The Constitutional Text-book: A Practical and Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States, and of Portions of the Public and Administrative Law of the Federal Government : Designed Chiefly for the Use of Schools, Academies, and CollegesSower, Barnes & Potts, 1855 - 324 pages |
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... Nomination confirmed and appointed 25th November , 1811 . Appointed Secretary of War 27th September , 1814 . JAMES MONROE , of Virginia . Appointed 28th February , 1815. Be- came President of the United States 4th March , 1817 . JOHN ...
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 25th November , 1811 . Appointed Secretary of War 27th September , 1814 . JAMES MONROE , of Virginia . Appointed 28th February , 1815. Be- came President of the United States 4th March , 1817 . JOHN ...
Page 190
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 2d January , 1844 . JOHN C. CALHOUN , of South Carolina . Appointed 6th March , 1844 , JAMES BUCHANAN , of Pennsylvania . Appointed 5th March , 1845 . JOHN M. CLAYTON , of Delaware . Appointed 7th ...
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 2d January , 1844 . JOHN C. CALHOUN , of South Carolina . Appointed 6th March , 1844 , JAMES BUCHANAN , of Pennsylvania . Appointed 5th March , 1845 . JOHN M. CLAYTON , of Delaware . Appointed 7th ...
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... Nomination confirmed and appointed 15th December , 1817 . JAMES BARBOUR , of Virginia . Appointed 7th March , 1825 . PETER B. PORTER , of New York . Appointed 26th May , 1828 . JOHN H. EATON , of Tennessee . Appointed 9th March , 1829 ...
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 15th December , 1817 . JAMES BARBOUR , of Virginia . Appointed 7th March , 1825 . PETER B. PORTER , of New York . Appointed 26th May , 1828 . JOHN H. EATON , of Tennessee . Appointed 9th March , 1829 ...
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... Nomination confirmed and appointed 20th December , 1841 . JAMES M. PORTER , of Pennsylvania . Appointed 8th March , 1843 , in recess of the Senate . WILLIAM WILKINS , of Pennsylvania . Appointed 15th February , 1844 . WILLIAM L. MARCY ...
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 20th December , 1841 . JAMES M. PORTER , of Pennsylvania . Appointed 8th March , 1843 , in recess of the Senate . WILLIAM WILKINS , of Pennsylvania . Appointed 15th February , 1844 . WILLIAM L. MARCY ...
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... Nomination confirmed and appointed 26th January , 1802 . GEORGE W. CAMPBELL , of Tennessee . Appointed 9th February , 1814 Resigned . ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS , of Pennsylvania , appointed 6th October THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS . 195.
... Nomination confirmed and appointed 26th January , 1802 . GEORGE W. CAMPBELL , of Tennessee . Appointed 9th February , 1814 Resigned . ALEXANDER JAMES DALLAS , of Pennsylvania , appointed 6th October THE EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS . 195.
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Page 282 - The name of American, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles.
Page 281 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Page 28 - Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Page 271 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members ; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 42 - 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 69 - When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers ; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Page 285 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Page 34 - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 292 - I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good ; that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of pretended patriotism ; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
Page 31 - States; 3 To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes; 4 To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United 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...