Analysis of Civil Government, Including a Topical and Tabular Arrangement of the Constitution of the United States: Designed as a Class-book for the Use of Grammar, Normal, and High Schools, Academies, Seminaries, Colleges, Universities, and Other Institutions of Learning |
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... thereof . § 2. The growth of the Colonies was slow and gradual , running along through a period of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty years . The prerogatives of the Crown and the rights of the people had not been clearly defined ...
... thereof . § 2. The growth of the Colonies was slow and gradual , running along through a period of from one hundred to one hundred and fifty years . The prerogatives of the Crown and the rights of the people had not been clearly defined ...
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... thereof , under the direction of its legislature , for their assent and ratification ; and that each Convention assenting to and ratifying the same should give notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled . § 26. The ...
... thereof , under the direction of its legislature , for their assent and ratification ; and that each Convention assenting to and ratifying the same should give notice thereof to the United States in Congress assembled . § 26. The ...
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... thereof respectively ; provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property , imported into any State , to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant ; provided also that no imposition ...
... thereof respectively ; provided that such restriction shall not extend so far as to prevent the removal of property , imported into any State , to any other State of which the owner is an inhabitant ; provided also that no imposition ...
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... thereof , against which war has been so declared , and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled , unless such State be infested by pirates ; in which case vessels - of - war may be fitted ...
... thereof , against which war has been so declared , and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled , unless such State be infested by pirates ; in which case vessels - of - war may be fitted ...
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... thereof shall be given by order of Congress to the legislative or executive au- thority of the other State in controversy , and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents , who shall then be directed to ...
... thereof shall be given by order of Congress to the legislative or executive au- thority of the other State in controversy , and a day assigned for the appearance of the parties by their lawful agents , who shall then be directed to ...
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Page 57 - Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. 5 The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a president pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States. 6 The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments. When sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the chief justice shall preside: and no person shall be convicted...
Page 67 - ... 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 the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 179 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states..
Page 48 - No vessels of war shall be kept up in time of peace by any State, except such number only as shall be deemed necessary by the United States, in Congress assembled, for the defence of such State or its trade, nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State in time of peace, except such number only...
Page 178 - States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the States — provided that the legislative right of any State within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 26 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a convention of delegates, who shall have been appointed by the several States, be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the...
Page 76 - Resolved, — That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention that it should afterwards 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 68 - 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 54 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted, by or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed. and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith, are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 201 - ... he has behaved as a man of good moral character, attached to the principles of the Constitution of the United States, and well disposed to the good order and happiness of the same.