The Life and Public Services of Our Greatest Living Statesman, Hon. James G. Blaine ...

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Página 16 - law, or in the heads of departments. 3 The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session. Sec. 3. He shall from time to time give the Congress information of the state of
Página 9 - inventorsthe exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries ; 9 To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court ; 10 To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offences against the law of nations ; 11 To declare war,
Página 172 - and the right of the people peaceably to assemble and petition the government for a redress of grievances. We would preserve those great safeguards of civil freedom, the habeas corpus, the right of trial by jury, and the right of personal liberty, unless deprived thereof for crime by due process of
Página 3 - 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. Congress shall make no law
Página 17 - Had the votes of the States of Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee and Ohio; total, 105. Taylor and Fillmore, 1849. Had the votes of the States of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana and Florida ; total, 163.
Página 3 - 1 The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second year by the people of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous branch of the State Legislature. 2 No person «hall be a Representative who shall not have
Página 172 - Hannibal Hamlin, of Maine. The platform of principles adopted by the Republican Convention declared that " the maintenance of the principles promulgated in the Declaration of Independence and embodied in the federal Constitution is essential to the preservation of our republican institutions. . . . That all men are created equal ; that
Página 5 - also a President prò-tempore, in the absence of the Vice-Président, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States. 6 The Senate shall have the sole
Página 3 - l, CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. We the People of the United States, in order to form a more perfect Union, establish justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this CONSTITUTION for the United States of America. ARTICLE L Section 1.

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