The Political Grammar of the United States: Or, A Complete View of the Theory and Practice of the General and State Governments, with the Relations Between ThemHarper & brothers, 1834 - 275 páginas |
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... persons confeder- ated , by a similarity of objects and opinions in oppo- sition to others.4 An illustration of this ... persons , whether majority or minority , confederated by some common 2Spirit of Laws , book 2d , chap . II . 1 ...
... persons confeder- ated , by a similarity of objects and opinions in oppo- sition to others.4 An illustration of this ... persons , whether majority or minority , confederated by some common 2Spirit of Laws , book 2d , chap . II . 1 ...
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... persons , or to the interests of community . The difference between party and faction then is , that the former is a difference of principle , and is founded on a general or public object ; the latter may have any motive , however ...
... persons , or to the interests of community . The difference between party and faction then is , that the former is a difference of principle , and is founded on a general or public object ; the latter may have any motive , however ...
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... person , maintaining a perpetual succession , by means of several individuals , united in one body through a com- mon seal . They have a legal immortality , except so far as they are limited by the law of their creation . These were ...
... person , maintaining a perpetual succession , by means of several individuals , united in one body through a com- mon seal . They have a legal immortality , except so far as they are limited by the law of their creation . These were ...
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... persons who had not attended church last year should be imprisoned , that law would be unconsti- tutional , because ex post facto . But if the legislature should pass an act that those who had attended militia duty last year should be ...
... persons who had not attended church last year should be imprisoned , that law would be unconsti- tutional , because ex post facto . But if the legislature should pass an act that those who had attended militia duty last year should be ...
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... persons vote at an election . To ballot signifies voting by ballot , i . e . by ball , or ticket . Formerly voting ... person voted for is written on a ticket , and deposited in a box . 31. QUORUM , -is such a number of any body as is ...
... persons vote at an election . To ballot signifies voting by ballot , i . e . by ball , or ticket . Formerly voting ... person voted for is written on a ticket , and deposited in a box . 31. QUORUM , -is such a number of any body as is ...
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2d Clause accounts admiralty adopted amendments appointed articles of confederation authority bill bill of attainder charged chosen citizens civil clerks committee Common Law comptroller Congress consent Consti Constitution contract crimes decision declared direct direct taxes district duties elected electors Elliott's Debates established executive exercise grant Habeas Corpus House of Representatives Idem impeachment Indian Jefferson's Manual judge judgment judicial Judiciary jurisdiction jury justice Kent's Comm Land Office legislative Legislature letters of marque majority manner ment militia mode Navy necessary New-York number of votes object offences Ohio party patent person Post-office President public lands public ministers punishment question ratified regulate relation respect rules Secretary Secretary at War Sect SECTION Senate sovereign sovereignty statute Story's Comm superintend Supreme Court survey territory thereof tion Treasury treaties tution two-thirds Union United vested Vice-President Wheaton whole number writ
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Página 161 - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature 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 under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Página 71 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Página 157 - 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 160 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Página 159 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Página 156 - Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. 5. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a president pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States. 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments: when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief-Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted...
Página 162 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Página 62 - States, be considered as citizens thereof; and the children of persons who now are, or have been, citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Página 178 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Página 157 - 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 the places of choosing senators.