American Government and PoliticsMacmillan Company, 1914 - 788 pages |
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... cent of the population , but this was partially due to the fact that many duly qualified voters were ordinarily inactive , for on one occasion at least six and one - half per cent of the inhabitants took part in an election . In the ...
... cent of the population , but this was partially due to the fact that many duly qualified voters were ordinarily inactive , for on one occasion at least six and one - half per cent of the inhabitants took part in an election . In the ...
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... cent of actual voters among the population , where perhaps sixteen per cent were qualified electors ; and New York City and Virginia showing the far larger proportion of eight per cent of the population as actual voters . At best the ...
... cent of actual voters among the population , where perhaps sixteen per cent were qualified electors ; and New York City and Virginia showing the far larger proportion of eight per cent of the population as actual voters . At best the ...
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... cents in specie . It took eleven dollars of this money to buy a pound of brown sugar in Virginia ; seventy - five dollars for a yard of linen ; and one hundred dollars for a pound of tea . Jefferson records that he paid his physician ...
... cents in specie . It took eleven dollars of this money to buy a pound of brown sugar in Virginia ; seventy - five dollars for a yard of linen ; and one hundred dollars for a pound of tea . Jefferson records that he paid his physician ...
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... cent on certain goods . This moderate proposition was defeated because Rhode Island rejected it on the grounds that " she regarded it the most precious jewel of sovereignty that no state shall be called upon to open its purse but by the ...
... cent on certain goods . This moderate proposition was defeated because Rhode Island rejected it on the grounds that " she regarded it the most precious jewel of sovereignty that no state shall be called upon to open its purse but by the ...
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... cent commentators . Professor Burgess makes an exceptionally powerful argument against the federal amending system : " When I reflect that , while our natural conditions and relations have been requiring a gradual strengthening and ...
... cent commentators . Professor Burgess makes an exceptionally powerful argument against the federal amending system : " When I reflect that , while our natural conditions and relations have been requiring a gradual strengthening and ...
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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.