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 Readers : with an Appendix Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionMarsh, Capen, Lyon, and Webb, 1840 - 372 Seiten |
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... Elections , and Meetings of Congress , Powers and Privileges of both Houses , 89 89 CHAPTER XIII . 90 CHAPTER XIV . Mode of Passing Laws , 96 CHAPTER XV . Powers of Congress . - Taxation , 101 CHAPTER XVI . Power to borrow Money and ...
... Elections , and Meetings of Congress , Powers and Privileges of both Houses , 89 89 CHAPTER XIII . 90 CHAPTER XIV . Mode of Passing Laws , 96 CHAPTER XV . Powers of Congress . - Taxation , 101 CHAPTER XVI . Power to borrow Money and ...
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... elections of Senators and Representatives being made , the first Congress under the Constitution as- sembled at New ... elected President , and John Adams was elected Vice President . On the 30th of April , President Washington was sworn ...
... elections of Senators and Representatives being made , the first Congress under the Constitution as- sembled at New ... elected President , and John Adams was elected Vice President . On the 30th of April , President Washington was sworn ...
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... elections , or proposed amendments , check any usurpation of authority , whether wanton , or uninten- tional , and thus relieve themselves from any grievances of a political nature . §43 . For a right understanding of the Constitution ...
... elections , or proposed amendments , check any usurpation of authority , whether wanton , or uninten- tional , and thus relieve themselves from any grievances of a political nature . §43 . For a right understanding of the Constitution ...
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... election , and is not hereditary . In mixed monarchies and aristocracies , some of the functionaries of the legislative and judicial powers are , or at least may be , hereditary . But in a representative republic , all power emanates ...
... election , and is not hereditary . In mixed monarchies and aristocracies , some of the functionaries of the legislative and judicial powers are , or at least may be , hereditary . But in a representative republic , all power emanates ...
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... elections . And , in the last place , it affords great securities to public liberty , by requiring the co - oper- ation of different bodies , which can scarcely ever , if prop- 5 XIII . erly organized , embrace the same sectional or ...
... elections . And , in the last place , it affords great securities to public liberty , by requiring the co - oper- ation of different bodies , which can scarcely ever , if prop- 5 XIII . erly organized , embrace the same sectional or ...
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Seite 334 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Seite 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.
Seite 283 - ... appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Seite 110 - Commerce, undoubtedly, is traffic, but it is something more, — it is intercourse. It describes the commercial intercourse between nations and parts of nations in all its branches, and is regulated by prescribing rules for carrying on that intercourse.
Seite 140 - And in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Seite 273 - But, from the necessity of the case, and a regard to the mutual interest of both countries, we cheerfully consent to the operation of such acts of the British parliament, as are bona fide, restrained to the regulation of our external commerce, for the purpose of securing the commercial advantages of the whole empire to the mother country, and the commercial benefits of its respective members ; excluding every idea of taxation internal or external, for raising a revenue on the subjects in America,...
Seite 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 war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the united states...
Seite 309 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your National Union, to your collective and individual happiness ; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable, attachment to it ; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity...
Seite 284 - Congress shall judge sufficient, or being present, shall refuse to strike, the Congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of Congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed, in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive...
Seite 336 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same, shall be common highways, and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of the said territory, as to the citizens of the United States, and those of any other states that may be admitted into the confederacy, without any tax, impost, or duty therefor.