The Twelve Stars of Our Republic: Our Nation's Gift-book to Her Young Citizens

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E. Walker, 1850 - 364 páginas
 

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Página 297 - any department or officer thereof.}: SECTION 9. The migration or importation of such persons as any of the states now existing shall think proper to admit, shall not be prohibited by • Vide amendments, art. ii. t Congress has authority to impose a direct tax on the District of Columbia, in proportion to the census directed to be
Página 285 - their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare ; binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Página 297 - seat of the government of the United States,f and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings ;—And To make all laws which shall
Página 289 - safely be spared out of the same ; in which case they shall raise, officer, clothe, arm, and equip, as many of such extra number as they judge can be safely spared. And the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped, shall march to the
Página 76 - his holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action ; and bidding an affectionate farewell to this august body, under whose orders I have long acted, I here ofler my commission, and take my leave of all employment of public life.
Página 89 - another—that it must pay with a portion of its independence for whatever it may accept under that character—that by such acceptance it may place itself in the condition of having given equivalents for nominal favors, and yet of being reproached with ingratitude for not having given more.
Página 280 - RHODE ISLAND. STEPHEN HOPKINS, WILLIAM ELLERT. CONNECTICUT. ROGER SHERMAN, SAMUEL HUNTINGTON, WILLIAM WiLLIAMS, OLIVER WOLCOTT. NEW YORK. WILLIAM FLOYD, PHILIP LIVINGSTON, FRANCIS LEWIS, LEWIS MORRIS. NEW JERSEY. RICHARD STOCKTON, JOHN WITHERSPOON, FRANCIS HOPKINSON, JOHN HART, ABRAHAM CLARK. PENNSYLVANIA. ROBERT MORRIS, BENJAMIN RUSH, BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, JOHN MORTON, GEORGE CLYMER, JAMES SMITH, GEORGE TAYLOR, JAMES WILSON, GEORGE Ross. DELAWARE. CJESAR RODNEY,
Página 300 - votes of the electors shall be the vice-president. But if there should remain two or more who have equal votes, the senate shall choose from them by ballot the vice-president.*] No person except a natural born citizen,
Página 76 - an indispensable duty to close this last solemn act of my official life by commending the interests of our dearest country to the protection of Almighty God, and those who have the superintendence of them into his holy keeping. Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of action
Página 272 - letters accompanying the same, be transmitted to the several legislatures, in order to be submitted to a convention of delegates chosen in each state by the people thereof, in conformity to the resolves of the convention, made and provided in that case.

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