Americanization and Citizenship: Lessons in Community and National Ideals for New AmericansHoughton Mifflin Company, 1919 - 138 pages |
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... means . ( Read ¶ 29. ) To know the simple facts about city , State , and United States Government . ( These are given in Chapters II and III . ) To read carefully and learn to understand the Constitution of the United States . ( Study ...
... means . ( Read ¶ 29. ) To know the simple facts about city , State , and United States Government . ( These are given in Chapters II and III . ) To read carefully and learn to understand the Constitution of the United States . ( Study ...
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... mean time you may have changed your home . 2 If it happens that you arrived in the United States before June 29 , 1906 , the Clerk can give you at once the blank form called " Facts for Petition for Naturali- zation " and you can at ...
... mean time you may have changed your home . 2 If it happens that you arrived in the United States before June 29 , 1906 , the Clerk can give you at once the blank form called " Facts for Petition for Naturali- zation " and you can at ...
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... means of his vote each citizen has a share in making the Government good or bad . If good men are elected to office by the people , all the people are benefited ; if bad men are elected , all the people suffer . The vote of each citizen ...
... means of his vote each citizen has a share in making the Government good or bad . If good men are elected to office by the people , all the people are benefited ; if bad men are elected , all the people suffer . The vote of each citizen ...
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... means of securing united action among the voters who think alike . A voter cannot accom- plish much unless he belongs to a party and works and votes with it . Yet it must be remembered that a party is merely a means to accomplish a ...
... means of securing united action among the voters who think alike . A voter cannot accom- plish much unless he belongs to a party and works and votes with it . Yet it must be remembered that a party is merely a means to accomplish a ...
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... means of schools , ele- mentary , high , evening , and continuation schools . It also establishes public libraries and museums . Recreation . The city furnishes its citizens with means of health and recreation through parks ...
... means of schools , ele- mentary , high , evening , and continuation schools . It also establishes public libraries and museums . Recreation . The city furnishes its citizens with means of health and recreation through parks ...
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Page 63 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 63 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 59 - No State shall enter into any treaty, alliance, or confederation; grant letters of marque and reprisal; coin money; emit bills of credit; make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts; pass any bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law impairing the obligation of contracts, or grant any title of nobility. 2. No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay any imposts or duties on imports or exports, except what may be absolutely necessary for executing its inspection...
Page 62 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
Page 63 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 60 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 61 - 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 64 - All debts contracted and engagements entered into, before the adoption of this constitution, shall be as valid against the United States under this constitution as under the Confederation. 2. This constitution, and the laws of the United States which shall be made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made, or which shall be made, under the authority of the United States, shall be the supreme law of the land; and the judges in every State shall be bound thereby...
Page 68 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice-President shall be the Vice-President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers 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. 3. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 58 - ... 5 No tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any State. 6 No preference shall be given by any regulation of commerce or revenue to the ports of one State over those of another: nor shall vessels bound to, or from, one State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another.