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... trade concessions needed by the United. During the Confederation period , domestic and foreign commerce languished . Scene at Philadelphia near the Arch Street Ferry . City Tavern , where many of the delegates to the. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ...
... trade concessions needed by the United. During the Confederation period , domestic and foreign commerce languished . Scene at Philadelphia near the Arch Street Ferry . City Tavern , where many of the delegates to the. HISTORICAL BACKGROUND ...
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... streets and spacious lots had in some sections given way to narrow alleys and crowded houses . Sanitation problems plagued poor residents . Insects bred in the God free , Sovellign and Independent : To the Monomeble 28 HISTORICAL ...
... streets and spacious lots had in some sections given way to narrow alleys and crowded houses . Sanitation problems plagued poor residents . Insects bred in the God free , Sovellign and Independent : To the Monomeble 28 HISTORICAL ...
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... street hawkers , church bells , and the " thundering of Coaches , Chariots , Chaises , Waggons , Drays , and the ... streets to members of the watch , who hourly until dawn called out the time and weather . Blinds protected the ...
... street hawkers , church bells , and the " thundering of Coaches , Chariots , Chaises , Waggons , Drays , and the ... streets to members of the watch , who hourly until dawn called out the time and weather . Blinds protected the ...
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... Street . The Second Presbyterian Church looms over the scene . arrived late , left early , or were temporarily absent for various lengths of time . The 55 men , 39 of whom subscribed to the Constitution , were as follows ...
... Street . The Second Presbyterian Church looms over the scene . arrived late , left early , or were temporarily absent for various lengths of time . The 55 men , 39 of whom subscribed to the Constitution , were as follows ...
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... Street , where Washington stayed during the Convention and later as President . In 1787 he had originally planned to reside at Mrs. House's rooming place , but Morris persuaded him to change his mind . Thursday arrived the ship ...
... Street , where Washington stayed during the Convention and later as President . In 1787 he had originally planned to reside at Mrs. House's rooming place , but Morris persuaded him to change his mind . Thursday arrived the ship ...
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Page 314 - SECTION 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 309 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION. 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion; and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 316 - President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office, the Vice President shall immediately assume the powers and duties of the office as Acting President. Thereafter, when the President transmits to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives his written declaration that no inability exists, he shall resume the powers and duties of his office...
Page 108 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 308 - No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due. SECTION. 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more...
Page 44 - Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Page 88 - often and often in the course of the session, and the vicissitudes of my hopes and fears as to its issue, looked at that behind the president without being able to tell whether it was rising or setting. But now at length I have the happiness to know that it is a rising and not a setting sun.
Page 314 - January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Page 306 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 307 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...