The State Register: Comprising an Historical and Statistical Account of Louisiana, from Its Earliest Settlement as a Territory Down to Its Present Period as a StateT.B.R. Hatch & Company, 1854 - 164 pages |
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... removal from office , and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor , trust or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted shall , nevertheless , be liable and subject to indict- ment , trial , judgment and ...
... removal from office , and disqualification to hold and enjoy any office of honor , trust or profit under the United States ; but the party convicted shall , nevertheless , be liable and subject to indict- ment , trial , judgment and ...
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... removal of the President from office , or of his death , resignation , or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office , the same shall devolve on the Vice - President ; and the Congress may by law provide for the ...
... removal of the President from office , or of his death , resignation , or inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office , the same shall devolve on the Vice - President ; and the Congress may by law provide for the ...
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... 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 diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected ...
... 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 diminished during the period for which he shall have been elected ...
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... removed to the State having jurisdic- tion of the crime . 3. No person held to service or labor in one State , under the laws thereof , escaping into another , shall , in consequence of any law or regulation therein , be discharged from ...
... removed to the State having jurisdic- tion of the crime . 3. No person held to service or labor in one State , under the laws thereof , escaping into another , shall , in consequence of any law or regulation therein , be discharged from ...
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... removal from office , death , refusal to qualify , resignation , or absence from the State , the President of the Senate shall exercise all the power and authority appertaining to the office of Governor , until another be duly qualified ...
... removal from office , death , refusal to qualify , resignation , or absence from the State , the President of the Senate shall exercise all the power and authority appertaining to the office of Governor , until another be duly qualified ...
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Page 7 - 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.
Page 8 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 9 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 18 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the Federal Constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages, and immunities, of citizens of the United States ; and, in the mean time, they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property, and the religion which they profess.
Page 13 - All debts contracted, and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this Constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution, as under the confederation. 2. -This Constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof; and all treaties made, or which shall be...
Page 10 - 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...
Page 33 - Laws shall be made to exclude from office, serving on juries, and from the right of suffrage, those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon from power, bribery, tumult,, or other improper practice.
Page 14 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 6 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof: but the congress may at any time by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.
Page 65 - In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or his removal from office, death, inability to discharge the powers and duties of the said office, resignation, or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term, or until the disability shall cease.