Dictionary of the United States Congress: Containing Biographical Sketches of Its Members from the Foundation of the Government ; with an Appendixauthor, 1859 - 693 páginas |
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... Constitution . The commissioners to lay out a town on the Delaware reported their pro- ceedings to Congress , but no further steps were taken to carry the resolution into effect . When the bonds of union were drawn closer by the ...
... Constitution . The commissioners to lay out a town on the Delaware reported their pro- ceedings to Congress , but no further steps were taken to carry the resolution into effect . When the bonds of union were drawn closer by the ...
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... constitutional sphere - a tribute at once to the moderation of the Senate , and another proof to thoughtful men of the comprehensive wisdom with which the framers of the Constitution secured essential principles without inconveniently ...
... constitutional sphere - a tribute at once to the moderation of the Senate , and another proof to thoughtful men of the comprehensive wisdom with which the framers of the Constitution secured essential principles without inconveniently ...
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... Constitution , the Senate was composed of the representatives of eleven States , containing three million people . On the 6th of December , 1819 , when the Senate met for the first time in this room , it was composed of the ...
... Constitution , the Senate was composed of the representatives of eleven States , containing three million people . On the 6th of December , 1819 , when the Senate met for the first time in this room , it was composed of the ...
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... Constitution , which has survived peace and war , prosperity and adversity ; this double scheme of Government , State and Federal , so peculiar and so little understood by other Powers , yet which protects the earnings of industry , and ...
... Constitution , which has survived peace and war , prosperity and adversity ; this double scheme of Government , State and Federal , so peculiar and so little understood by other Powers , yet which protects the earnings of industry , and ...
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... constitutional liberty , guarded by wisdom and virtue , unlike material elements , do not decay . Let us devoutly trust that another Senate , in another age , shall bear to a new and larger chamber this Constitution , vigorous and ...
... constitutional liberty , guarded by wisdom and virtue , unlike material elements , do not decay . Let us devoutly trust that another Senate , in another age , shall bear to a new and larger chamber this Constitution , vigorous and ...
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Página 113 - The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason, but no Attainder of Treason shall work Corruption of Blood or Forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted. ARTICLE IV. SECTION 1. Full Faith and Credit shall be given in each State to the Public Acts, Records, and judicial Proceedings of every other State.
Página 107 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by law make or alter such regulations, except as to th.e places of choosing senators.
Página 120 - THE Conventions of a number of the States, having at the time of their adopting the Constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Página 106 - No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that state for which he shall be chosen. The Vice-President of the United States shall be president of the senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided.
Página 120 - After the first enumeration required by the first Article of the Constitution, there shall be one Representative for every thirty thousand, until the number...
Página 116 - Delaware, December 7, 1787; Pennsylvania. December 12, 1787; New Jersey, December 18, 1787; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts. February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788; South Carolina, May 23, 1788; New Hampshire, June 21, 1788; Virginia, June 26, 1788; and New York, July 26, 1788.
Página 120 - ARTICLES IN ADDITION TO, AND AMENDMENT OF, THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, PROPOSED BY CONGRESS, AND RATIFIED BY THE LEGISLATURES OF THE SEVERAL STATES PURSUANT TO THE FIFTH ARTICLE OF THE ORIGINAL CONSTITUTION : Article I.
Página 114 - ... states concerned, as well as of the congress. 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. SECT. 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 ;...
Página 120 - RESOLVED, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled, two-thirds of both Houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the Constitution of the United States...
Página 263 - This committee consisted of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert R. Livingston.