American Government and PoliticsMacmillan, 1910 - 772 pages |
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... commonwealth until 1818 ; and the charter of the neighboring state of Rhode Island , granted in 1663 , remained in force as the fundamental law until 1842. The distribution of representation , the suffrage , the qualifications for ...
... commonwealth until 1818 ; and the charter of the neighboring state of Rhode Island , granted in 1663 , remained in force as the fundamental law until 1842. The distribution of representation , the suffrage , the qualifications for ...
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... Commonwealth , Vol . I , taken from John- ston's article in the New Princeton Review , September , 1887 . 1 See an illuminating article on this point by Professor Max Farrand , in the American Political Science Review for November ...
... Commonwealth , Vol . I , taken from John- ston's article in the New Princeton Review , September , 1887 . 1 See an illuminating article on this point by Professor Max Farrand , in the American Political Science Review for November ...
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... commonwealth . In Connecticut and Rhode Island , where there were no royal governors to dissolve the assemblies , and in the proprietary colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware , where such authority was not exercised by the governor ...
... commonwealth . In Connecticut and Rhode Island , where there were no royal governors to dissolve the assemblies , and in the proprietary colonies of Pennsylvania and Delaware , where such authority was not exercised by the governor ...
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... commonwealth , and that when nine conventions should have approved , Congress should take steps to put the new government into operation and abdicate . Of course the mass of the people were not at all able to analyze the real character ...
... commonwealth , and that when nine conventions should have approved , Congress should take steps to put the new government into operation and abdicate . Of course the mass of the people were not at all able to analyze the real character ...
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... commonwealth to deprive any citizen of the right to vote on account of race , color , or previous condition of ser- vitude . Some of the northern states still denied the franchise to 1 See Readings , p . 393 , for the Amendment . 2 ...
... commonwealth to deprive any citizen of the right to vote on account of race , color , or previous condition of ser- vitude . Some of the northern states still denied the franchise to 1 See Readings , p . 393 , for the Amendment . 2 ...
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Page 700 - A landed interest, a manufacturing interest, a mercantile interest, a moneyed interest, with many lesser interests, grow up of necessity in civilized nations, and divide them into different classes actuated by different sentiments and views.
Page 321 - International law is part of our law, and must be ascertained and administered by the courts of justice of appropriate jurisdiction, as often as questions of right depending upon it are duly presented for their determination.
Page 159 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Page 295 - ... the candid citizen must confess that if the policy of the Government, upon vital questions affecting the whole people, is to be irrevocably fixed by decisions of the Supreme Court, the instant they are made in ordinary litigation between parties in personal actions, the people will have ceased to be their own rulers, having to that extent practically resigned their government into the hands of that eminent tribunal.
Page 313 - It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world...
Page 704 - ... multiplied by the number of his shares of stock shall equal, or to distribute them on the same principle among as many candidates as he shall think fit; and such directors or managers shall not be elected in any other manner.
Page 47 - The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity, of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.
Page 62 - They would contain various exceptions to powers not granted; and, on this very account, would afford a colorable pretext to claim more than were granted. For why declare that things shall not be done which there is no power to do?
Page 724 - The Legislature shall provide for the maintenance and support of a system of free common schools, wherein all the children of this State may be educated.
Page 276 - The judicial power of the United States, shall be vested in one Supreme Court, and in such inferior courts as Congress may from time to time ordain and establish.