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Burke Aaron Hinsdale. a new conservative party called the Tories , embracing a majority of the nobility and nearly all the clergy of the Established Church , which was devoted to maintaining in full vigor the hereditary parts of the ...
Burke Aaron Hinsdale. a new conservative party called the Tories , embracing a majority of the nobility and nearly all the clergy of the Established Church , which was devoted to maintaining in full vigor the hereditary parts of the ...
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... majority of its delegates present when the vote was given . If the delegates were evenly divided , the State lost its vote . No question except to adjourn could be carried without a majority of all the States , and the most important ...
... majority of its delegates present when the vote was given . If the delegates were evenly divided , the State lost its vote . No question except to adjourn could be carried without a majority of all the States , and the most important ...
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... majority of the States was not present until the 25th , when an organization was effected . Washington was unani- mously chosen President and William Jackson Secretary . 172. Groups of Questions . - When the Convention came to debate ...
... majority of the States was not present until the 25th , when an organization was effected . Washington was unani- mously chosen President and William Jackson Secretary . 172. Groups of Questions . - When the Convention came to debate ...
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... been imagined . The large States had , through all the preliminary debates , a majority of six to five , large enough to insure a general run of success in nationalizing the new government , but not so 98 THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT .
... been imagined . The large States had , through all the preliminary debates , a majority of six to five , large enough to insure a general run of success in nationalizing the new government , but not so 98 THE AMERICAN GOVERNMENT .
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... majority in Congress . It was also a part of this arrangement that slaves escaping from one State into another should be given up to their masters on demand . 196. Stages of Progress . - Few of these need be here reported . On July 24 ...
... majority in Congress . It was also a part of this arrangement that slaves escaping from one State into another should be given up to their masters on demand . 196. Stages of Progress . - Few of these need be here reported . On July 24 ...
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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.