The Political Grammar of the United States: Or, A Complete View of the Theory and Practice of the General and State Governments, with the Relations Between ThemHarper & brothers, 1834 - 275 pages |
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... issue writs of election to fill up such vacan- cies . § 49. The necessity for this clause frequently arises , by virtue of the death or resignation of members of Congress . In some states , as in Massachusetts and Vermont , repeated ...
... issue writs of election to fill up such vacan- cies . § 49. The necessity for this clause frequently arises , by virtue of the death or resignation of members of Congress . In some states , as in Massachusetts and Vermont , repeated ...
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... issue them independent of the rest , all the others might immediately be involved in war by the instrument- ality of that one . It will be remarked , that this right again is , by the definition , an attribute of national sove- reignty ...
... issue them independent of the rest , all the others might immediately be involved in war by the instrument- ality of that one . It will be remarked , that this right again is , by the definition , an attribute of national sove- reignty ...
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... issue a mandamus to an officer of the United States . The official conduct of an officer of the government of the United States can only be con- trolled by the power that created him.5 285. State laws , as , for example , statutes of ...
... issue a mandamus to an officer of the United States . The official conduct of an officer of the government of the United States can only be con- trolled by the power that created him.5 285. State laws , as , for example , statutes of ...
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... on others . § 314. It is decided , in reference to the power of ap- pointments , that the Supreme Court cannot issue a man- 13 Story's Comm . 397 . damus to compel the delivery of a commission to an K 2 THE UNITED STATES . 113.
... on others . § 314. It is decided , in reference to the power of ap- pointments , that the Supreme Court cannot issue a man- 13 Story's Comm . 397 . damus to compel the delivery of a commission to an K 2 THE UNITED STATES . 113.
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... issues to the inferior court for execution.1 The record in such cases must show the error , by show- ing some act of jurisdiction . § 358. Jurisdiction in respect to locality . Here we may consider , 1st , Within what boundaries the ...
... issues to the inferior court for execution.1 The record in such cases must show the error , by show- ing some act of jurisdiction . § 358. Jurisdiction in respect to locality . Here we may consider , 1st , Within what boundaries the ...
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Page 161 - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Page 71 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Page 157 - 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.
Page 160 - ... 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 herein before directed to be taken.
Page 159 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Page 156 - Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. 5. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a president pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States. 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments: when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief-Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted...
Page 162 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the 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 62 - States, be considered as citizens thereof; and the children of persons who now are, or have been, citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 178 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 157 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.