SPEECH OF MR. NORVELL, OF MICHIGAN, OF THE BILL OF MR. CRITTENDEN TO PREVENT THE INTERFERENCE OF CERTIAN FEDERAL OFFICERS IN ELECTIONS |
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In the absence of all interference, or attempted exercise of control by Congress,
the right of the States to provide for the election of all its representatives by a
general vote of the electors has never been disputed. The general-ticket system,
...
In the absence of all interference, or attempted exercise of control by Congress,
the right of the States to provide for the election of all its representatives by a
general vote of the electors has never been disputed. The general-ticket system,
...
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As to the choice of the members, reference is made by the constitution to the
people aggregately, as also to the electors qualified to vote. The authority is not
expressly given (nor can it be fairly implied) to subdivide the people and the
territory ...
As to the choice of the members, reference is made by the constitution to the
people aggregately, as also to the electors qualified to vote. The authority is not
expressly given (nor can it be fairly implied) to subdivide the people and the
territory ...
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The form and ceremony of receiving and registering $he votes, and the mode of
testing and ascertaining the ... Holding the election is one thing; whether the
elector shall vote for one or all the representatives is another and very different
thing.
The form and ceremony of receiving and registering $he votes, and the mode of
testing and ascertaining the ... Holding the election is one thing; whether the
elector shall vote for one or all the representatives is another and very different
thing.
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It was also a penal offence for a . citizen of one State to vote in, or meddle with,
the institutions of another. Such an offence was looked upon and punished as
treason. It is so, and is and has been considered so, in every republic. An abuse
of ...
It was also a penal offence for a . citizen of one State to vote in, or meddle with,
the institutions of another. Such an offence was looked upon and punished as
treason. It is so, and is and has been considered so, in every republic. An abuse
of ...
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The judges are sworn to receive no vote from the hand of any one not entitled to
a vote within the precinct, and to reject all votes from persons living without the
precinct, whether citizens of the State or the United States, or not. The object of ...
The judges are sworn to receive no vote from the hand of any one not entitled to
a vote within the precinct, and to reject all votes from persons living without the
precinct, whether citizens of the State or the United States, or not. The object of ...
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ADDRESS OF CHARLES H. ALLEN TO THE TWO BRANCHES OF THE LEGISLATURE OF PORTO ... Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - 1900 |
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Էջ 16 - Ohio, under the laws thereof, shall escape into any other of the said states, or territory, the person to whom such labor, or service, may be due, his agent, or attorney, is hereby empowered to seize or arrest such fugitive from labor, and to take him or her before any judge of the circuit or district courts of the United States, residing, or being within the state, or before any magistrate of a county, city, or town corporate, wherein such seizure or arrest shall be made...
Էջ 16 - That any person who shall knowingly and willingly obstruct or hinder such claimant, his agent or attorney, in so seizing or arresting such fugitive from labor, or shall rescue such fugitive from such claimant, his agent or attorney, when so arrested pursuant to the authority herein given or declared; or shall harbor or conceal such person after notice that he or she was a fugitive from labor as aforesaid, shall, for either of the said offences, forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars.
Էջ 16 - Historically, it is well known, that the object of this clause was to secure to the citizens of the slaveholding states the complete right and title of ownership in their slaves, as property, in every state in the Union into which they might escape from the state where they were held in servitude. The full recognition of this right and title was indispensable to the security of this species of property in all the slaveholding states; and, indeed, was so vital to the preservation of their domestic...