The Science of Government in Connection with American InstitutionsSheldon & Company, 1869 - 295 Seiten |
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... Independent says : " There is no more important study than the study of the institutions of our own country , and there is no book on the subject so clear , comprehensive and complete in it . self as the volume before us . " Enter ...
... Independent says : " There is no more important study than the study of the institutions of our own country , and there is no book on the subject so clear , comprehensive and complete in it . self as the volume before us . " Enter ...
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... independent of each other . They were united only in a common relation to the crown and mother country . Still , they were in many respects one people , and prepared to be come so in all respects . Being fellow - subjects of the king ...
... independent of each other . They were united only in a common relation to the crown and mother country . Still , they were in many respects one people , and prepared to be come so in all respects . Being fellow - subjects of the king ...
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... independent of Great Britain . On the 11th day of June , 1776 , the day on which the committee for preparing the Declaration of Independ- ence was appointed , Congress appointed a committee to prepare and digest a form of Confederation ...
... independent of Great Britain . On the 11th day of June , 1776 , the day on which the committee for preparing the Declaration of Independ- ence was appointed , Congress appointed a committee to prepare and digest a form of Confederation ...
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... independent nation . This could not be , if the Constitution and laws of the United States were to be " the supreme law of the land . " They saw in the President of the United States a disguised king ; and this would probably have pre ...
... independent nation . This could not be , if the Constitution and laws of the United States were to be " the supreme law of the land . " They saw in the President of the United States a disguised king ; and this would probably have pre ...
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... independent nation . South Carolina attempted to practise nullification in 1832 , and nearly all the South- ern States attempted to secede in 1860 . The Constitution is not a league or compact be- tween sovereign States . It is an ...
... independent nation . South Carolina attempted to practise nullification in 1832 , and nearly all the South- ern States attempted to secede in 1860 . The Constitution is not a league or compact be- tween sovereign States . It is an ...
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Seite 255 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Seite 255 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Seite 65 - I have lived, sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth, THAT GOD GOVERNS IN THE AFFAIRS OF MEN. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without His aid ? "We have been assured, sir, in the sacred writings, that except the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it.
Seite 248 - Person. (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.
Seite 247 - To exercise exclusive legislation, in all cases whatsoever, over such district (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of congress, become the seat of government of the United States...
Seite 47 - Regulating the trade and managing all affairs with the Indians, not members of any of the States ; provided that the legislative right of any State, within its own limits, be not infringed or violated...
Seite 248 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title,...
Seite 243 - Trust or Profit under the United States: but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law.
Seite 246 - 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...
Seite 55 - States, to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the federal government adequate to the exigencies of the Union; and to report such an act for that purpose to the United States in Congress assembled, as, when agreed to by them, and afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every state, will effectually provide for the same.