Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... similar provision , was too deeply impressed upon the minds of all to permit such a restriction meeting with general approval . In the course of the discussion the question whether certain features of the Constitution should be exempt ...
... similar provision , was too deeply impressed upon the minds of all to permit such a restriction meeting with general approval . In the course of the discussion the question whether certain features of the Constitution should be exempt ...
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... similar character were offered in Congress . The failure of the electors in 1824 to choose a President , and the subsequent defeat of Jackson by the House of Representatives , gave rise to a very large num- ber of propositions upon the ...
... similar character were offered in Congress . The failure of the electors in 1824 to choose a President , and the subsequent defeat of Jackson by the House of Representatives , gave rise to a very large num- ber of propositions upon the ...
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... similar to those suggested by the State conventions . One was proposed by Mr. Sedgwick , giving Congress power to make regulations for elections , provided the States made improper 2 App . Nos . 3 , 10 , 16 , 41 , 49 , 94 , 105 . 1 Art ...
... similar to those suggested by the State conventions . One was proposed by Mr. Sedgwick , giving Congress power to make regulations for elections , provided the States made improper 2 App . Nos . 3 , 10 , 16 , 41 , 49 , 94 , 105 . 1 Art ...
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... similar resolution was offered , but included the Senate as well as the House . This may have been suggested by the connection of Senator Smith of Maryland with a Baltimore firm which had large contracts with the Government . A third ...
... similar resolution was offered , but included the Senate as well as the House . This may have been suggested by the connection of Senator Smith of Maryland with a Baltimore firm which had large contracts with the Government . A third ...
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... similar amend- ments were submitted at almost every session of Congress . The last one proposing a general disqualification from all offices was presented in 1850.4 The amendment proposed by the legislature of Tennessee in November of ...
... similar amend- ments were submitted at almost every session of Congress . The last one proposing a general disqualification from all offices was presented in 1850.4 The amendment proposed by the legislature of Tennessee in November of ...
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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.