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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... jury • Number of jurors ; right of challenge . Jury to be of the vicinage . Verdict to be unanimous and free Instructions of the judge , how limited Power of jury to judge of law . Page 295 • 298 299 299-308 299-304 303-308 · · 306 ...
... jury • Number of jurors ; right of challenge . Jury to be of the vicinage . Verdict to be unanimous and free Instructions of the judge , how limited Power of jury to judge of law . Page 295 • 298 299 299-308 299-304 303-308 · · 306 ...
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... jury as judges of the law in libel cases Mr. Fox's Libel Act · " Good motives and justifiable ends , " burden of showing is on 445 448 · 448 , 449 451 · 457 460 462 defendant . What is not sufficient to show . 464 465 , 466 , notes ...
... jury as judges of the law in libel cases Mr. Fox's Libel Act · " Good motives and justifiable ends , " burden of showing is on 445 448 · 448 , 449 451 · 457 460 462 defendant . What is not sufficient to show . 464 465 , 466 , notes ...
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... Jury 499 Davis v . Bank of Fulton 142 Cummings v . Missouri v . Holbrook 614 266 v . Minor 365 Cunningham v . Brown 441 v . New York Cupp v . Seneca Co. Curran v . Arkansas v Schattuck 403 , 561 v . Richardson 206 , 207 484 14 v . State ...
... Jury 499 Davis v . Bank of Fulton 142 Cummings v . Missouri v . Holbrook 614 266 v . Minor 365 Cunningham v . Brown 441 v . New York Cupp v . Seneca Co. Curran v . Arkansas v Schattuck 403 , 561 v . Richardson 206 , 207 484 14 v . State ...
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... jury is preserved by the Constitution of the United States , the States may , nevertheless , if they choose , provide for the trial of all offences against the States , as well as the trial of civil cases in the State courts , without ...
... jury is preserved by the Constitution of the United States , the States may , nevertheless , if they choose , provide for the trial of all offences against the States , as well as the trial of civil cases in the State courts , without ...
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... jury shall be preserved ; that excessive bail shall not be required , nor excessive punishments inflicted ; that no person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offence , nor be compelled in any criminal case to be a ...
... jury shall be preserved ; that excessive bail shall not be required , nor excessive punishments inflicted ; that no person shall be subject to be twice put in jeopardy for the same offence , nor be compelled in any criminal case to be a ...
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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...