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... legislative , the executive , and the judicial departments . This is a distribution according to the kind of power to be exercised . Thus , in order to understand how this nation is governed , one must give attention to both of these ...
... legislative , the executive , and the judicial departments . This is a distribution according to the kind of power to be exercised . Thus , in order to understand how this nation is governed , one must give attention to both of these ...
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... legislative assemblies , and these assemblies controlled the public funds and directed their expenditure . In each colony there was a small body , called the council , the assistants , or the magistrates , which in relation to the ...
... legislative assemblies , and these assemblies controlled the public funds and directed their expenditure . In each colony there was a small body , called the council , the assistants , or the magistrates , which in relation to the ...
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... legislative and judicial power . The most important single officer of the county was the sheriff . At first he was elected by the people , but later he was appointed by the king . He was the agent of the central government in the county ...
... legislative and judicial power . The most important single officer of the county was the sheriff . At first he was elected by the people , but later he was appointed by the king . He was the agent of the central government in the county ...
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... legislative , and executive , " under the permanent authority of the resolutions and customs of the Fatherland . The West India Company established certain proprietors called " Patroons . " Each " Patroon " received a grant of land ...
... legislative , and executive , " under the permanent authority of the resolutions and customs of the Fatherland . The West India Company established certain proprietors called " Patroons . " Each " Patroon " received a grant of land ...
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... legislative power . The first Court of Assistants organized in New England was formed at Charlestown , in Massachusetts , in 1630. Seven members were present , which number , according to the charter , was necessary in the beginning to ...
... legislative power . The first Court of Assistants organized in New England was formed at Charlestown , in Massachusetts , in 1630. Seven members were present , which number , according to the charter , was necessary in the beginning to ...
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Page 379 - ... ..of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated.. ..of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace... .appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas...
Page 392 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 375 - 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.
Page 388 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation, or other direct tax, shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Page 390 - 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...
Page 382 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Page 380 - ... office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee, to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated...
Page 377 - ... delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States, for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 391 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 387 - 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.