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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... present system . During the Revolution , the pressure of an in- stant and common danger kept the states in a close union , and incited them to make all possible efforts in the com- mon defence . When that was over , however , mutual ...
... present system . During the Revolution , the pressure of an in- stant and common danger kept the states in a close union , and incited them to make all possible efforts in the com- mon defence . When that was over , however , mutual ...
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... present Constitution of the United States . 15. By resolution1 of the convention , it was directed to be carried into effect when ratified by the conventions of nine states chosen by " the people thereof . " That ratification , after ...
... present Constitution of the United States . 15. By resolution1 of the convention , it was directed to be carried into effect when ratified by the conventions of nine states chosen by " the people thereof . " That ratification , after ...
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... presents us ; but as a government , it was utterly inefficient : its prin- cipal defects in the last point of view were , 1. The want of an Executive , without which it could never act as a whole . All the acts of the commissioners had ...
... presents us ; but as a government , it was utterly inefficient : its prin- cipal defects in the last point of view were , 1. The want of an Executive , without which it could never act as a whole . All the acts of the commissioners had ...
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... present Constitution was formed and adopted . 27. In this chapter we have established these propositions : - 1st . That the idea of a union of the colonies origin- ated in the very earliest stage of their existence . 2d . That their ...
... present Constitution was formed and adopted . 27. In this chapter we have established these propositions : - 1st . That the idea of a union of the colonies origin- ated in the very earliest stage of their existence . 2d . That their ...
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... present . 2Council are then heard for the respective parties ; all motions are addressed to the President , and decisions are made by ayes and nays without debate . Witnesses are ex- amined and cross - examined , in the usual manner ...
... present . 2Council are then heard for the respective parties ; all motions are addressed to the President , and decisions are made by ayes and nays without debate . Witnesses are ex- amined and cross - examined , in the usual manner ...
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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.