated to judge correctly of the effects of a line of policy to be inaugurated by their political action . Doubtless , there will also be found ignorant and incompetent voters ...
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... given to the language which expresses them . In fact , one of the elementary diffi- culties which constantly confronts the student in tracing the philosophy of government is that springing from the variety of definitions attaching ...
... given to the language which expresses them . In fact , one of the elementary diffi- culties which constantly confronts the student in tracing the philosophy of government is that springing from the variety of definitions attaching ...
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... given place at any particular time , and enacting laws without regard either to vested rights or constitu- tional limitations . This would constitute not a republic , but a direct democracy . On the basis of a merely personal equality ...
... given place at any particular time , and enacting laws without regard either to vested rights or constitu- tional limitations . This would constitute not a republic , but a direct democracy . On the basis of a merely personal equality ...
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... given to the petitions of individual colonies . Still no disavowal of allegiance to the British Crown was yet made , nor any idea of separation from its authority entertained . They all looked for redress through the action of ...
... given to the petitions of individual colonies . Still no disavowal of allegiance to the British Crown was yet made , nor any idea of separation from its authority entertained . They all looked for redress through the action of ...
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Side 646 - 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...
Side 646 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Side 646 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Side 653 - 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 639 - 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.
Side 303 - Not only may a man be a citizen of the United States without being a citizen of a State, but an important element is necessary to convert the former into the latter. He must reside within the State to make him a citizen of it, but it is only necessary that he should be born or naturalized in the United States to be a citizen of the Union.
Side 644 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...
Side 538 - A constitution, to contain an accurate detail of all the subdivisions of which its great powers will admit, and of all the means by which they may be carried into execution, would partake of the prolixity of a legal code, and could scarcely be embraced by the human mind.
Side 339 - Protection by the government; the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right to acquire and possess property of every kind, and to pursue and obtain happiness and safety; subject nevertheless to such restraints as the government may justly prescribe for the general good of the whole.
Side 652 - The Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...