Outlines of the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States: Designed as a Text Book for Lectures, as a Class Book for Academies and Common Schools, and as a Manual for Popular UseCollins and Hannay, 1833 - 249 من الصفحات |
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... equal , and where the obscurest individual is eligible to the high- est and most responsible stations in the go- vernment . It may therefore well be regard- ed as a defect in the prevailing systems of education , that this study should ...
... equal , and where the obscurest individual is eligible to the high- est and most responsible stations in the go- vernment . It may therefore well be regard- ed as a defect in the prevailing systems of education , that this study should ...
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... equal representative of the People , as the direct source of its authority , and the sole ultimate depositary of the sovereign power . 10. The powers of Government , are distinguished from each other , as appertaining to the Legislative ...
... equal representative of the People , as the direct source of its authority , and the sole ultimate depositary of the sovereign power . 10. The powers of Government , are distinguished from each other , as appertaining to the Legislative ...
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... equal , whether the same powers were delegated to a single magistrate , or to a numerous body . 13. If the principle of representation be extended only to a part of the Government , and other parts exist in it independent of that ...
... equal , whether the same powers were delegated to a single magistrate , or to a numerous body . 13. If the principle of representation be extended only to a part of the Government , and other parts exist in it independent of that ...
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... Government ; and that amongst indepen- dent sovereigns , bound together by a simple league , the parties , however unequal in respect to territory D and population , should each have an equal voi e CHAP . I. 37 CONGRESS .
... Government ; and that amongst indepen- dent sovereigns , bound together by a simple league , the parties , however unequal in respect to territory D and population , should each have an equal voi e CHAP . I. 37 CONGRESS .
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... equal voi e in the public councils . 63. It was therefore proper , that in a Republic , partaking both of the national and federal characters , the Government should be founded on a combination of the principles of proprional , and equal ...
... equal voi e in the public councils . 63. It was therefore proper , that in a Republic , partaking both of the national and federal characters , the Government should be founded on a combination of the principles of proprional , and equal ...
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الصفحة 161 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government.
الصفحة xxii - The fourth section of the fourth article of the constitution of the United States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every State in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion ; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
الصفحة 143 - The power of Congress, then, comprehends navigation, within the limits of every State in the Union ; so far as that navigation may be, in any manner, connected with "commerce with foreign nations, or among the several States, or with the Indian tribes.
الصفحة 106 - L. 78) declares, that the Circuit Courts of the United States shall have original cognizance, concurrent with the courts of the several States, of all suits of a civil nature at common law or in equity...
الصفحة 170 - And the said records and judicial proceedings, authenticated as aforesaid, shall have such faith and credit given to them in every court within the United States as they have by law or usage in the courts of the State from whence the said records are or shall be taken.
الصفحة 227 - 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 any office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
الصفحة 137 - Our constitution declares a treaty to be the law of the land. It is, consequently, to be regarded in courts of justice as equivalent to an act of the legislature, whenever it operates of itself without the aid of any legislative provision.
الصفحة 109 - That the district courts shall take cognizance of complaints, by whomsoever instituted, in cases of captures made within the waters of the United States, or within a marine league of the coasts or shores thereof.
الصفحة 193 - Bills of attainder, ex post facto laws, and laws impairing the obligation of contracts are contrary to the first principles of the social compact, and to every principle of sound legislation. The two former are expressly prohibited by the declarations prefixed to some of the state constitutions, and all of them are prohibited by the spirit and scope of these fundamental charters. Our own experience has taught us nevertheless, that additional...
الصفحة 221 - WE, the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, ensure domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defence, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.