The Constitutions of the States at War, 1914-1918Herbert Francis Wright U.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 679 pages |
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... unless he were apprehended in the very act . Even when the member is taken in the very act , the court shall give immediate notice of the arrest to the president of the house . If the house requires it , the arrest must be suspended or ...
... unless he were apprehended in the very act . Even when the member is taken in the very act , the court shall give immediate notice of the arrest to the president of the house . If the house requires it , the arrest must be suspended or ...
Page 38
... unless they deliver once for all to the president of the Royal Hungarian Ministry a declaration that they for them- selves will exercise such right only in the Hungarian Upper House ; this declaration shall be made within six months ...
... unless they deliver once for all to the president of the Royal Hungarian Ministry a declaration that they for them- selves will exercise such right only in the Hungarian Upper House ; this declaration shall be made within six months ...
Page 40
... unless this is expressly provided by law . ART . 8. The members designated by Article 1 , Clause d , shall have the right to take part in the deliberations and voting only with refer- ence to the matters common to the countries and ...
... unless this is expressly provided by law . ART . 8. The members designated by Article 1 , Clause d , shall have the right to take part in the deliberations and voting only with refer- ence to the matters common to the countries and ...
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... unless a majority of its members are present . ART . 39. The votes shall be viva voce or by rising and sitting ; the vote on a law as a whole shall always be by roll call and viva voce . The election and nomination of candidates shall ...
... unless a majority of its members are present . ART . 39. The votes shall be viva voce or by rising and sitting ; the vote on a law as a whole shall always be by roll call and viva voce . The election and nomination of candidates shall ...
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... unless he be ap- prehended in the commission of an offense . No member of either house shall be arrested during the session , except by the same authority . The detention or the prosecution of a member of either house shall be suspended ...
... unless he be ap- prehended in the commission of an offense . No member of either house shall be arrested during the session , except by the same authority . The detention or the prosecution of a member of either house shall be suspended ...
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Page 620 - ... on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Page 173 - 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 617 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.
Page 612 - The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, but a tax or duty may be imposed on such importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each person.
Page 246 - England," it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his freehold or liberties, or his free customs, or be outlawed or exiled, or in any manner destroyed, but by the lawful judgment of his peers, or by the law of the land.
Page 257 - And that for redress of all grievances and for the amending, strengthening and preserving of the laws parliaments ought to be held frequently.
Page 257 - That the pretended power of dispensing with laws, or the execution of laws, by regal authority, as it hath been assumed and exercised of late, is illegal.
Page 623 - SECTION 1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. SECTION 2. Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.
Page 362 - The liberty of the press is essential to the security of freedom in a state': it ought not, therefore, to be restrained in this commonwealth.
Page 247 - By pretext whereof some of Your Majesty's subjects have been by some of the said commissioners put to death, when and where, if, by the laws and statutes of the land, they had deserved death, by the same laws and statutes also they might, and by no other ought, to have been judged and executed.