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... President and Vice - President 251-256 CHAPTER XXX . - The Failure of the Electoral Plan ( vii )
... President and Vice - President 251-256 CHAPTER XXX . - The Failure of the Electoral Plan ( vii )
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... President and Vice - President are elected by the people voting by States ; the Constitution of the Government says they are elected by electors appointed as the several State Legislatures may direct . Our caucus system is a part of the ...
... President and Vice - President are elected by the people voting by States ; the Constitution of the Government says they are elected by electors appointed as the several State Legislatures may direct . Our caucus system is a part of the ...
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... principal questions there were many minor ones that fall into the same group , as : How shall the President and Vice - President be chosen ? What shall be their duties ? and , How shall the Judiciary be organized ? 181. Powers of the ...
... principal questions there were many minor ones that fall into the same group , as : How shall the President and Vice - President be chosen ? What shall be their duties ? and , How shall the Judiciary be organized ? 181. Powers of the ...
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... President and John Adams Vice - President , and Mr. Langdon so an- nounced . 222 . Washington Inaugurated . - Messengers were at once sent to the President and Vice - President elect , con- veying official information of their election ...
... President and John Adams Vice - President , and Mr. Langdon so an- nounced . 222 . Washington Inaugurated . - Messengers were at once sent to the President and Vice - President elect , con- veying official information of their election ...
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... Vice - President was the lieutenant - gover- nor reproduced . The independent judiciary , and the whole judicial system in its large features , was immediately suggested by the States . These are a few of the many interesting analogies ...
... Vice - President was the lieutenant - gover- nor reproduced . The independent judiciary , and the whole judicial system in its large features , was immediately suggested by the States . These are a few of the many interesting analogies ...
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Page 460 - ... men, or should raise a smaller number than its quota, and that any other state should raise a greater number of men than the quota thereof, such extra number shall be raised, officered...
Page 121 - We admit, as all must admit, that the powers of the government are limited, and that its limits are not to be transcended. But we think the sound construction of the Constitution must allow to the national legislature that discretion, with respect to the means by which the powers it confers are to be carried into execution, which will enable that body to perform the high duties assigned to it, in I the manner most beneficial to the people.
Page 77 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other, against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade or any other pretence whatever...
Page 469 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 457 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall, from time to time, direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several states, within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 460 - States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same...
Page 464 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 465 - States: 3. To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes: 4. To establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States: 5. To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures: 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States: 7.
Page 457 - ... appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Page 239 - A bill of attainder is a legislative Act, which inflicts punishment without a judicial trial. If the punishment be less than death, the Act is termed a bill of pains and penalties.