Handbook of the United States Political History for Readers and StudentsLothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, 1906 - 452 Seiten |
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... CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES 133 133 First and Second Sessions . 135 1789 to 1905 The Senate , its Functions , etc ... Act , February 3 , 1887 277 Why Electoral System Adopted 280 The Election of a President 282 Succession Act , 1886 ...
... CONGRESS OF THE UNITED STATES 133 133 First and Second Sessions . 135 1789 to 1905 The Senate , its Functions , etc ... Act , February 3 , 1887 277 Why Electoral System Adopted 280 The Election of a President 282 Succession Act , 1886 ...
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... act of Parliament , the port of Boston closed , and General Gage appointed governor of Massachusetts to see the law was executed . September 5 , eleven colonies formed themselves into a Congress ( see Index ) . 1775. Coercive measures ...
... act of Parliament , the port of Boston closed , and General Gage appointed governor of Massachusetts to see the law was executed . September 5 , eleven colonies formed themselves into a Congress ( see Index ) . 1775. Coercive measures ...
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... Act of Congress . September 15 , 1884. Civil government inaugurated . The first governor by presidential appointment ... act to provide a government for the territory of Hawaii enacted by the first session of the Fifty - sixth Congress ...
... Act of Congress . September 15 , 1884. Civil government inaugurated . The first governor by presidential appointment ... act to provide a government for the territory of Hawaii enacted by the first session of the Fifty - sixth Congress ...
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... Congress passed an Act , " Re- solved , That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States , by any particular State " ( pursuant to the recom- mendation of Congress of September 6 , 1780 ) , " shall be ...
... Congress passed an Act , " Re- solved , That the unappropriated lands that may be ceded or relinquished to the United States , by any particular State " ( pursuant to the recom- mendation of Congress of September 6 , 1780 ) , " shall be ...
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... act as a repre- sentative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the ... Congress , any three of whom be a quorum , and the members of the council ... Congress ; five of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as ...
... act as a repre- sentative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the ... Congress , any three of whom be a quorum , and the members of the council ... Congress ; five of whom Congress shall appoint and commission to serve as ...
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Seite 125 - Though, in reviewing the incidents of my administration, I am unconscious of intentional error, I am nevertheless too sensible of my defects not to think it probable that I may have committed many errors. Whatever they may be, I fervently beseech the Almighty to avert or mitigate the evils to which they may tend. I shall also carry with me the hope, that my country will never cease to view them with indulgence...
Seite 122 - Let it simply be asked, where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation desert the oaths which are the instruments of investigation in courts of justice ? And let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion.
Seite 118 - The name of AMERICAN, which belongs to you in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of patriotism, more than any appellation derived from local discriminations. With slight shades of difference, you have the same religion, manners, habits and political principles.
Seite 79 - ... 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...
Seite 414 - States may exercise the right to intervene for the preservation of Cuban independence, the maintenance of a government adequate for the protection of life, property, and individual liberty, and for discharging the obligations with respect to Cuba imposed by the treaty of Paris on the United States, now to be assumed and undertaken by the government of Cuba.
Seite 77 - States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Seite 117 - I have the consolation to believe, that, while choice and prudence invite me to quit the political scene, patriotism does not forbid it...
Seite 77 - United States in Congress assembled, for the defence of such State, or its trade ; nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any State, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the United States, in Congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such State ; but every State shall always keep up a well regulated and disciplined militia, sufficiently armed and accoutred...
Seite 78 - The united states in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states...
Seite 38 - The legislatures of those districts or new States, shall never interfere with the primary disposal of the soil by the United States in Congress assembled, nor with any regulations Congress may find necessary for securing the title in such soil to the bona 284 fide purchasers. No tax shall be imposed on lands the property of the United States; and, in no case, shall nonresident proprietors be taxed higher than residents.