Annual Report of the American Historical Association

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897

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Page
93
Election from candidates designated by the States
98
Election of President and VicePresident by the voters
104
Discussion of schemes for Presidential Election
111
Exclusion of electors from appointment by the President
122
Compensation of the President
129
Election of executive officials
141
Punishment of official misconduct
142
CHAPTER IV
144
Choice of judges
146
Judges to be ineligible to other offices
147
Impeachment
149
Age limit
151
Compensation of judges
153
Jurisdiction of the court
154
Suits against States
156
Other tribunals for the settlement of disputes between the States and the General Government
159
Summary of the propositions relative to the judiciary
163
PROPOSED AMENDMENTS AFFECTING THE POWERS OF THE GOVERNMENT 79 Division of powers between the States and the General Gov...
165
Effect of express prohibition on Congress
166
Suits against States
167
Performance of national functions by the States
169
Guaranty of the State governments
170
Acknowledgement of secession
172
Limitations on secession
173
Limitations on the States by the Reconstruction Amend ments
175
Exclusive power of Congress over the seat of government and other sites
176
Abridging territory
177
Annexation of territory
178
Admission of new States
180
Representation of the Territories and the District of Columbia in Congress
181
Relation of the United States with individuals
182
The first ten amendments
183
Doctrinaire propositions on the rights of man
185
Titles of nobility
186
Duelling
189
Marriage and divorce
190
Protection of personal liberty
192
Slavery propositions before 1860
193
Slavery propositions in 186061
194
Prohibition or limitation on abolition
195
Fugitive slaves
198
Slavery in the Territories
201
Admission of States
202
Acquirement of new territory
203
The District of Columbia and places under Federal juris diction
204
Right of transit with slaves
205
Slave insurrections and conspiracies
206
The foreign slave trade
208
Interstate slave trade and introduction of free negroes
209
The question of abolition
210
Disability of participants in the rebellion
223
Restrictions on the suffrage
226
Extension of the suffrage to negroes
227
The fifteenth amendment
229
Miscellaneous propositions on the suffrage since the fifteenth amendment
235
Suffrage of the Chinese
237
Present condition of the suffrage
239
Early objections 210
240
Requisitions
242
Direct taxes
243
Taxation of corporations by States
245
Export duties
246
Payment of the Confederate debt
247
Claims for damages arising out of the civil war
248
Payment of the national debt 219
249
Distribution of the surplus
250
Protective tariffs
251
Prohibition of special legislation
252
Status of financial legislation
253
Commercial power
254
National banks
255
Issuing of bank notes
257
Legaltender notes
258
Internal improvements
260
Navigation laws and embargoes
263
Bankruptcy laws
265
The status of commercial powers
266
Foreign affairs
267
Declaration of war
269
The army
270
Military pensions
271
Prohibition of polygamy
272
Protection to labor
273
Education
274
The States to provide free public schools
275
Religion
277
Summary of amendments on the powers of the Government
279
CHAPTER VI
281
Proposed amendments in Congress
284
Ratification by conventions
286
Regulation of the ratification by the legislature
287
Propositions to change the majorities required by Article V
292
Ratification by popular vote
293
What constitutes twothirds majority under Article V
295
Is the signature of the governor essential to an amend ment to the Federal Constitution approved by the legis lature of the State
297
What constitutes threefourths of the States
298
Can a State reconsider its action upon an amendment
299
The difficulties of amendment
300
APPENDIX Calendar and bibliography of proposed amendments
306
Apportionment of Representatives
307

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Seite 196 - No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.
Seite 211 - ... time recommend that all citizens of the United States who shall have remained loyal thereto throughout the rebellion shall (upon the restoration of the constitutional relation between the United States and their respective States and people, if that relation shall have been suspended or disturbed) be compensated for all losses by acts of the United States, including the loss of slaves.
Seite 186 - Wherefore, whenever the ends of Government are perverted, and public liberty manifestly endangered, and all other means of redress are ineffectual, the People may, and of right ought, to reform the old, or establish a new Government : the doctrine of non-resistance against arbitrary power and oppression is absurd, slavish and destructive of the good and happiness of mankind.
Seite 242 - The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imports and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States.
Seite 187 - If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honor, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept or retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
Seite 289 - The guarantee by Congress of equal suffrage to all loyal men at the South was demanded by every consideration of public safety, of gratitude, and of justice, and must be maintained ; while the question of suffrage in all the loyal States properly belongs to the people of those States.
Seite 145 - That the supreme court of the United States shall consist of a chief justice and five associate justices...
Seite 220 - The Congress shall have power to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper to secure to the citizens of each State all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States, and to all persons in the several States equal protection in the rights of life, liberty, and property.
Seite 171 - Article IV, section 4, of the Constitution, which provides that "The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government...
Seite 185 - That Government is instituted and ought to be exercised for the benefit of the people ; which consists in the enjoyment of life and liberty, with the right of acquiring and using property, and generally of pursuing and obtaining happiness and safety.

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