The Proposed Amendments to the Constitution of the United States During the First Century of Its HistoryU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - 442 pages |
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... four distinct periods : The first period embracing the years 1789-1803 , and aiming at the perfection of details ; the second period , includ- ing the years 1803–1860 , and covering general alterations ; the third period , comprising ...
... four distinct periods : The first period embracing the years 1789-1803 , and aiming at the perfection of details ; the second period , includ- ing the years 1803–1860 , and covering general alterations ; the third period , comprising ...
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... four different times , between the years 1813 and 1822 , an amend- ment proposing that the electors should be chosen by districts was passed by one House of Congress . During this period forty - four amendments of a somewhat similar ...
... four different times , between the years 1813 and 1822 , an amend- ment proposing that the electors should be chosen by districts was passed by one House of Congress . During this period forty - four amendments of a somewhat similar ...
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... four hundred amendments proposed during these fifty - eight years became a part of the Constitution . Six passed the Senate ; in addition , one only received the sanction of both branches of Congress . " 5. THE THIRD PERIOD : 1860-1870 ...
... four hundred amendments proposed during these fifty - eight years became a part of the Constitution . Six passed the Senate ; in addition , one only received the sanction of both branches of Congress . " 5. THE THIRD PERIOD : 1860-1870 ...
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... four amendments passed one House , but not the other . " 5. THE FOURTH PERIOD , 1870-1889 . The last of the reconstruction amendments was ratified in 1870. The last twenty years of the first century of the life of the Constitution form ...
... four amendments passed one House , but not the other . " 5. THE FOURTH PERIOD , 1870-1889 . The last of the reconstruction amendments was ratified in 1870. The last twenty years of the first century of the life of the Constitution form ...
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... four hundred propositions have been intro- duced during this time ; 1 two classes command attention , the one and the larger involving changes in the form of government , the other in its powers . Under the former the choice , term ...
... four hundred propositions have been intro- duced during this time ; 1 two classes command attention , the one and the larger involving changes in the form of government , the other in its powers . Under the former the choice , term ...
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Page 187 - If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept or retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
Page 218 - The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to secure to the citizens of each State all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and to all persons in the several States equal protection in the rights of life, liberty, and property.
Page 158 - States, between a State and citizens of another State, between citizens of different States, between citizens of the same State, claiming land under grants of different states, and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign states, citizens, or subjects.
Page 244 - ... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the limitations and reservations in the charter or in the laws or constitutions which govern it.
Page 211 - All slaves who shall have enjoyed actual freedom by the chances of the war, at any time before the end of the rebellion, shall be forever free; but all owners of such, who shall not have been disloyal, shall be compensated for them...
Page 179 - Florida also, whensoever it may be rightfully obtained, shall become a part of the United States, its white inhabitants shall thereupon be citizens, and shall stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
Page 138 - That no man, or set of men, are entitled to exclusive or separate emoluments or privileges from the community, but in consideration of public services; which, not being descendible, neither ought the offices of magistrate, legislator or judge to be hereditary.
Page 52 - Indians not taxed ; provided, that whenever the elective franchise shall be denied or abridged in any State on account of race or color, all persons of such race or color shall be excluded from the basis of representation.
Page 82 - States, directed to the president of the senate. The president of the senate shall, in the presence of the senate and house of representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the greatest number of votes for president shall be president, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed...
Page 258 - Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers.