Our Rulers and Our Rights: Or, Outlines of the United States Government; Its Origin, Branches, Departments, Institutions, Officers, and Modes of Operation |
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... collected from whatever source , for carrying on the various opera- tions of the government . It was established by a law of Congress in 1789 ; and with such modifications of the law as experience has proved to be necessary , it remains ...
... collected from whatever source , for carrying on the various opera- tions of the government . It was established by a law of Congress in 1789 ; and with such modifications of the law as experience has proved to be necessary , it remains ...
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... collect debts due to the United States , and superintend the adjustment and preservation of the public accounts . The First Auditor receives all accounts coming into the department ; the Second , Third , Fourth and 44 OUTLINES OF U. S. ...
... collect debts due to the United States , and superintend the adjustment and preservation of the public accounts . The First Auditor receives all accounts coming into the department ; the Second , Third , Fourth and 44 OUTLINES OF U. S. ...
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... collect such statistical facts as the law requires . This they do through deputies , whom they appoint for that special purpose . The United States Marshal is also required , on the first day of January and July of each year , to make a ...
... collect such statistical facts as the law requires . This they do through deputies , whom they appoint for that special purpose . The United States Marshal is also required , on the first day of January and July of each year , to make a ...
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... collected from duties , from the sale of public lands , and from all other sources from which the revenue of the nation is raised ; and then the disbursement of the same to the army , to the navy , to the civil officers , and to the ...
... collected from duties , from the sale of public lands , and from all other sources from which the revenue of the nation is raised ; and then the disbursement of the same to the army , to the navy , to the civil officers , and to the ...
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... collected on imported goods , the sale of public lands , the income of the Post Office Department , and direct taxation , ( when resorted to ) are the princi- pal sources from which the revenues of the United States are raised . There ...
... collected on imported goods , the sale of public lands , the income of the Post Office Department , and direct taxation , ( when resorted to ) are the princi- pal sources from which the revenues of the United States are raised . There ...
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Page 407 - The Congress shall have power to dispose of and make all needful rules and regulations respecting the territory or other property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so, construed as to prejudice any claims of the United States, or of any particular state. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every state in this Union, a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion, and on application of the legislature, or of the...
Page 187 - I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter. So help me God.
Page 402 - To borrow money on the credit of the United States ; To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several States, and with the Indian tribes ; To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies, throughout the United States ; To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of...
Page 396 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise; the State remaining, in the meantime, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 400 - The Congress shall assemble at least once in every year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall, by law, appoint a different day. SECTION 5. Each house shall be the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members...
Page 398 - MARYLAND Samuel Chase William Paca Thomas Stone Charles Carroll, of Carrollton VIRGINIA George Wythe Richard Henry Lee Thomas Jefferson Benjamin Harrison Thomas Nelson, Jr.
Page 412 - States, or in any way abridged except for participation in rebellion or other crimes, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such state.
Page 169 - Point, the line of demarcation shall follow the summit of the mountains situated parallel to the Coast, as far as the point of intersection of the 141st degree...
Page 400 - No person shall' be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years, and been nine years a citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen.
Page 64 - States, who shall be sworn, or affirmed, to a faithful execution of his office; whose duty it shall be to prosecute and conduct all suits in the Supreme Court, in which the United States shall be concerned, and to give his advice and opinion upon questions of law, when required by the President of the United States, or when requested by the heads of any of the departments, touching any matters that may concern their departments, and shall receive such compensation for his services, as shall by law...