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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... unless a much stronger national government could be instituted , all that had been gained by the Revolutionary struggle would soon be lost . § 9. Many of the more prominent patriots and statesmen of the day had made the effort to obtain ...
... unless a much stronger national government could be instituted , all that had been gained by the Revolutionary struggle would soon be lost . § 9. Many of the more prominent patriots and statesmen of the day had made the effort to obtain ...
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... unless Great Britain or the Colonies should take an immediate backward step . Indeed , this Declaration of Rights foreshadowed the Declaration of Independence . DECLARATION OF RIGHTS . WHEREAS , since the close of the last war , the ...
... unless Great Britain or the Colonies should take an immediate backward step . Indeed , this Declaration of Rights foreshadowed the Declaration of Independence . DECLARATION OF RIGHTS . WHEREAS , since the close of the last war , the ...
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... unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and , when so suspended , he has utterly neglected to attend to them . He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people , unless ...
... unless suspended in their operation till his assent should be obtained ; and , when so suspended , he has utterly neglected to attend to them . He has refused to pass other laws for the accommodation of large districts of people , unless ...
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... unless such State be actually in- vaded by enemies , or shall have received certain advice of a resolu- tion being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State , and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay till the ...
... unless such State be actually in- vaded by enemies , or shall have received certain advice of a resolu- tion being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such State , and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay till the ...
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... unless the Legislature of such State shall judge that such extra num- ber cannot be safely spared out of the same ; in which case they shall raise , officer , clothe , arm , and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be ...
... unless the Legislature of such State shall judge that such extra num- ber cannot be safely spared out of the same ; in which case they shall raise , officer , clothe , arm , and equip as many of such extra number as they judge can be ...
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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.