The Constitutional Text-book: A Practical and Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States, and of Portions of the Public and Administrative Law of the Federal Government : Designed Chiefly for the Use of Schools, Academies, and CollegesSower, Barnes & Potts, 1855 - 324 páginas |
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... liberty , of free in- quiry , and of opposition to the prerogatives of the crown and to an established church , which such excitement had produced . Schools and colleges were founded , and re- ligion , education , and printing ...
... liberty , of free in- quiry , and of opposition to the prerogatives of the crown and to an established church , which such excitement had produced . Schools and colleges were founded , and re- ligion , education , and printing ...
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... Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity , do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America . ARTICLE . I. SECTION . 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States ...
... Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity , do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America . ARTICLE . I. SECTION . 1. All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States ...
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... liberty to preserve the rest . The mag- nitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circum- stance as on the object to be obtained . It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights ...
... liberty to preserve the rest . The mag- nitude of the sacrifice must depend as well on situation and circum- stance as on the object to be obtained . It is at all times difficult to draw with precision the line between those rights ...
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... liberty , or property , without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use , without just compensation . ( ARTICLE VI . ) In all criminal prosecutions , the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and ...
... liberty , or property , without due process of law ; nor shall private property be taken for public use , without just compensation . ( ARTICLE VI . ) In all criminal prosecutions , the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and ...
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... liberty to ourselves and our Posterity , do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America . " § 60. This part of the Constitution has been termed the Preamble , though it was not so named by its framers . A ...
... liberty to ourselves and our Posterity , do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America . " § 60. This part of the Constitution has been termed the Preamble , though it was not so named by its framers . A ...
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Página 282 - 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.
Página 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...
Página 28 - 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.
Página 271 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members ; and no person shall be capable of being a 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 285 - Liberty itself will find in such a government, with powers properly distributed and adjusted, its surest guardian. It is, indeed, little else than a name, where the government is too feeble to withstand the enterprises of faction, to confine each member of the society within the limits prescribed by the laws, and to maintain all in the secure and tranquil enjoyment of the rights of person and property.
Página 34 - ... §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 of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Página 292 - 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 pretended patriotism ; this hope will be a full recompense for the solicitude for your welfare, by which they have been dictated.
Página 31 - 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...