Annual Report of the American Historical Association

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897

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Contents

Discussion of schemes for Presidential Election
111
Exclusion of electors from appointment by the President
122
Compensation of the President
129
Election of executive officials
141
Punishment of official misconduct
142
CHAPTER IV
144
Choice of judges
146
Judges to be ineligible to other offices
147
Impeachment
149
Age limit
151
Compensation of judges
153
Jurisdiction of the court
154
Suits against States
156
Other tribunals for the settlement of disputes between the States and the General Government
159
Summary of the propositions relative to the judiciary
163
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AFFECTING THE POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT 79 Division of powers between the States and the General Gov...
165
Effect of express prohibition on Congress
166
Suits against States
167
Performance of national functions by the States
169
Guaranty of the State governments
170
Acknowledgement of secession
172
Limitations on secession
173
Limitations on the States by the Reconstruction Amend ments
175
Exclusive power of Congress over the seat of government and other sites
176
Abridging territory
177
Annexation of territory
178
Admission of new States
180
Representation of the Territories and the District of Columbia in Congress
181
Relation of the United States with individuals
182
The first ten amendments
183
Doctrinaire propositions on the rights of man
185
Titles of nobility
186
Duelling
189
Marriage and divorce
190
Protection of personal liberty
192
Slavery propositions before 1860
193
Slavery propositions in 186061
194
Prohibition or limitation on abolition
195
Fugitive slaves
198
Slavery in the Territories
201
Admission of States
202
Acquirement of new territory
203
The District of Columbia and places under Federal juris diction
204
Right of transit with slaves
205
Slave insurrections and conspiracies
206
The foreign slave trade
208
Interstate slave trade and introduction of free negroes
209
The question of abolition
210
Abolition in the seceding States
211
Compensated emancipation
212
Compensation for slaves prohibited
213
The fifteenth amendment
229
Miscellaneous propositions on the suffrage since the fifteenth amendment
235
Suffrage of the Chinese
237
Present condition of the suffrage
239
Publication of the journals
240
Requisitions
242
Direct taxes
243
Taxation of corporations by States
245
Export duties
246
Payment of the Confederate debt
247
Claims for damages arising out of the civil war
248
Payment of the national debt
249
Protective tariffs 251
252
Status of financial legislation
253
Commercial power
254
National banks
255
The House of Representatives
256
Issuing of bank notes
257
Legaltender notes
258
Internal improvements
260
Navigation laws and embargoes
263
Bankruptcy laws
265
The status of commercial powers
266
Foreign affairs
267
Declaration of war
269
The militia
270
Military pensions
271
Prohibition of polygamy
272
Protection to labor
273
Education
274
The States to provide free public schools
275
Religion
277
Summary of amendments on the powers of the Government
279
CHAPTER VI
281
Proposed amendments in Congress
284
Ratification by conventions
286
Regulation of the ratification by the legislature
287
Propositions to change the majorities required by Article V
292
Ratification by popular vote
293
What constitutes twothirds majority under Article V
295
Is the signature of the governor essential to an amend ment to the Federal Constitution approved by the legis lature of the State
297
What constitutes threefourths of the States
298
Can a State reconsider its action upon an amendment
299
The difficulties of amendment
300
APPENDIX Calendar and bibliography of proposed amendments
306
Apportionment of Representatives
307
Election of Representatives
332
Distribution of the surplus 250
343
Proving elections to the House
394
Appropriation bills 250
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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...

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