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... shall be for a longer term than two years : 13. To provide and maintain a ... have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of this Confederacy . 3 ... President or some one of the heads of the Departments ...
... shall be for a longer term than two years : 13. To provide and maintain a ... have power to prohibit the introduction of slaves from any State not a member of this Confederacy . 3 ... President or some one of the heads of the Departments ...
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Texas. office who shall not have attained the age of thirty - five years and been four- teen years a resident of one of the States of this Confederacy . 4. In case of the removal of the President ... ARTICLE III . SECTION 1 . 1. The judicial ...
Texas. office who shall not have attained the age of thirty - five years and been four- teen years a resident of one of the States of this Confederacy . 4. In case of the removal of the President ... ARTICLE III . SECTION 1 . 1. The judicial ...
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... Power its members for disorderly behavior , and , with the concurrence of punish and expel . two - thirds of the whole number , expel a member . 3. Each House shall ... have been created , or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased , ...
... Power its members for disorderly behavior , and , with the concurrence of punish and expel . two - thirds of the whole number , expel a member . 3. Each House shall ... have been created , or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased , ...
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... shall be , for the erection of forts , maga- zines , arsenals , dockyards ... have power to prohibit the introduction of With States slaves from any State not a member of , or Territory not belonging of Confed❜y . to , this Confederacy . 3 ...
... shall be , for the erection of forts , maga- zines , arsenals , dockyards ... have power to prohibit the introduction of With States slaves from any State not a member of , or Territory not belonging of Confed❜y . to , this Confederacy . 3 ...
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... Departments , upon any subject relating to the du- ties of their respective ... Heads of Departments . 3. The principal officer in each of the Executive Departments , and all persons connected ... President shall have the power to fill all 60.
... Departments , upon any subject relating to the du- ties of their respective ... Heads of Departments . 3. The principal officer in each of the Executive Departments , and all persons connected ... President shall have the power to fill all 60.
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Page 49 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the 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.
Page 54 - The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the Legislature thereof, for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote. 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes.
Page 35 - ... with the objections, to the other house, by which it shall likewise be reconsidered, and if approved by twothirds of the members present it shall become a law. But in all such cases the votes of both houses shall be determined by yeas and nays...
Page 60 - President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the limits of the Confederate States, as they may exist at the time of his election.
Page 62 - No slave or other person held to service or labor in any State or Territory of the Confederate States...
Page 46 - 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...
Page 39 - The legislature may, at any time after the approval of such law by the people, if no debt shall have been contracted in pursuance thereof, repeal the same ; and may at any time, by law, forbid the contracting of any further debt or liability under such law ; but the tax imposed by such...
Page 55 - 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 56 - To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; but neither this, nor any other clause contained in the Constitution, shall ever be construed to delegate the power to Congress to appropriate money for any internal improvement intended to facilitate commerce; except for the purpose of furnishing lights, beacons, and buoys, and...
Page 38 - All property, both real and personal, of the wife, owned or claimed by her before marriage, and that acquired afterwards by gift, devise, or descent, shall be her separate property; and laws shall be passed more clearly defining the rights of the wife, in relation as well to her separate property, as to that held in common with her husband. Laws shall also be passed providing for the registration of the wife's separate property.