Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... Method of amendment ...... 281 177. General convention to propose amendments . 281 178. Proposed amendments in Congress . 284 179. Ratification by conventions .... 286 180. Regulation of the ratification by the legislature .. 287 181 ...
... Method of amendment ...... 281 177. General convention to propose amendments . 281 178. Proposed amendments in Congress . 284 179. Ratification by conventions .... 286 180. Regulation of the ratification by the legislature .. 287 181 ...
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... method of its amendment is peculiarly American . Provision for the regular and orderly amendment of an instrument of government first appears in The Pennsyl vania Frame of Government of 1683. A similar provision reappears in the Act of ...
... method of its amendment is peculiarly American . Provision for the regular and orderly amendment of an instrument of government first appears in The Pennsyl vania Frame of Government of 1683. A similar provision reappears in the Act of ...
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... methods in the draft it sent out to the States for adoption . The desirability of some provision for amendment was ... method to be employed . Should the National Legislature or a convention called on application of the States propose ...
... methods in the draft it sent out to the States for adoption . The desirability of some provision for amendment was ... method to be employed . Should the National Legislature or a convention called on application of the States propose ...
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... method agreed upon by the committee and em- bodied in the first draft of the Constitution was as follows : " On application of the legislatures of two - thirds of the States of the Union for an amendment of this Constitution , the Leg ...
... method agreed upon by the committee and em- bodied in the first draft of the Constitution was as follows : " On application of the legislatures of two - thirds of the States of the Union for an amendment of this Constitution , the Leg ...
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... method of electing the President and the length of the Presidential term . At four different times , between the years 1813 and 1822 , an amend- ment proposing that the electors should be chosen by districts was passed by one House of ...
... method of electing the President and the length of the Presidential term . At four different times , between the years 1813 and 1822 , an amend- ment proposing that the electors should be chosen by districts was passed by one House of ...
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1st sess 2d sess 39th Cong 40th Cong adopted amend the Constitution amendments proposed Annals appointed Apportionment of Representatives attempts bill candidates Choice citizens civil clause committee Connecticut considered convention Corwin amendment Debates declared direct taxes direct vote election of President electoral vote Federal fifteenth amendment Finance fourteenth amendment Globe Government gress Hampshire House of Representatives Ibid Illinois ineligible introduced judges Judiciary jurisdiction Kentucky Legislative majority Maryland Massachusetts members of Congress ment Missouri motion negatived Niles North number of votes Ohio passed Pennsylvania Personal Relations popular vote presented President and Vice-President Presidential prohibited proposed amendments proposed an amendment proposition ratified read twice Record referred Register rejected reported Rhode Island second session secure series of amendments similar slavery South Carolina substitute suffrage suggested Supreme Court term Territorial thirteenth amendment tion twelfth amendment two-thirds United Vermont Virginia York
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Page 187 - If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept or retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
Page 179 - Florida also, whensoever it may be rightfully obtained, shall become a part of the United States, its white inhabitants shall thereupon be citizens, and shall stand, as to their rights and obligations, on the same footing with other citizens of the United States, in analogous situations.
Page 246 - ... the Constitution of the United States which prohibits a State from passing any law impairing the obligation of a contract. Whatever is granted is secured subject only to the limitations and reservations in the charter or in the laws or constitutions which govern it.
Page 211 - 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 138 - 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 211 - States may then have voluntarily adopted, or thereafter may voluntarily adopt, immediate or gradual abolishment of slavery within their respective 'limits; and that the effort to colonize persons of African descent with their consent upon this continent or elsewhere, with the previously obtained consent of the governments existing there, will be continued.
Page 44 - Congress, that there shall be not less than one hundred Representatives, nor less than one representative for every forty thousand persons, until the number of representatives shall amount to two hundred, after which the proportion shall be so regulated by Congress, that there shall not be less than two hundred Representatives, nor more than one Representative for every fifty thousand persons.
Page 260 - 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.
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 152 - We have erred in this point, by copying England, where certainly it is a good thing to have the judges independent of the King. But we have omitted to copy their caution also, which makes a judge removable on the address of both legislative Houses. That there should be public functionaries independent...