Readings in American Government and PoliticsMacmillan, 1914 - 638 pages |
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... carried on , irregularities of this kind must not kept . frequently happen . Accordingly , not a year has passed without instances of them ir . some one or other of the States . The Treaty of Peace , the treaty with France , the treaty ...
... carried on , irregularities of this kind must not kept . frequently happen . Accordingly , not a year has passed without instances of them ir . some one or other of the States . The Treaty of Peace , the treaty with France , the treaty ...
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... carried into execution ? Is the security or probability greater in favor of the acts of Congress , which , depend- ing for their execution on the will of the State legislatures , are , tho ' nominally authoritative , in fact ...
... carried into execution ? Is the security or probability greater in favor of the acts of Congress , which , depend- ing for their execution on the will of the State legislatures , are , tho ' nominally authoritative , in fact ...
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... carry prevented into effect schemes of oppression . If the impulse and the op- from portunity be suffered to coincide , we well know , that neither moral oppressing nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control . They ...
... carry prevented into effect schemes of oppression . If the impulse and the op- from portunity be suffered to coincide , we well know , that neither moral oppressing nor religious motives can be relied on as an adequate control . They ...
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... carried into execution , legitimate which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it , in the ... carrying into execution the great powers vested in government , ought to have specified this . Had it been intended to ...
... carried into execution , legitimate which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it , in the ... carrying into execution the great powers vested in government , ought to have specified this . Had it been intended to ...
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... carry his point ) , as many have done ; for we have nothing that partakes of even the character of a reg- istration of voters not anything to serve as a check upon the unprincipled ; and he who can gain the most of such to his side has ...
... carry his point ) , as many have done ; for we have nothing that partakes of even the character of a reg- istration of voters not anything to serve as a check upon the unprincipled ; and he who can gain the most of such to his side has ...
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Page 21 - States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 224 - Measures; 6 To provide for the Punishment of counterfeiting the Securities and current Coin of the United States...
Page 609 - 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.1 5. No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State.
Page 25 - The committee of the States, or any nine of them, shall be authorized to execute in the recess of Congress, such of the powers of Congress as the United States in Congress assembled, by the consent of nine States, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with...
Page 363 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Page 26 - AND WHEREAS it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Page 43 - But the most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those who are without property have ever formed distinct interests in society.
Page 24 - ... place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States in Congress assembled ; but if the United States in Congress assembled shall, on consideration of circumstances, judge proper that any State should not raise men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other State should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 21 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated, according to such mode as the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint.
Page 26 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.