The Federalist: A Commentary on the Constitution of the United StatesM. Walter Dunne, 1901 - 225 páginas |
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... JURY . . - PAGE Objection that there is no provision in the proposed Con- stitution for trial by jury in civil cases considered True meaning of maxims on which this objection rests - Impor- tance of right of trial by jury considered ...
... JURY . . - PAGE Objection that there is no provision in the proposed Con- stitution for trial by jury in civil cases considered True meaning of maxims on which this objection rests - Impor- tance of right of trial by jury considered ...
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... jury to stand between the judges who are to pronounce the sentence of the law , and the party who is to receive or suffer it . The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have , to doom to honor or to infamy the ...
... jury to stand between the judges who are to pronounce the sentence of the law , and the party who is to receive or suffer it . The awful discretion which a court of impeachments must necessarily have , to doom to honor or to infamy the ...
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... jury , in the second instance , would obviate the danger . But juries are frequently influenced by the opinions of judges . They are sometimes induced to find special verdicts , which refer the main question to the decision of the court ...
... jury , in the second instance , would obviate the danger . But juries are frequently influenced by the opinions of judges . They are sometimes induced to find special verdicts , which refer the main question to the decision of the court ...
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... jury , in favor of the civil - law mode of trial , which prevails in our courts of admiralty , probate , and chancery . A technical sense has been affixed to the term " appellate , " which , in our law parlance , is commonly used in ...
... jury , in favor of the civil - law mode of trial , which prevails in our courts of admiralty , probate , and chancery . A technical sense has been affixed to the term " appellate , " which , in our law parlance , is commonly used in ...
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... jury , yet they unques- tionably have jurisdiction of both fact and law ; and accordingly when the former is agreed in the pleadings , they have no recourse to a jury , but proceed at once to judgment . I contend , therefore , on this ...
... jury , yet they unques- tionably have jurisdiction of both fact and law ; and accordingly when the former is agreed in the pleadings , they have no recourse to a jury , but proceed at once to judgment . I contend , therefore , on this ...
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Página 185 - To establish post offices and post roads; To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries; To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court; To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and...
Página 202 - ... on the list the Senate shall choose the Vice-President; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States.
Página 189 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States, at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 175 - ... of establishing rules for deciding in all cases, what captures on land or water shall be legal, and in what manner prizes taken by land or naval forces in the service of the United States shall be divided or appropriated...
Página 196 - It is obviously impracticable, in the Federal Government of these States, to secure all rights of independent sovereignty to each, and yet provide for the interest and safety of all. Individuals entering into society must give up a share of liberty to preserve the rest.
Página 180 - AND WHEREAS it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said articles of confederation and perpetual union.
Página 178 - State shall appoint the regimental officers, raise the men, and clothe, arm, and equip them in a soldier-like manner at the expense of the United States ; and the officers and men so clothed, armed, and equipped shall march to the place appointed, and within the time agreed on by the United States, in Congress assembled ; but if the United States, in Congress assembled...
Página 183 - SECT. 4. 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.
Página 96 - Limitations of this kind can be preserved in practice no other way than through the medium of the courts of justice; whose duty it must be to declare all acts contrary to the manifest tenor of the Constitution void. Without this, all the reservations of particular rights or privileges would amount to nothing.
Página 195 - That it is the opinion of this convention, that as soon as the conventions of nine States shall have ratified this Constitution, the United States in Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same...