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 ConstitutionHarper & Brothers, 1842 - 372 من الصفحات |
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... body , some by the popular representative branch thereof , and some by conventions of the people , according to the several means and local circumstances of each Colony . This first great Continental Congress assembled on the 4th of ...
... body , some by the popular representative branch thereof , and some by conventions of the people , according to the several means and local circumstances of each Colony . This first great Continental Congress assembled on the 4th of ...
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... body of troops , to protect itself against the encroachments of the neighboring States of Pennsylvania and New York ? The same military force , which would hardly be felt in either of the latter States , would press heavily upon the ...
... body of troops , to protect itself against the encroachments of the neighboring States of Pennsylvania and New York ? The same military force , which would hardly be felt in either of the latter States , would press heavily upon the ...
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... body of men , the government is in fact a despotism , by whatever name it may be called , whether a monarchy , or an aristocracy , or a democracy . When , therefore , the Convention , which framed the Con- stitution , determined on a ...
... body of men , the government is in fact a despotism , by whatever name it may be called , whether a monarchy , or an aristocracy , or a democracy . When , therefore , the Convention , which framed the Con- stitution , determined on a ...
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... body , was deemed a prominent defect . The Constitution , on the other hand , adopts , as a fundamental rule , the exercise of the legislative power by two distinct and independent branches . The advantages of this division are , in the ...
... body , was deemed a prominent defect . The Constitution , on the other hand , adopts , as a fundamental rule , the exercise of the legislative power by two distinct and independent branches . The advantages of this division are , in the ...
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... body . The value of such a separate organization will , of course , be greatly enhanced , the more the ele- ments , of which each body is composed , differ from each other , in the mode of choice , in the qualifications , and in the ...
... body . The value of such a separate organization will , of course , be greatly enhanced , the more the ele- ments , of which each body is composed , differ from each other , in the mode of choice , in the qualifications , and in the ...
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الصفحة 202 - ... 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...
الصفحة 180 - ... 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.
الصفحة 176 - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
الصفحة 74 - 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.
الصفحة 89 - 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.
الصفحة 166 - ... 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...
الصفحة 187 - ... 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...
الصفحة 167 - 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...
الصفحة 203 - The legislatures of those districts, or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States ; and in no case shall non-resident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.
الصفحة 172 - 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.