The Americana: A Universal Reference Library, Comprising the Arts and Sciences, Literature, History, Biography, Geography, Commerce, Etc., of the World, Volume 6Frederick Converse Beach, George Edwin Rines Scientific American compiling department, 1912 |
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... became emperor of the whole West . He was weak , profligate , and rapacious . His mis- rule caused an insurrection in Gaul under Mag- nentius ; he fled to Spain , but was overtaken at the foot of the Pyrenees by the soldiers of the ...
... became emperor of the whole West . He was weak , profligate , and rapacious . His mis- rule caused an insurrection in Gaul under Mag- nentius ; he fled to Spain , but was overtaken at the foot of the Pyrenees by the soldiers of the ...
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... became Cæsar in 292 , received Britain , Gaul , and Spain as his government , and after re - establishing Roman power in Britain and defeating the Alemanni , became one of the two Augustuses in 305 . Constantine the Great , his son ...
... became Cæsar in 292 , received Britain , Gaul , and Spain as his government , and after re - establishing Roman power in Britain and defeating the Alemanni , became one of the two Augustuses in 305 . Constantine the Great , his son ...
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... became Democrats on the Reconstruction issue . Consult : Hollis , The Frigate Constitution ' ( 1900 ) ; Maclay , ' History of the United States Navy , Vol . I. ( 2d ed . 1898 ) ; Henry Adams , " History of the United States , ' Vol . VI ...
... became Democrats on the Reconstruction issue . Consult : Hollis , The Frigate Constitution ' ( 1900 ) ; Maclay , ' History of the United States Navy , Vol . I. ( 2d ed . 1898 ) ; Henry Adams , " History of the United States , ' Vol . VI ...
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... became wonderfully adapted to an aquatic life , during this process losing by disuse their hind limbs , while the fore legs became converted into fins . By adaptation to the same medium , a fish and a whale have a similar shape and a ...
... became wonderfully adapted to an aquatic life , during this process losing by disuse their hind limbs , while the fore legs became converted into fins . By adaptation to the same medium , a fish and a whale have a similar shape and a ...
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... became professor of zoology in Pomona College , Claremont , California . He was one of the first to make kerosene emulsion ( 1877 ) , and to advocate and demonstrate the use of the arsenites as a specific against the codling moth ( 1880 ) ...
... became professor of zoology in Pomona College , Claremont , California . He was one of the first to make kerosene emulsion ( 1877 ) , and to advocate and demonstrate the use of the arsenites as a specific against the codling moth ( 1880 ) ...
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Page 5 - Party, the Supreme Court shall have original Jurisdiction. In all the other Cases before mentioned, the supreme Court shall have appellate Jurisdiction, both as to Law and Fact, with such Exceptions, and under such Regulations as the 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...
Page 6 - 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. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 4 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. 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.
Page 5 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 3 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 11 - Treason against the United 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 5 - ... 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 6 - X. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. ARTICLE XI. The judicial power of the United States shall not be construed to extend to any suit in law or equity, commenced or prosecuted against one of the United States by citizens of another state, or by citizens or subjects of any foreign state.
Page 5 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the 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 5 - 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...