Manual of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the Instruction of American Youth in the Duties, Obligations, and Rights of CitizenshipVan Antwerp, Bragg & Company, 1874 - 370 էջ |
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... Questions were continually suggesting themselves , to which answers could be obtained only after laborious research . Urged on by a deep interest in the subject , and availing himself of the unusual facilities for the prose- cution of ...
... Questions were continually suggesting themselves , to which answers could be obtained only after laborious research . Urged on by a deep interest in the subject , and availing himself of the unusual facilities for the prose- cution of ...
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... questions . There is probably a stronger desire for such knowledge now than at any previous time , and a corresponding demand for the intro- duction of such studies into all our schools of higher grade . Two circumstances facilitate the ...
... questions . There is probably a stronger desire for such knowledge now than at any previous time , and a corresponding demand for the intro- duction of such studies into all our schools of higher grade . Two circumstances facilitate the ...
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... question from any other com- munity - in short , a body politic , with no political superior , is a sovereign state or nation . ' France and England are sovereign nations ; so is the United States . The sovereignty is in the state , as ...
... question from any other com- munity - in short , a body politic , with no political superior , is a sovereign state or nation . ' France and England are sovereign nations ; so is the United States . The sovereignty is in the state , as ...
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... questions in this Congress each colony or province shall have one vote ; the Congress not being possessed of , or at present able to procure , proper materials for ascertaining the importance of each colony . " This rule of equal ...
... questions in this Congress each colony or province shall have one vote ; the Congress not being possessed of , or at present able to procure , proper materials for ascertaining the importance of each colony . " This rule of equal ...
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... question of separation began to be discussed . On the twenty - second of April , the convention of North Carolina empowered their delegates in Congress " to concur with those in the other colonies in declaring in- dependency . This , it ...
... question of separation began to be discussed . On the twenty - second of April , the convention of North Carolina empowered their delegates in Congress " to concur with those in the other colonies in declaring in- dependency . This , it ...
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Manual of the Constitution of the United States: Designed for the ... Israel Ward Andrews Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1874 |
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Էջ xvi - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory; to provide also for the establishment of states, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original states, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Էջ xix - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted: Provided always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed In any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed, and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Էջ 41 - Congress it is expedient that on the second Monday in May next a Convention of delegates who shall have been appointed by the several States be held at 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.
Էջ xi - ... the United States, in Congress assembled. The United States, in Congress assembled, shall never engage in a war, nor grant letters of marque and reprisal in time of peace...
Էջ xii - And the Articles of this Confederation shall be inviolably observed by every State, and the Union shall be perpetual; nor shall any alteration at any time hereafter be made in any of them, unless such alteration be agreed to in a Congress of the United States, and be afterwards confirmed by the legislatures of every State.
Էջ xxv - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Էջ xx - ... 3. 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.
Էջ xi - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Էջ xi - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by or under the authority of Congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present Confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof the said United States and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Էջ xxi - 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.