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... ment , with which the Virginia company had nothing to do . And partly that such ( 54 ) act by them done ( this their condition considered ) might be as firm as any patent , and in some respects more sure . The form was as follows : In ...
... ment , with which the Virginia company had nothing to do . And partly that such ( 54 ) act by them done ( this their condition considered ) might be as firm as any patent , and in some respects more sure . The form was as follows : In ...
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... ment of their salaries . He has erected a multitude of New Offices , and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people , and eat out their substance . He has kept among us , in times of peace , Standing Armies without the Consent ...
... ment of their salaries . He has erected a multitude of New Offices , and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our people , and eat out their substance . He has kept among us , in times of peace , Standing Armies without the Consent ...
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... ment . When the United States Senate failed to act upon the treaties providing for an Isthmian canal , and for re- ciprocity with Cuba , President Roosevelt called an extra session of the senate , and the treaties were ratified , March ...
... ment . When the United States Senate failed to act upon the treaties providing for an Isthmian canal , and for re- ciprocity with Cuba , President Roosevelt called an extra session of the senate , and the treaties were ratified , March ...
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... ment that the address was shown to him before it was delivered and was approved by him . The ninth and last of the series was on " Biological Analogies in History , " and was delivered at Oxford , June 7th , 1910. It was the Romanes ...
... ment that the address was shown to him before it was delivered and was approved by him . The ninth and last of the series was on " Biological Analogies in History , " and was delivered at Oxford , June 7th , 1910. It was the Romanes ...
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... ment , U. S. Volunteers Cavalry , and of the National As- sociation of Spanish - American War Veterans , incorporated December 14th , 1899. He was made an honorary mem- ber of the Union League Club of Chicago in 1902 , and of the Alpine ...
... ment , U. S. Volunteers Cavalry , and of the National As- sociation of Spanish - American War Veterans , incorporated December 14th , 1899. He was made an honorary mem- ber of the Union League Club of Chicago in 1902 , and of the Alpine ...
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Page 186 - Treason against the United States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 184 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 179 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
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Page 183 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 173 - Georgia three. 4. When vacancies happen in the representation from any state, the executive authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies.
Page 7 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 169 - ... the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.