The Georgia Historical Quarterly, Volume 3Georgia Historical Society., 1919 |
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Page 100 - I have neither sought nor accepted nor attempted to exercise the functions of any office whatever, under any authority or pretended authority in hostility to the United States; that I have not yielded a voluntary support to any pretended government, authority, power or constitution within the United States, hostile or inimical thereto.
Page 122 - I, AB, do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have never voluntarily borne arms against the United States since I have been a citizen thereof; that I have voluntarily given no aid, countenance, counsel, or encouragement to persons engaged in armed hostility thereto...
Page 109 - But where some collateral matter arises out of the general words, and happens to be unreasonable; there the judges are in decency to conclude that this consequence was not foreseen by the parliament, and therefore they are at liberty to expound the statute by equity, and only quoad hoc disregard it.
Page 102 - That in all the courts of the United States, the parties may plead and manage their own causes personally or by the assistance of such counsel or attorneys at law as by the rules of the said courts respectively shall be permitted to manage and conduct causes therein.
Page 99 - An Act to prescribe an Oath of Office, and for other Purposes. Be it enacted . . . , That hereafter every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the government of the United States...
Page 99 - That hereafter every person elected or appointed to any office of honor or profit under the Government of the United States, either in the civil, military, or naval departments of the public service, excepting the President of the United States...
Page 121 - An ex post facto law is one which renders an act punishable in a manner in which it was not punishable when it was committed.
Page 166 - He originated the plan of the University of Georgia, drew up the charter, and persuaded the Assembly to adopt it, and was for some time its President.
Page 180 - ... shall have power from time to time and at all times hereafter, to authorize and appoint such persons as they shall think fit, to take subscriptions, and to gather and collect such moneys as shall be by any person or persons contributed for the purposes aforesaid...
Page 121 - Any possible question whether by the marriage of the mother she became duly naturalized is set at rest by the decision of the United States circuit court in the case of the United States v. Kellar (13 Fed. Rep., 84), in which the court held that the mother, an alien, by her marriage to a naturalized citizen of the United States became "duly naturalized.