Layman's Guide to Individual Rights Under the United States ConstitutionU.S. Government Printing Office, 1972 - 32 pages |
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... otherwise are not absolute rights in the sense that they entitle a citizen to act in any way he pleases . Rather , he must exercise his rights in such a way that the rights of others are not denied in order to gain the protections of ...
... otherwise are not absolute rights in the sense that they entitle a citizen to act in any way he pleases . Rather , he must exercise his rights in such a way that the rights of others are not denied in order to gain the protections of ...
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... otherwise valid government enactments . For example , one may not have two wives and escape conviction for bigamy by attributing his conduct to his religious beliefs . Nor could a person commit an indecent act or engage in immoral ...
... otherwise valid government enactments . For example , one may not have two wives and escape conviction for bigamy by attributing his conduct to his religious beliefs . Nor could a person commit an indecent act or engage in immoral ...
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... otherwise infamous crime , unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury , except in cases arising in the land or naval forces , or in the Militia , when in actual service in time of War or public danger ; nor shall any person ...
... otherwise infamous crime , unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury , except in cases arising in the land or naval forces , or in the Militia , when in actual service in time of War or public danger ; nor shall any person ...
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... otherwise re - examined in any Court of the United States , then according to the rules of the common law . Civil Trials : The Seventh Amendment applies only to Federal civil trials and not to civil suits in State courts . Except as ...
... otherwise re - examined in any Court of the United States , then according to the rules of the common law . Civil Trials : The Seventh Amendment applies only to Federal civil trials and not to civil suits in State courts . Except as ...
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... otherwise invalidate under the " equal pro- tection " clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . CONCLUSION In addition to the specific constitutional rights outlined herein , certain safeguards for the individual are inherent in the ...
... otherwise invalidate under the " equal pro- tection " clause of the Fourteenth Amendment . CONCLUSION In addition to the specific constitutional rights outlined herein , certain safeguards for the individual are inherent in the ...
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Page 31 - Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 22 - Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 26 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 32 - President more than once. But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by the Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term.
Page 30 - XVIII [SECTION 1. After one year from the ratification of this article the manufacture, sale, or transportation of intoxicating liquors within, the importation thereof into, or the exportation thereof from the United States and all territory subject to the jurisdiction thereof for beverage purposes is hereby prohibited. SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.
Page 32 - President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office...
Page 23 - ... 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 31 - The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3rd day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Page 25 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them.
Page 25 - The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury ; and such Trial shall be held in the State where the said Crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the Trial shall be at such Place or Places as the Congress may by Law have directed.