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... jurisdiction of the Supreme Court 119 22 . relating to the organization of Courts of Justice and their powers and duties 121 23 . regulating the terms of the District Court in the several Judicial Districts 123 24 . defining the duties ...
... jurisdiction of the Supreme Court 119 22 . relating to the organization of Courts of Justice and their powers and duties 121 23 . regulating the terms of the District Court in the several Judicial Districts 123 24 . defining the duties ...
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... jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ; For protecting them by a mock trial , from ...
... jurisdiction foreign to our Constitution , and unacknowledged by our laws ; giving his assent to their acts of pretended legislation : For quartering large bodies of armed troops among us ; For protecting them by a mock trial , from ...
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... jurisdiction over us . We have reminded them of the cir- cumstances of our emigration and settlement here . We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , and we have conjured them , by the ties of our common kindred , to ...
... jurisdiction over us . We have reminded them of the cir- cumstances of our emigration and settlement here . We have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity , and we have conjured them , by the ties of our common kindred , to ...
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... jurisdiction of Suits brought by indi- viduals against one of the States . XII . Manner of choosing President and Vice President . PREAMBLE . WE , the People of the United States , in order to form a more Preamble . perfect union ...
... jurisdiction of Suits brought by indi- viduals against one of the States . XII . Manner of choosing President and Vice President . PREAMBLE . WE , the People of the United States , in order to form a more Preamble . perfect union ...
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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Page 9 - In Congress, July 4, 1776 The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires...
Page 19 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 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...
Page 26 - States, with a request that it might " be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the. recommendation of its legislature, for their assent and ratification.
Page 44 - Territories, as recognized by the legislation of 1850, commonly called the compromise measures, is hereby declared inoperative and void— it being the true Intent and meaning of this act, not to legislate slavery into any Territory or State, nor to exclude It therefrom, but to leave the people thereof perfectly free to form and regulate their domestic Institutions in their own way, subject only to the Constitution of the United States...
Page 35 - That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to impair the rights of person or property now pertaining to the Indians in said territory, so long as such rights shall remain unextinguished by treaty between the United States and such Indians...
Page 32 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the union of the United States, and admitted as soon as possible, according to the principles of the federal constitution, to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States ; and in the meantime they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the religion which they profess.
Page 40 - ... and each of the said district courts shall have and exercise the same jurisdiction in all cases arising under the constitution and laws of the United States...
Page 38 - Territory at the time of the passage of this act, shall be entitled to vote at the first election, and shall be eligible to any office within the said Territory; but the qualifications of voters and of holding office at all subsequent elections shall be such as shall be prescribed by the legislative assembly: Provided, That the right of suffrage and of holding office shall be exercised only by citizens of the United States...
Page 11 - They, too, have been deaf to the voice of justice and consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity which denounces our separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest of mankind — enemies in war, in peace friends.
Page 10 - Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people. He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions to cause others to be elected ; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise ; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.