Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... presented to Congress , and hence were not included in the Government records . Some cases of this kind have been found through an examination of the circular letters from the governors of the States proposing them directed to the ...
... presented to Congress , and hence were not included in the Government records . Some cases of this kind have been found through an examination of the circular letters from the governors of the States proposing them directed to the ...
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... presented a new set of questions , so that the amendments relating to the legal status of individuals , which previously had been of the least , now became of the greatest importance . From the large number of resolutions proposed ...
... presented a new set of questions , so that the amendments relating to the legal status of individuals , which previously had been of the least , now became of the greatest importance . From the large number of resolutions proposed ...
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... presented . The detailed examination of the proposed amendments which follows shows that the importance of these propositions does not lie in their influence in effecting actual changes within the Constitution merely , but that they are ...
... presented . The detailed examination of the proposed amendments which follows shows that the importance of these propositions does not lie in their influence in effecting actual changes within the Constitution merely , but that they are ...
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... presented by him early in this session a proposition , ' which , as reported in a slightly different form and passed by the House , read : " The powers delegated by the Constitution to the Government of the United States shall be ...
... presented by him early in this session a proposition , ' which , as reported in a slightly different form and passed by the House , read : " The powers delegated by the Constitution to the Government of the United States shall be ...
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... presenting a proposition similar to the one Jackson had been led to suggest because of Clay's acceptance of office in ... presented to Congress a resolution in favor of this restriction . * The length of the period of ineligibility ...
... presenting a proposition similar to the one Jackson had been led to suggest because of Clay's acceptance of office in ... presented to Congress a resolution in favor of this restriction . * The length of the period of ineligibility ...
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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.