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... established principles and rules of conduct embodied in our constitutions . It seems natural and proper to us that the conduct of government affecting substantial rights , and not depending upon questions of policy , should be passed ...
... established principles and rules of conduct embodied in our constitutions . It seems natural and proper to us that the conduct of government affecting substantial rights , and not depending upon questions of policy , should be passed ...
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... distinctive features of that composite state - system which was established by the Constitution of 1787. We must search deeper into American political life , and perhaps into the common political life of our Teutonic , I.
... distinctive features of that composite state - system which was established by the Constitution of 1787. We must search deeper into American political life , and perhaps into the common political life of our Teutonic , I.
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... establish such a form of govern- ment as , in their judgment , will best produce the happiness of the people , and ... established , to adopt such government as shall , in the opinion of the representatives of the people , best conduce ...
... establish such a form of govern- ment as , in their judgment , will best produce the happiness of the people , and ... established , to adopt such government as shall , in the opinion of the representatives of the people , best conduce ...
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... established doctrine of the United States , that their independence originated from , and commenced with , the declaration of Congress , on the 4th of July . 1776 ; and that no other period can be fixed on for its commencement ; and ...
... established doctrine of the United States , that their independence originated from , and commenced with , the declaration of Congress , on the 4th of July . 1776 ; and that no other period can be fixed on for its commencement ; and ...
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... established , as firmly as before : the states who delayed their ratification remained so bound , for they could by no act of their own , impair the rights of France and they were equally entitled to the effects of the treaty of peace ...
... established , as firmly as before : the states who delayed their ratification remained so bound , for they could by no act of their own , impair the rights of France and they were equally entitled to the effects of the treaty of peace ...
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Page 227 - All controversies concerning the private right of soil claimed under different grants of two or more states, whose jurisdictions as they may respect such lands, and the states which passed such grants are adjusted, the said grants or either of them being at the 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...
Page 44 - ... the United States, in Congress assembled. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace, nor enter into any treaties or alliances, nor coin money, nor...
Page 170 - In the government of this Commonwealth, the legislative department shall never exercise the executive and judicial powers, or either of them: the executive shall never exercise the legislative and judicial powers, or either of them: the judicial shall never exercise the legislative and executive powers, or either of them : to the end it may be a government of laws and not of men.
Page 401 - That a final judgment or decree in any suit, in the highest court of law or equity of a State in which a decision in the suit could be had, where is drawn in question the validity of a treaty or statute of, or an authority exercised under the United States, and the decision is against their validity...
Page 170 - When the legislative and executive powers are united in the same person, or in the same body of magistrates, there can be no liberty ; because apprehensions may arise, lest the same monarch or senate should enact tyrannical laws, to execute them in a tyrannical manner.
Page 58 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the Articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States render the Federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of Government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 519 - And whenever any of the said States shall have sixty thousand free inhabitants therein such State shall be admitted by its delegates into the Congress of the United States on an equal footing with the original states in all respects whatever, and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government.
Page 498 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations as in their judgment require secresy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Page 539 - 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 282 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.