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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... meet with the President to consult with him on the affairs and admnistration of the gov- ernment , it is called " a Cabinet meeting . " Our for- eign affairs and relations with other governments form the subjects of much of their ...
... meet with the President to consult with him on the affairs and admnistration of the gov- ernment , it is called " a Cabinet meeting . " Our for- eign affairs and relations with other governments form the subjects of much of their ...
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... meets with almost universal approba- tion ; and has caused many to hope that the States would alter their Constitutions and adopt the same plan ; believing it to be the surest way of preserving a pure and independent Judiciary , on ...
... meets with almost universal approba- tion ; and has caused many to hope that the States would alter their Constitutions and adopt the same plan ; believing it to be the surest way of preserving a pure and independent Judiciary , on ...
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... meet the necessities and wants of the people in all their relations to the government and to each other ; to regulate the army , the navy , our diplomatic intercourse with foreign nations , and in short everything which requires legis ...
... meet the necessities and wants of the people in all their relations to the government and to each other ; to regulate the army , the navy , our diplomatic intercourse with foreign nations , and in short everything which requires legis ...
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... meets Greek , then comes the tug of war . ' When Democrat meets Democrat , then comes defeat . But to drop military figures , the respective candi- dates at this election were : Whig , Zachary Taylor for President , and Millard Fillmore ...
... meets Greek , then comes the tug of war . ' When Democrat meets Democrat , then comes defeat . But to drop military figures , the respective candi- dates at this election were : Whig , Zachary Taylor for President , and Millard Fillmore ...
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... , when chosen , must meet in their respective States on the first Wednesday of December —that is , when a Presidential election occurs ( which is every fourth year ; ) and when assembled , 154 OUTLINES OF U. S. GOVERNMENT . Electors.
... , when chosen , must meet in their respective States on the first Wednesday of December —that is , when a Presidential election occurs ( which is every fourth year ; ) and when assembled , 154 OUTLINES OF U. S. GOVERNMENT . Electors.
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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...