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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... Province and the United States ( 13. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir F. Pollock and Sir W. Follett , on the neces- sity of the concurrence of the Council of a Colony in granting leave of absence to Public Officers .. .. .. .. 2 23 73 .. 74 ...
... Province and the United States ( 13. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir F. Pollock and Sir W. Follett , on the neces- sity of the concurrence of the Council of a Colony in granting leave of absence to Public Officers .. .. .. .. 2 23 73 .. 74 ...
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... Province of Maine .. .. PAGE .. 130 .. 133 ( 3. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir Dudley Ryder and Sir William Murray , on the King's right to certain waste lands in New Hampshire .. ( 4. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir Philip Yorke and Sir ...
... Province of Maine .. .. PAGE .. 130 .. 133 ( 3. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir Dudley Ryder and Sir William Murray , on the King's right to certain waste lands in New Hampshire .. ( 4. ) Of the Law Officers , Sir Philip Yorke and Sir ...
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... province in particular , are not in force there , unless they have been introduced and declared to be laws , by some Acts of Assembly of the province , or have been received there by long uninterrupted usage or practice , which may ...
... province in particular , are not in force there , unless they have been introduced and declared to be laws , by some Acts of Assembly of the province , or have been received there by long uninterrupted usage or practice , which may ...
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... province ? And we are of opinion , first , that it doth not ; for that the Act is expressly restrained to the counterfeiting of foreign coin current within this realm , of which Nova Scotia is no part . Secondly , we are of opinion that ...
... province ? And we are of opinion , first , that it doth not ; for that the Act is expressly restrained to the counterfeiting of foreign coin current within this realm , of which Nova Scotia is no part . Secondly , we are of opinion that ...
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... supposed to have on the laws previously enacted in that province , and requesting us to report our opinion on the following questions : -First , whether under the statute 1 8 CASES AND OPINIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW .
... supposed to have on the laws previously enacted in that province , and requesting us to report our opinion on the following questions : -First , whether under the statute 1 8 CASES AND OPINIONS ON CONSTITUTIONAL LAW .
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Page 133 - The Council established at Plymouth in the County of Devon, for the Planting, ruling, ordering and Governing of New England in America" and to them and their Successors grants all the lands, &c., Viz.
Page 513 - States provides that the United States shall guarantee to every state in the Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on the application of the legislature or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violen«1.
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.
Page 288 - That there shall be no future confiscations made, nor any prosecutions commenced against any person or persons, for or by reason of the part which he or they may have taken in the present war; and that no person shall on that account suffer any future loss or damage, either in his person, liberty, or property...
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.