Declaration of Independence ... with the Names, Places of Residence, &c. of the Signers. Constitution of the United States ...: Also, Address of George Washington ... on Declining Being Considered a Candidate for Their Future Suffrages. September 17, 1796A.F. Robinson, 1833 - 43 páginas |
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... thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies . 5. The house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers , and shall have the sole pow- er of impeachment . SECTION 3 . 1. The senate of the United ...
... thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies . 5. The house of representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers , and shall have the sole pow- er of impeachment . SECTION 3 . 1. The senate of the United ...
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... thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature , which shall then fill such vacancies . 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years , and been nine years a ...
... thereof may make temporary appointments until the next meeting of the legislature , which shall then fill such vacancies . 3. No person shall be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years , and been nine years a ...
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... thereof , and of foreign coin , and fix the standard of weights and mea- sures . 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States . 7. To establish post offices and post roads . 8 ...
... thereof , and of foreign coin , and fix the standard of weights and mea- sures . 6. To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States . 7. To establish post offices and post roads . 8 ...
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... thereof . SECTION 9 . 1. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to ad- mit , shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight ; but ...
... thereof . SECTION 9 . 1. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the States now existing shall think proper to ad- mit , shall not be prohibited by the congress prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight ; but ...
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... thereof may direct , a number of electors , equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the congress ; but no senator or representative , or person holding an office of trust or profit ...
... thereof may direct , a number of electors , equal to the whole number of senators and representatives to which the state may be entitled in the congress ; but no senator or representative , or person holding an office of trust or profit ...
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A. F. ROBINSON ADDRESS OF GEORGE adjourn ALPHEUS FELCH AMERICA THE TWELFTH April 17 ARTICLE ARTICLE III ballot bill bill of attainder citizens common CONGRESS ASSEMBLED Connecticut CONSIDERED A CANDIDATE constitution danger DAY OF SEPTEMBER DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE DECLINING BEING CONSIDERED dent duty elected executive experience favorite nation fellow-citizens foreign influence foreign nations FUTURE SUFFRAGES George Clymer GEORGE WASHINGTON greatest number hold house of representatives impeachment interest July jury justice legislature letters of marque liberty Maryland Massachusetts ment militia necessary number of electors number of votes oath or affirmation patriotism peace person voted political proper public opinion PUBLISHED BY A. F. respective Robert Morris Roger Sherman rule SECTION senators and representatives SEPTEMBER 17 SEVENTEENTH DAY SIGNERS solicitude South Carolina taxes thereof THOUSAND SEVEN HUNDRED tion treason treaties trust UNANIMOUS CONSENT union United Virginia whole number William
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Página 16 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Página 32 - 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 39 - Harmony, and a liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest. But even our commercial policy should hold an equal and impartial hand ; neither seeking nor granting exclusive favors or preferences ; consulting the natural course of things ; diffusing and diversifying by gentle means the streams of commerce, but forcing nothing...
Página 36 - It will be worthy of a free, enlightened, and, at no distant period, a great Nation, to give to mankind the magnanimous and too novel example of a people always guided by an exalted justice and benevolence.
Página 34 - If, in the opinion of the people, the distribution or modification of the constitutional powers be in any particular wrong, let it be corrected by an amendment in the way, which the constitution designates. But let there be no change by usurpation ; for, though this, in one instance, may be the instrument of good, it is the customary weapon by which free governments are destroyed. The precedent must always greatly overbalance in permanent evil any partial or transient benefit, which the use can at...
Página 38 - Why forego the advantages of so peculiar a situation? Why quit our own to stand upon foreign ground? Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European Ambition, Rivalship, Interest, Humor or Caprice?
Página 32 - One method of assault may be to effect, in the forms of the Constitution, alterations which will impair the energy of the system; and thus to undermine what cannot be directly overthrown. In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions...
Página 8 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Página 32 - ... facility in changes upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion; and remember especially that for the efficient management of your common interests in a country so extensive as ours a government of as much vigor as is consistent with the perfect security of liberty is indispensable.
Página 30 - One of the expedients of party to acquire influence within particular districts is to misrepresent the opinions and aims of other districts. You cannot shield yourselves too much against the jealousies and heart-burnings which spring from these misrepresentations; they tend to render alien to each other those who ought to be bound together by fraternal affection.