Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Volumen2

Roger Foster

Boston Book Company, 1895 - 713 páginas

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INTRODUCTION 1 Paper Constitutions	1

Hostility to the Federal Constitution	3

Anarchy preceding the Federal Convention	6

Previous Attempts at Union	12

Preliminaries to the Federal Convention	19

Originality of the Work of the Federal Convention	22

Prototypes of the Federal Constitution	27

Models of the Federal Constitution	38

The Doctrine of Nullification	125

History of Nullification	145

Constitutional Aspects of Slavery	158

Constitutional History of the Southern Confederacy	186

505	201

Reconstruction	207

State Sovereignty and State Rights	246

506	263

Sovereign Powers of the United States in General	40

Compromises of the Constitution	41

Result of the Federal Convention	45

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER I	46

CHAPTER II	61

Sovereignty of the States before the Federal Constitution	63

The Constitution was formed by the Thirteen States	70

Legality of an Indissolubl Union between Sovereign States	73

The Constitution is not a Legal Compact	75

Proceedings in the Federal Convention concerning the Composition of the Senate	76

Senatorial Elections	77

Classification of the Senate	78

Filling Vacancies in the Senate	79

Proceedings in Federal Convention as to the Determination of the Form of the New Government	80

Constitutional Provisions Concerning the Presidency and Officers of the Senate	81

Powers of the VicePresident over the Senate	83

The President pro tempore of the Senate	84

Other Officers of the Senate	85

CHAPTER XIII	86

Origin of Impeachments	87

Proceedings in the Convention as to Impeachment	88

Reasons for the Trial of Impeachments by the Senate	89

History of Impeachments before the Senate of the United States	90

Persons Subject to Impeachment	91

History of the Preamble	92

Impeachable Offences	93

1 Zionificance of the Phrase We the people of the United States	94

Causes for which Public Officers may be Removed	95

Significance of the Phrase to form a more perfect Union	96

Significance of the Phrase to Establish Justice	97

Significance of the Phrase to Insure domestic Tranquillity	98

Significance of the Phrase to provide for the Common Defense	99

Significance of the Phrase to secure the Blessings of Liberty	100

Significance of the Word Constitution	103

Testimony of Contemporary Statesmen on the Nature of the Consti tution	104

Judicial Decisions as to the Nature of the Constitution	108

Early Assertions of the Right of Secession	116

APPENDIX TO CHAPTER II	279

Kentucky Resolutions of 1798	285

Kentucky Resolutions of 1799	291

CHAPTER III	297

Equilibrium of the Three Departments in the United States	303

Origin of Congress	309

CHAPTER V	316

The Fifteenth Amendment	327

Limitations of the Federal Constitution on the Power of the States	332

Constitutionality of Registration Laws	340

General Observations upon the Right of Suffrage	347

CHAPTER VII	355

Congressional Decisions on Qualifications of Senators and Represen	362

CHAPTER VIII	369

Manner of Apportionment	395

508	406

The Census	411

Direct Taxes	417

Jeffersons Opinion on the Apportionment of 1792	424

512	446

CHAPTER IX	447

The Speaker of the House	453

Origin of the Senate	459

529	493

Service of Process on Impeachment	610

Managers of Impeachment and Counsel for Prosecution 612 101 Swearing of the Senate	612

Appearance of the Accused	613

Pleadings of the Respondent	614

Replication 616 105 Proceedings on the Trial of an Impeachment	616

Evidence upon Impeachment Trials	619

Arguments of Counsel	621

Decision upon Impeachment	622

457	623

Imposition of Penalty upon Conviction	626

Pardons to Impeachments 111 Concluding Observations on Impeachments 616 619 621 622	628

APPENDIX TO VOL I	633

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Roger Foster
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Título	Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Volumen2 Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Roger Foster
Autor	Roger Foster
Editor	Boston Book Company, 1895
Procedencia del original	Universidad de Minnesota
Digitalizado	21 Mayo 2014
Largo	713 páginas

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