The New American Government and Its WorkMacmillan Company, 1915 - 679 pages |
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... increased the duties of all branches of our government . Manufac- turing has involved : Government efforts to aid ... increase in the volume of public business means that a radical change must be made in the old methods of work and in ...
... increased the duties of all branches of our government . Manufac- turing has involved : Government efforts to aid ... increase in the volume of public business means that a radical change must be made in the old methods of work and in ...
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... increased 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 . " While he may not be paid more as a part of his ...
... increased 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 . " While he may not be paid more as a part of his ...
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... increase in the number of affairs which require the constant every - day attention of the administrative authorities ... increased activities and powers of the Government . I cannot even suggest the expansion which this generation has ...
... increase in the number of affairs which require the constant every - day attention of the administrative authorities ... increased activities and powers of the Government . I cannot even suggest the expansion which this generation has ...
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... increase of our export trade due to the expansion of home manufactures . So long as the United States remained an ... increasing points of contact with foreign peoples have given the basis for a new foreign policy . We want our ...
... increase of our export trade due to the expansion of home manufactures . So long as the United States remained an ... increasing points of contact with foreign peoples have given the basis for a new foreign policy . We want our ...
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... increase of authority . Public opinion demands the reduction of military expenses and the return to their homes of the men who have volunteered for the war . In the face of this demand no scheme for military dictatorship could survive ...
... increase of authority . Public opinion demands the reduction of military expenses and the return to their homes of the men who have volunteered for the war . In the face of this demand no scheme for military dictatorship could survive ...
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Page 608 - ... 3. 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.
Page 601 - Representatives and direct taxes shall be apportioned among the several States which may be included within this union, according to their respective numbers, which shall be determined by adding to the whole number of free persons, including those bound to service for a term of years and excluding Indians not taxed...
Page 611 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 604 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 608 - 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 Executive...
Page 235 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property and individual liberty and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 605 - Money shall be published from time to time. 8 No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States : And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
Page 325 - ... to be arrested and secured, and notice of the arrest to be given to the executive authority making such demand, or to the agent of such authority appointed to receive the fugitive, and to cause the fugitive to be delivered to such agent when he shall appear...
Page 257 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 603 - Each House shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the members of either House on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.