The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1852 |
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... Amendment to the Constitution . 85 NOVEMBER , 1803 . HISTORY OF CONGRESS . Amendment. SENATE . and , after which decision , must go to the several States , and depend for its final adoption upon three - fourths of the States . It does ...
... Amendment to the Constitution . 85 NOVEMBER , 1803 . HISTORY OF CONGRESS . Amendment. SENATE . and , after which decision , must go to the several States , and depend for its final adoption upon three - fourths of the States . It does ...
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... Amendment to the Constitution . SENATE . the House of Representatives had already agreed danger , than put into the hands of four of the to it . He asked for a division of the question ; which was not agreed to . Upon the question for ...
... Amendment to the Constitution . SENATE . the House of Representatives had already agreed danger , than put into the hands of four of the to it . He asked for a division of the question ; which was not agreed to . Upon the question for ...
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... AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION . The consideration of the report on the amend- ment to the Constitution being taken up ; the amendment as directed to be printed on the pre- ceding day , was taken up , and read , as follows : more ...
... AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION . The consideration of the report on the amend- ment to the Constitution being taken up ; the amendment as directed to be printed on the pre- ceding day , was taken up , and read , as follows : more ...
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... Amendment to the Constitution . Amendment to the Constitution . NOVEMBER , 1803 . case , when the third and fourth persons were equally high in votes ? Mr. TAYLOR was against the recommittal , be- cause he had no doubt that the ...
... Amendment to the Constitution . Amendment to the Constitution . NOVEMBER , 1803 . case , when the third and fourth persons were equally high in votes ? Mr. TAYLOR was against the recommittal , be- cause he had no doubt that the ...
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... Amendment to the Constitution . Amendment to the Constitution . SENATE . teration to designation alters the whole thing ; and as the gentlemen has expressed , will send the Vice President's office into market to be handed about as ...
... Amendment to the Constitution . Amendment to the Constitution . SENATE . teration to designation alters the whole thing ; and as the gentlemen has expressed , will send the Vice President's office into market to be handed about as ...
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Página 685 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers 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...
Página 481 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 393 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states.
Página 253 - The General Assembly, or Legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be a quorum; and the members...
Página 745 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Página 745 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Página 135 - President, the vote shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote...
Página 283 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.
Página 213 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Página 519 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States...