A Catechism of the Constitution of the United States of America: With Sketches of the Constitutional and Ratifying Conventions, and Valuable Personal, Historical, Political and Legal Information, Criticism and InterpretationThe Author, 1892 - 190 sider |
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Side 67
... electors , Senators , and Representatives . The United States can erect no polling places within the States . Each House of Congress has only au- thority to " judge of the elections , returns , and qualifications of its own members ...
... electors , Senators , and Representatives . The United States can erect no polling places within the States . Each House of Congress has only au- thority to " judge of the elections , returns , and qualifications of its own members ...
Side 74
... electors ? They are elective State officers . In a body called usually the Electoral College they are the States in special council . The theory of the framers of the Constitution was that the electors should be intermediaries between ...
... electors ? They are elective State officers . In a body called usually the Electoral College they are the States in special council . The theory of the framers of the Constitution was that the electors should be intermediaries between ...
Side 75
... electors , who shall tally with the number of Representatives in Congress , shall be appointed by congressional districts , and that the States shall be divided into two districts for the appointment of electors - at- large , who tally ...
... electors , who shall tally with the number of Representatives in Congress , shall be appointed by congressional districts , and that the States shall be divided into two districts for the appointment of electors - at- large , who tally ...
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... electors , and by the act of 1802 the State was divided into nine districts , seven of them choosing one elector each , and two of them two electors each . Still more curious was the election of 1832 , in which , by an act of the ...
... electors , and by the act of 1802 the State was divided into nine districts , seven of them choosing one elector each , and two of them two electors each . Still more curious was the election of 1832 , in which , by an act of the ...
Side 126
... electors and notify the President- elect . Colonel Lee had left Henry and Mason dissatisfied , but he carried with him amendments to the Constitution with which to neutralize con- solidation . While Congress was in a dilemma , which ...
... electors and notify the President- elect . Colonel Lee had left Henry and Mason dissatisfied , but he carried with him amendments to the Constitution with which to neutralize con- solidation . While Congress was in a dilemma , which ...
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Side 177 - ... for executing its inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
Side 179 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Side 181 - ... 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 173 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Side 176 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Side 179 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Side 181 - 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 187 - ... from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Side 178 - ... 4. The congress may determine the time of choosing the electors, and the day on which they shall give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Side 176 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of the Congress, become the seat of government of the United States...