A Treatise on the Constitutional Limitations which Rest Upon the Legislative Power of the States of the American UnionLittle, Brown,, 1874 - 827 pages |
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... Adoption of the Constitution by North Carolina , Rhode Island , and the new States ; United States government one of enumerated powers • 5 • 5 , 6 • 7,8 General purpose of this government Powers conferred upon Congress Executive and ...
... Adoption of the Constitution by North Carolina , Rhode Island , and the new States ; United States government one of enumerated powers • 5 • 5 , 6 • 7,8 General purpose of this government Powers conferred upon Congress Executive and ...
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... adopted • Common law in force ; what it consists in English and Colonial legislation . . · Colonial charters and revolutionary constitutions Constitutions of new States . Sovereignty of the people • Proceedings in the formation and ...
... adopted • Common law in force ; what it consists in English and Colonial legislation . . · Colonial charters and revolutionary constitutions Constitutions of new States . Sovereignty of the people • Proceedings in the formation and ...
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... adopted 206 Presumption of correct action 208 Power to indemnify officers 209 , 210 creation Powers to be construed with reference to purposes of their Authority confined to corporate limits . Municipal subscriptions to works of ...
... adopted 206 Presumption of correct action 208 Power to indemnify officers 209 , 210 creation Powers to be construed with reference to purposes of their Authority confined to corporate limits . Municipal subscriptions to works of ...
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... adopted . It follows , therefore , that in Great Britain constitutional questions are for the most part to be discussed before the people or the Parliament , since the declared will of the Parliament is the final law ; but in America ...
... adopted . It follows , therefore , that in Great Britain constitutional questions are for the most part to be discussed before the people or the Parliament , since the declared will of the Parliament is the final law ; but in America ...
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... adoption of the common law by the States , see Van Nest v . Pacard , 2 Pet . 144 , per Story , J .; post , p . 23 , and cases cited in notes . [ 23 ] [ * 21 ] * CHAPTER III . THE FORMATION CH . II . ] * 19 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED ...
... adoption of the common law by the States , see Van Nest v . Pacard , 2 Pet . 144 , per Story , J .; post , p . 23 , and cases cited in notes . [ 23 ] [ * 21 ] * CHAPTER III . THE FORMATION CH . II . ] * 19 THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED ...
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Page 596 - It shall be the duty of the Legislature to provide for the organization of cities and incorporated villages, and to restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts, and loaning their credit, so as to prevent abuses in assessments and in contracting debt by such municipal corporations...
Page 485 - No law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all prosecutions or indictments for libel, the truth may be given in evidence to the jury ; and if it shall appear to the jury that the matter charged as libelous is true, and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 341 - The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the forces of the crown. It may be frail — its roof may shake — the wind may blow through it — the storm may enter — the rain may enter — but the King of England cannot enter !— all his force dares not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement...
Page 597 - Laws shall be passed, taxing by a uniform rule, all moneys, credits, investments in bonds, stocks, joint stock companies, or otherwise; and also all real and personal property, according to its true value in money...
Page 297 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 201 - The question, whether a law be void for its repugnancy to the Constitution, is, at all times, a question of much delicacy, which ought seldom, if ever, to be decided in the affirmative, in a doubtful case.
Page 487 - The free communication of thoughts and opinions is one of the invaluable rights of man; and every citizen may freely speak, write, and print on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that liberty.
Page 63 - States; 5 To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures; 6 To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States...
Page 63 - To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular States, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased, by the consent of the Legislature of the State in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings : and, 17.
Page 486 - Every citizen may. freely speak, write, and publish his sentiments on all subjects, being responsible for the abuse of that right ; and no law shall be passed to restrain or abridge the liberty of speech, or of the press. In all...