American Government and PoliticsMacmillan Company, 1914 - 788 pages |
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... house , and the freedom of each house to determine its procedure under certain limitations , were taken almost verbatim from state constitu- tions . The powers which the Convention of 1787 vested in 1 Compare , for instance , the ...
... house , and the freedom of each house to determine its procedure under certain limitations , were taken almost verbatim from state constitu- tions . The powers which the Convention of 1787 vested in 1 Compare , for instance , the ...
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... house , or council , was chosen by the king acting through the royal governor , who usually determined the selection ... house on it ; or twenty - five acres with a house twelve feet 1 Reference : A. E. McKinley , The Suffrage Franchise ...
... house , or council , was chosen by the king acting through the royal governor , who usually determined the selection ... house on it ; or twenty - five acres with a house twelve feet 1 Reference : A. E. McKinley , The Suffrage Franchise ...
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... house , just as was done by ships from London or Hamburg ; and not a cartload of Connecticut firewood could be delivered at the back door of a country house in Beekman Street until it should have paid a heavy duty .... The New Jersey ...
... house , just as was done by ships from London or Hamburg ; and not a cartload of Connecticut firewood could be delivered at the back door of a country house in Beekman Street until it should have paid a heavy duty .... The New Jersey ...
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... House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President ; and if no person have a majority , then , from the five highest on the list , the said House shall in like manner choose the President , " the ...
... House of Representatives shall immediately choose by ballot one of them for President ; and if no person have a majority , then , from the five highest on the list , the said House shall in like manner choose the President , " the ...
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... House of Representatives in February , 1802. The arguments advanced in favor of it were simple and direct : the suffrages given for the election of the agents of gov- ernment ought to be an expression of public will ; any provision ...
... House of Representatives in February , 1802. The arguments advanced in favor of it were simple and direct : the suffrages given for the election of the agents of gov- ernment ought to be an expression of public will ; any provision ...
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Page 753 - ... Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. [2] No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. [3] Representatives and direct Taxes...
Page 760 - Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the 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...
Page 722 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 760 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 339 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 760 - 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.
Page 313 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 765 - ... vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies: Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointments until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Page 49 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 759 - 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.