The Constitutions of the Several States of the Union and United States: Including the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation : Taken from Authentic Documents |
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... House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states ; and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the ...
... House of Representatives shall be composed of members chosen every second year by the people of the several states ; and the electors in each state shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the ...
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... 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 place of choosing senators . 2. The Congress shall assemble ...
... 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 place of choosing senators . 2. The Congress shall assemble ...
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... Houses , and in going to or returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either House , they shall not be questioned in any other place . 2. No senator or representative shall , during the time for which he was elected , be ...
... Houses , and in going to or returning from the same ; and for any speech or debate in either House , they shall not be questioned in any other place . 2. No senator or representative shall , during the time for which he was elected , be ...
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... representatives to which the state may be entitled in Congress ; but no senator or representative , or person ... House of Representatives , open all the certificates , and the votes shall then be counted . The person hav- ing the ...
... representatives to which the state may be entitled in Congress ; but no senator or representative , or person ... House of Representatives , open all the certificates , and the votes shall then be counted . The person hav- ing the ...
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... House of Representatives , open all the certificates , and the votes shall then be counted ; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the Pres- ident , if such number be a majority of the whole number of ...
... House of Representatives , open all the certificates , and the votes shall then be counted ; the person having the greatest number of votes for President shall be the Pres- ident , if such number be a majority of the whole number of ...
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adjourn annually appointed ARTICLE ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION assembly district Attorney-General authority ballot bill chosen circuit courts citizen clerk commissions commonwealth compensation Congress consent continue in office convicted Court of Chancery debt declared deem Delegates direct dollars duties eligible entitled established executive exercise expiration grant habeas corpus hereafter hold his office hold their offices House of Representatives impeachment inhabitants judges judicial jurisdiction jury justices land lature Legislature liberty lieutenant governor Lieutenant-Governor majority manner members elected ment militia Monday number of votes oath or affirmation offence office of Governor peace person prescribed by law President privileges prosecutions provided by law punishment qualified electors qualified voters removal from office returns Secretary Senate session sheriff Supreme Court term therein thereof thousand eight hundred tion town treason Treasurer trial trial by jury two-thirds United unless vacancy vested writs writs of election yeas and nays
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Page 9 - Court. 10. To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations. 11. To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water. 12. To raise and support armies ; but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years. 13. To provide and maintain a navy.
Page v - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State ; and the Union shall be perpetual. Nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to, in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Page i - The united states in congress assembled, shall have the sole and exclusive right and power of determining on peace and war, except in the cases mentioned in the sixth article — of sending and receiving ambassadors — entering into treaties and alliances, provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners, as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation...
Page iv - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; 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 7 - Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to. or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King, prince or state ; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or. title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state ; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant any title of nobility....
Page i - ... party shall neglect to attend at the day appointed, without showing reasons, which congress shall judge sufficient, or being present shall refuse to strike, the congress shall proceed to nominate three persons out of each state, and the secretary of congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing ; and the judgment and...
Page 242 - That religion, or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and therefore all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practise Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other.
Page 5 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Page 8 - United States in Congress assembled can be consulted ; nor shall any State grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the United States in Congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state, and the subjects thereof, against which war has been so declared, and under such regulations as shall be established by the United States in Congress assembled, unless such State be infested by pirates, in which case...
Page 9 - 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...