The Constitutional Text Book: A Practical and Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United StatesG.W. Childs, 1865 - 384 Seiten |
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... tives , open all the Certificates , and the Votes shall then be counted . The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President , if such Number be a Ma- jority of the whole Number of Electors appointed ; and if there be ...
... tives , open all the Certificates , and the Votes shall then be counted . The Person having the greatest Number of Votes shall be the President , if such Number be a Ma- jority of the whole Number of Electors appointed ; and if there be ...
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... tives consequently commenced at that time , and continued for two years . On the fourth day of March , therefore , in every other year , there is said to be a new Congress . * As in public documents and official proceedings , the ...
... tives consequently commenced at that time , and continued for two years . On the fourth day of March , therefore , in every other year , there is said to be a new Congress . * As in public documents and official proceedings , the ...
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... tives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand , but each state shall have at Least one Representative ; and until such enumeration shall be made , the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three , Massachusetts eight ...
... tives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand , but each state shall have at Least one Representative ; and until such enumeration shall be made , the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three , Massachusetts eight ...
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... tives ; California , Delaware , and Florida each , returned in the census as having a population less than the ratio , are , nevertheless , by the clause we are now considering , each entitled to one representative , which increases the ...
... tives ; California , Delaware , and Florida each , returned in the census as having a population less than the ratio , are , nevertheless , by the clause we are now considering , each entitled to one representative , which increases the ...
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... tives . The provision in the Constitution that each senator shall have one vote , was intended to introduce a different mode of voting . § 103. If all the States , or a majority of them , should re- fuse to elect senators , the ...
... tives . The provision in the Constitution that each senator shall have one vote , was intended to introduce a different mode of voting . § 103. If all the States , or a majority of them , should re- fuse to elect senators , the ...
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Seite 273 - ... ..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...
Seite 281 - ... it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness; that you should cherish a cordial, habitual, and immovable attachment to it; accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned...
Seite 274 - ... absent or refusing ; and the judgment and sentence of the court, to be appointed in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive ; and if any of the parties shall refuse to submit to the...
Seite 42 - 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 Executive...
Seite 69 - When vacancies happen in the Representation from any State, the Executive Authority thereof shall issue Writs of Election to fill such Vacancies. The House of Representatives shall chuse their Speaker and other Officers ; and shall have the sole Power of Impeachment.
Seite 35 - State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress : but no Senator or Representative, or. Person holding an Office of Trust • or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector. 3 ["The electors shall meet in their respective States, and vote by ballot for two Persons, of whom one at least shall not be an Inhabitant of the same...
Seite 292 - I dare not hope they will make the strong and lasting impression I could wish — that they will control the usual current of the passions, or prevent our nation from running the course which has hitherto marked the destiny of nations: but ,if I may even flatter myself, that they may be productive of some partial benefit, some occasional good, that they may now and then recur to moderate the fury of party spirit, to warn against the mischiefs of foreign intrigue, to guard against the impostures of...
Seite 291 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice?
Seite 276 - 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 regulate the value thereof, nor ascertain the sums and expenses necessary for the defense and welfare of the United States...
Seite 269 - NEW YORK William Floyd Philip Livingston Francis Lewis Lewis Morris NEW JERSEY Richard Stockton John Witherspoon Francis Hopkinson John Hart Abraham Clark PENNSYLVANIA Robert Morris Benjamin Rush Benjamin...