Manual of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Instruction of American Youth in the Duties, Obligations, and Rights of CitizenshipVan Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1874 - 370 Seiten |
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... respective numbers , which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons , including those bound to service for a term of years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three - fifths of all other persons . The actual ...
... respective numbers , which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons , including those bound to service for a term of years , and excluding Indians not taxed , three - fifths of all other persons . The actual ...
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... respective numbers , " that is , as the whole population , but that only three - fifths of the slaves should be counted . According to the Articles of Confederation , the votes were by States - each State , whether large or small ...
... respective numbers , " that is , as the whole population , but that only three - fifths of the slaves should be counted . According to the Articles of Confederation , the votes were by States - each State , whether large or small ...
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... respective States by that number , and taking the sum of the quotients . The former method would give the largest number of Representa- tives , and was adopted by Congress in the bill first passed . But the bill was returned by ...
... respective States by that number , and taking the sum of the quotients . The former method would give the largest number of Representa- tives , and was adopted by Congress in the bill first passed . But the bill was returned by ...
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... respective Houses , and in going to and returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either House , they shall not be questioned in any other place . Under the Articles of Confederation , each State paid its own members of ...
... respective Houses , and in going to and returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either House , they shall not be questioned in any other place . Under the Articles of Confederation , each State paid its own members of ...
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... respectively . The change made in 1816 , from six dollars a day to fifteen hundred dollars a year , was received by ... respective sessions . From 1789 to the present time , then , the compensa- tion has been as follows : 1789 to 1815 ...
... respectively . The change made in 1816 , from six dollars a day to fifteen hundred dollars a year , was received by ... respective sessions . From 1789 to the present time , then , the compensa- tion has been as follows : 1789 to 1815 ...
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Seite xvi - ... 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 xix - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed In any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Seite 41 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Seite xi - ... the United States, in Congress assembled. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace...
Seite xii - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Seite xxv - 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...
Seite xx - ... 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen.
Seite xi - 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...
Seite xi - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Seite xxi - 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.