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... nominated Rufus King for President , but made no nomination for Vice - President . The party was virtually dead . Monroe received an over- whelming majority . From that time forward the Federal party ceased to exist . PART VII . THIRTY ...
... nominated Rufus King for President , but made no nomination for Vice - President . The party was virtually dead . Monroe received an over- whelming majority . From that time forward the Federal party ceased to exist . PART VII . THIRTY ...
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... nominated . His election would have been unanimous had not one elector voted against him , on the ground that he was not willing that any President but Washington should have a unanimous vote . ' JAMES MONROE . The President's Journey ...
... nominated . His election would have been unanimous had not one elector voted against him , on the ground that he was not willing that any President but Washington should have a unanimous vote . ' JAMES MONROE . The President's Journey ...
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... nominated by their political friends . When the votes were counted it appeared that Andrew Jackson had received ninety - nine , John Quincy Adams eighty - four , Wil- liam H. Crawford forty - one , and Henry Clay thirty - seven ...
... nominated by their political friends . When the votes were counted it appeared that Andrew Jackson had received ninety - nine , John Quincy Adams eighty - four , Wil- liam H. Crawford forty - one , and Henry Clay thirty - seven ...
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... nominated a candidate for the Presidency in 1832 , but soon after died out . The Temperance Cause . - As has been already stated , the drinking of intoxicating liquors was very common in colonial times . It continued so in the early ...
... nominated a candidate for the Presidency in 1832 , but soon after died out . The Temperance Cause . - As has been already stated , the drinking of intoxicating liquors was very common in colonial times . It continued so in the early ...
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... nominated . The two parties had now become well defined , Adams being the candidate of the National Republican , Jackson of the Democratic . In the election the sentiment of the people was strongly expressed . Jackson was a popular ...
... nominated . The two parties had now become well defined , Adams being the candidate of the National Republican , Jackson of the Democratic . In the election the sentiment of the people was strongly expressed . Jackson was a popular ...
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Page 540 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury, and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place or places as the Congress may by law have directed.
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Page 534 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 540 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
Page 538 - 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.
Page 532 - Union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquillity, 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 I. SECTION I. — All Legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION II.
Page 543 - Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Page 539 - United States whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law ; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 536 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when in cases of rebellion or invasion the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder or ex post facto law shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 537 - ... §7. No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law, and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. §8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...