Annual Report of the American Historical Association

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897

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Contents

Election of the President by the people as the legislature
86
Election of President and VicePresident directly by a com
92
Page
93
Election from candidates designated by the States
98
Election of President and VicePresident by the voters
104
Discussion of schemes for Presidential Election
111
Exclusion of electors from appointment by the President
122
Compensation of the President
129
CHAPTER IV
144
Age limit
151
Other tribunals for the settlement of disputes between
159
GOVERNMENT
165
Limitations on secession
173
Representation of the Territories and the District
181
Duelling
189
Marriage and divorce
190
Protection of personal liberty
192
Slavery propositions before 1860
193
Slavery propositions in 186061
194
Prohibition or limitation on abolition
195
Fugitive slaves
198
Slavery in the Territories
201
Admission of States
202
Acquirement of new territory
203
The District of Columbia and places under Federal juris diction
204
Right of transit with slaves
205
Slave insurrections and conspiracies
206
The foreign slave trade
208
Interstate slave trade and introduction of free negroes
209
The question of abolition
210
Abolition in the seceding States
211
Compensated emancipation
212
Compensation for slaves prohibited
213
Total abolition urged
214
Abolition secured by the thirteenth amendment
217
Citizenship of negroes denied
218
The fourteenth amendment
219
Further enforcement of civil rights
222
Disability of participants in the rebellion
223
Restrictions on the suffrage
226
Extension of the suffrage to negroes
227

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Page 209 - ... time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States and their respective States and people, if that relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves.
Page 143 - That the supreme court of the United States shall consist of a chief justice and five associate justices...
Page 14 - Resolved that provision ought to be made for the amendment of the Articles of Union whensoever it shall seem necessary, and that the assent of the National Legislature ought not to be required thereto.
Page 164 - The powers not delegated by this Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively.
Page 209 - 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 169 - 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 Executive (when the Legislature can not be convened), against domestic violence.
Page 136 - 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 164 - First, that it be explicitly declared that all Powers not expressly delegated by the aforesaid Constitution are reserved to the several States to be by them exercised.
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.

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