Annual Report of the American Historical AssociationU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
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... SECURE AMENDMENTS . 1. Origin of the amending power in the Constitution of the United States : Proceedings of the Federal Convention ...... 2. Purpose and scope of the monograph ; division of the proposed amendments into periods .. 3 ...
... SECURE AMENDMENTS . 1. Origin of the amending power in the Constitution of the United States : Proceedings of the Federal Convention ...... 2. Purpose and scope of the monograph ; division of the proposed amendments into periods .. 3 ...
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... secure the text by con- sulting the file of the original printed drafts of resolutions and bills , which are to be found in the Senate document room in Washington . It is probable that some amendments proposed by the various State ...
... secure the text by con- sulting the file of the original printed drafts of resolutions and bills , which are to be found in the Senate document room in Washington . It is probable that some amendments proposed by the various State ...
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... SECURE AMENDMENTS . 1. ORIGIN OF THE AMENDING POWER IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES : PROCEEDINGS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION . The " fathers " of the Constitution were not sanguine enough to suppose that the organic law which ...
... SECURE AMENDMENTS . 1. ORIGIN OF THE AMENDING POWER IN THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES : PROCEEDINGS OF THE FEDERAL CONVENTION . The " fathers " of the Constitution were not sanguine enough to suppose that the organic law which ...
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... secure the adoption of an amendment ? The matter first came before the Convention , May 29 , 1787 , through one of the articles of the Randolph plan , which read as follows : " Resolved , that provision ought to be made for the ...
... secure the adoption of an amendment ? The matter first came before the Convention , May 29 , 1787 , through one of the articles of the Randolph plan , which read as follows : " Resolved , that provision ought to be made for the ...
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... secure a provision to prevent the ratification of an amendment without the consent of all . The failure to secure amendments to the " Articles of Confederation , " because of a similar provision , was too deeply impressed upon the minds ...
... secure a provision to prevent the ratification of an amendment without the consent of all . The failure to secure amendments to the " Articles of Confederation , " because of a similar provision , was too deeply impressed upon the minds ...
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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...