Cases and Opinions on Constitutional Law: And Various Points of English Jurisprudence, Collected and Digested from Official Documents and Other Sources; with Notes |
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... Order in Council .. .. .. ( 9. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir C. Robinson , Sir R. Gifford , and Sir J. Copley , on the notification of the Demise of the Crown in a Colony ( 10. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir J. Campbell and Sir R. M. Rolfe ...
... Order in Council .. .. .. ( 9. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir C. Robinson , Sir R. Gifford , and Sir J. Copley , on the notification of the Demise of the Crown in a Colony ( 10. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir J. Campbell and Sir R. M. Rolfe ...
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... Order in Council , the manner in which another Council of Government should be formed , or whether his Royal Highness is still bound to require the late members to furnish names of other persons from which to make an election of their ...
... Order in Council , the manner in which another Council of Government should be formed , or whether his Royal Highness is still bound to require the late members to furnish names of other persons from which to make an election of their ...
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... Council to revive the authority of such repealed or abrogated laws ? We have now the honour to report to your Lordship , in answer to the first question , that , in our opinion , the Queen has the power , by Order in Council , to make ...
... Council to revive the authority of such repealed or abrogated laws ? We have now the honour to report to your Lordship , in answer to the first question , that , in our opinion , the Queen has the power , by Order in Council , to make ...
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... Order in Council of 1835 , to alter those laws ; and we therefore think that it would be lawful for the Legislature of St. Helena ( under the direction of Her Majesty's Government ) to pass an ordinance conferring on a foreigner power ...
... Order in Council of 1835 , to alter those laws ; and we therefore think that it would be lawful for the Legislature of St. Helena ( under the direction of Her Majesty's Government ) to pass an ordinance conferring on a foreigner power ...
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... Order of his Majesty in Council ; that it may not be given by a commission or instruction under the King's sign - manual and signet . . . . We do not say that the King's will , intimated by the Secretary of State for the Colonies ...
... Order of his Majesty in Council ; that it may not be given by a commission or instruction under the King's sign - manual and signet . . . . We do not say that the King's will , intimated by the Secretary of State for the Colonies ...
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Page 349 - ... end that the evidence of criminality may be heard and considered; and if, on such hearing, the evidence be deemed sufficient to sustain the charge, it shall be the duty of the examining judge or magistrate to certify the same to the proper executive authority, that a warrant may issue for the surrender of such fugitive.
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Page 493 - WAS shown in the last paper that the political apothegm there examined does not require that the legislative, executive, and judiciary departments should be wholly unconnected with each other. I shall undertake, in the next place, to show that unless these departments be so far connected and blended as to give to each a constitutional control over the others, the degree of separation which the maxim requires, as essential to a free government, can never in practice be duly maintained.
Page 304 - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia, to be free, sovereign and independent States; that he treats with them as such, and for himself, his heirs and successors, relinquishes all claims to the Government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.
Page 495 - That said rebel States shall be divided into military districts, and made subject to the military authority of the United States, as hereinafter prescribed, and for that purpose Virginia shall constitute the first district; North Carolina and South Carolina the second district; Georgia, Alabama, and Florida the third district; Mississippi and Arkansas the fourth district; and Louisiana and Texas the fifth district.
Page 526 - The parties belligerent in a public war are independent nations. But it is not necessary to, constitute war, that both parties should be acknowledged as independent nations or sovereign States. A war may exist where one of the belligerents claims sovereign rights as against the other.
Page 493 - The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity, and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.
Page 493 - Committee, that a national Government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme Legislative, Executive and Judiciary.