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Page 91
... president alone , but by Congress only , need hardly be mentioned . It has been necessary to mention here the supremacy of the law as a peculiar guarantee of personal liberty . We shall return to the subject , and consider it in its ...
... president alone , but by Congress only , need hardly be mentioned . It has been necessary to mention here the supremacy of the law as a peculiar guarantee of personal liberty . We shall return to the subject , and consider it in its ...
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... president or the king should have ordered it , or the offending person should be a soldier obeying his com- mander . It is a stern law , but it is a sacred principle , and it has worked well . 20 For instance , in the scarcity of grain ...
... president or the king should have ordered it , or the offending person should be a soldier obeying his com- mander . It is a stern law , but it is a sacred principle , and it has worked well . 20 For instance , in the scarcity of grain ...
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... house of representatives . The president is not included in the term . Par . liament , on the other hand , means commons , lords , and king . Practically be passed by Congress like any other law . A AND SELF - GOVERNMENT . 117.
... house of representatives . The president is not included in the term . Par . liament , on the other hand , means commons , lords , and king . Practically be passed by Congress like any other law . A AND SELF - GOVERNMENT . 117.
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... president has the veto power , of which he makes occasional use , while the king of England has not made any use of it for about a century . The English administration would resign before it would become necessary , in their eyes , to ...
... president has the veto power , of which he makes occasional use , while the king of England has not made any use of it for about a century . The English administration would resign before it would become necessary , in their eyes , to ...
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... presidents , indeed , have done that for which many citizens believed they had no warrant in the law - for instance , when General Jackson removed the public deposits from the bank of the United States , but the doubt consisted in the ...
... presidents , indeed , have done that for which many citizens believed they had no warrant in the law - for instance , when General Jackson removed the public deposits from the bank of the United States , but the doubt consisted in the ...
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Page 454 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states ; fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States; regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians not members of any of the states ; provided that the legislative right of any state within its own limits be not infringed or violated...
Page 453 - ... same time claimed to have originated antecedent to such settlement of jurisdiction, shall, on the petition of either party to the Congress of the United States, be finally determined, as near as may be, in the same manner as is before prescribed for deciding disputes respecting territorial jurisdiction between different states.
Page 467 - 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...
Page 452 - ... 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. AET. IX. The United States in congress assembled shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war...
Page 467 - 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 449 - If any person, guilty of or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor, in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall, upon demand of the Governor, or executive power of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Page 446 - He is, at this time, transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to complete the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun, with circumstances of cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the head of a civilized nation.
Page 459 - Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. SECTION 4. >The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the places of chusing Senators.
Page 449 - Each state retains its sovereignty, freedom and independence, and every power, jurisdiction and right, which is not by this confederation expressly delegated to the United States, in congress assembled.
Page 439 - By levying money for and to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative, for other time and in other manner than the same was granted by Parliament.