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... , respecting which it had been consulted by conventions of several of the Colonies . So great a trust was never reposed before in a body thus constituted . " --lc xiv over to a bookersa crisiens . Preface ? Preface xiii.
... , respecting which it had been consulted by conventions of several of the Colonies . So great a trust was never reposed before in a body thus constituted . " --lc xiv over to a bookersa crisiens . Preface ? Preface xiii.
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... bodies represented in the Senate , the people themselves being represented in the other House . As the State itself was to be represented in Congress , it was concluded that the State government ( the legislature ) could best choose its ...
... bodies represented in the Senate , the people themselves being represented in the other House . As the State itself was to be represented in Congress , it was concluded that the State government ( the legislature ) could best choose its ...
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... body , so that it cannot be made up ( as the House may be ) entirely of inexperienced members . and if Vacancies happen by Resignation , or otherwise , during the Recess of the Legislature of any State , the Executive thereof may make ...
... body , so that it cannot be made up ( as the House may be ) entirely of inexperienced members . and if Vacancies happen by Resignation , or otherwise , during the Recess of the Legislature of any State , the Executive thereof may make ...
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... bodies to meet in joint session on a fixed day and required their meeting every day thereafter . Congress also fixed the day for the voting in all States for President and Vice President , the first Tuesday after the first Monday in ...
... bodies to meet in joint session on a fixed day and required their meeting every day thereafter . Congress also fixed the day for the voting in all States for President and Vice President , the first Tuesday after the first Monday in ...
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... body . In one instance it became necessary for the King to resort to successive adjourn- ments for fifteen months to stop a quarrel between the Houses . A few years later the strife again appeared and the King made peace once more . The ...
... body . In one instance it became necessary for the King to resort to successive adjourn- ments for fifteen months to stop a quarrel between the Houses . A few years later the strife again appeared and the King made peace once more . The ...
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Page 147 - The Constitution of the United States is a law for rulers and people, equally in war and in peace, and covers with the shield of its protection all classes of men, at all times, and under all circumstances. No doctrine, involving more pernicious consequences, was ever invented by the wit of man, than that any of its provisions can be suspended during any of the great exigencies of government.
Page 253 - When vacancies happen in the representation of any State in the Senate, the executive authority of such State shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies : Provided, That the legislature of any State may empower the executive thereof to make temporary appointment until the people fill the vacancies by election as the legislature may direct. This amendment shall not be so construed as to affect the election or term of any Senator chosen before it becomes valid as part of the Constitution.
Page 60 - But forasmuch as he had not to pay, his lord commanded him to be sold and his wife* and children, and all that he had, and payment to be made.
Page 4 - Philadelphia for the sole and express purpose of revising the articles of Confederation and reporting to Congress and the several legislatures such alterations and provisions therein as shall, when agreed to in Congress and confirmed by the States, render the federal Constitution adequate to the exigencies of government and the preservation of the Union.
Page 6 - The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Page 194 - The conventions of a number of the states having, at the time of their adopting the constitution, expressed a desire, in order to prevent misconstruction or abuse of its powers, that further declaratory and restrictive clauses should be added...
Page 34 - Congress by less than two nor by more than seven members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the United States for which he, or another for his benefit, receives any salary, fees, or emolument of any kind.
Page 77 - States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations.
Page 225 - Time works changes, brings into existence new conditions and purposes. Therefore a principle to be vital must be capable of wider application than the mischief which gave it birth.
Page 4 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.