The Constitutional Law of the United States, Volume 1Baker, Voorhis, 1910 The work as a whole is based upon lectures delivered during recent years to the graduate students in political science at the Johns Hopkins University. |
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... give a logical and complete exposition of the general principles of the constitutional law of the United States . The effort has been to ascertain and to discuss critically the broad principles upon which have been founded the decisions ...
... give a logical and complete exposition of the general principles of the constitutional law of the United States . The effort has been to ascertain and to discuss critically the broad principles upon which have been founded the decisions ...
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... give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States . 4 No person except a natural born citizen , or a citizen of the United States , at the time of the adoption of this Constitution , shall be eligible to the ...
... give their votes ; which day shall be the same throughout the United States . 4 No person except a natural born citizen , or a citizen of the United States , at the time of the adoption of this Constitution , shall be eligible to the ...
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... give to the Congress information of the state of the Union , and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and ex- pedient ; he may , on extraordinary occasions , convene both Houses , or either of them ...
... give to the Congress information of the state of the Union , and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and ex- pedient ; he may , on extraordinary occasions , convene both Houses , or either of them ...
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... give the legislature or executive this power to call for their opinions , have refused to give them when called upon to do so . Es- pecially in Minnesota ( 10 Minn . 78 , 1865 ) the court held unconstitutional an act which provided that ...
... give the legislature or executive this power to call for their opinions , have refused to give them when called upon to do so . Es- pecially in Minnesota ( 10 Minn . 78 , 1865 ) the court held unconstitutional an act which provided that ...
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... gives jurisdiction , the case must be dismissed for want of jursidiction in the court . And if it is dismissed on ... give jurisdiction , it is not only the right , but it is the judicial duty of the court to examine the whole case as ...
... gives jurisdiction , the case must be dismissed for want of jursidiction in the court . And if it is dismissed on ... give jurisdiction , it is not only the right , but it is the judicial duty of the court to examine the whole case as ...
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Page lxxxiv - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 87 - I therefore consider that in view of the Constitution and the laws the Union is unbroken, and to the extent of my ability I shall take care, as the Constitution itself expressly enjoins upon me, that the laws of the Union be faithfully executed in all the States.
Page 87 - It follows from these views that no State upon its own mere motion can lawfully get out of the Union ; that resolves and ordinances to that effect are legally void; and that acts of violence, within any State or States, against the authority of the United States, are insurrectionary or revolutionary, according to circumstances.
Page 554 - Though the law itself be fair on its face and impartial in appearance, yet, if it is applied and administered by public authority with an evil eye and an unequal hand, so as practically to make unjust and illegal discriminations between persons in similar circumstances, material to their rights, the denial of equal justice is still within the prohibition of the Constitution.
Page 109 - ... that the taxation shall not be at a greater rate than is assessed upon other moneyed capital in the hands of individual citizens of such state...
Page 551 - If two or more persons conspire to injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate any citizen in the free exercise or enjoyment of any right or privilege secured to him by the Constitution or laws of the United States...
Page 3 - Certainly all those who have framed written Constitutions contemplate them as forming the fundamental and paramount law of the nation, and consequently the theory of every such government must be that an act of the Legislature repugnant to the Constitution is void...