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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... chosen Commissioner to the Court of Versailles . On his return he was chosen a member of the Convention called to prepare a form of government for Massachusetts . In September , 1779 , he was ap- pointed Minister Plenipotentiary to ...
... chosen Commissioner to the Court of Versailles . On his return he was chosen a member of the Convention called to prepare a form of government for Massachusetts . In September , 1779 , he was ap- pointed Minister Plenipotentiary to ...
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... chosen President of the United States in 1825— serving one term . In 1831 he was elected a Representative in Con- gress , and continued in that posi- tion until his death , which occurred in the Speaker's room , two days after falling ...
... chosen President of the United States in 1825— serving one term . In 1831 he was elected a Representative in Con- gress , and continued in that posi- tion until his death , which occurred in the Speaker's room , two days after falling ...
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... chosen a Representative in Congress , from Illinois , from 1853 to 1855 , and was re - elected to the Thirty - fourth Congress . He was also chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives for the Thirty - fifth Congress , which position ...
... chosen a Representative in Congress , from Illinois , from 1853 to 1855 , and was re - elected to the Thirty - fourth Congress . He was also chosen Clerk of the House of Representatives for the Thirty - fifth Congress , which position ...
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... chosen a Re- presentative to the Thirty - fifth Con- gress . He is a member of the Com- mittees on Expenditures in the State Department , and on Private Land Claims . AYCRIGG , JOHN B. He was born in New York , and was elected a ...
... chosen a Re- presentative to the Thirty - fifth Con- gress . He is a member of the Com- mittees on Expenditures in the State Department , and on Private Land Claims . AYCRIGG , JOHN B. He was born in New York , and was elected a ...
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... chosen a member of the Legislature . He originated the plan of the University of Georgia , drew up the charter , and persuaded the Assembly to adopt it , and was for some time its president . was a member of the Continental Congress ...
... chosen a member of the Legislature . He originated the plan of the University of Georgia , drew up the charter , and persuaded the Assembly to adopt it , and was for some time its president . was a member of the Continental Congress ...
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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.