The Evolution of the Constitution of the United States: Showing that it is a Development of Progressive History and Not an Isolated Document Struck Off at a Given Time Or an Imitation of English Or Dutch Forms of GovernmentJ.B. Lippincott, 1897 - 398 páginas |
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... hold real estate and to implead and be impleaded . A settlement had been effected in 1607 , on the James River , within the territory of the first colony ; but nothing had been accomplished within the domain of the second colony . The ...
... hold real estate and to implead and be impleaded . A settlement had been effected in 1607 , on the James River , within the territory of the first colony ; but nothing had been accomplished within the domain of the second colony . The ...
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... hold general courts or meetings , and to make laws , appoint officers , arrange the manner of government , and elect persons to the council . Here we have the power of making laws and appointing offi- cers taken away from the council ...
... hold general courts or meetings , and to make laws , appoint officers , arrange the manner of government , and elect persons to the council . Here we have the power of making laws and appointing offi- cers taken away from the council ...
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... hold dissenters like the Puritans with a somewhat stronger hand . Proceedings were begun to annul the Massachusetts charter , and they were consummated June 18 , 1684 . For some years Massachusetts had no charter , and was 62 Evolution ...
... hold dissenters like the Puritans with a somewhat stronger hand . Proceedings were begun to annul the Massachusetts charter , and they were consummated June 18 , 1684 . For some years Massachusetts had no charter , and was 62 Evolution ...
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... come to the Senate it is as unlike the House of Lords as is possible . It is not hereditary . Its members do not hold office for life , but for six years , and it is constituted expressly by localities , 100 Evolution of the Constitution.
... come to the Senate it is as unlike the House of Lords as is possible . It is not hereditary . Its members do not hold office for life , but for six years , and it is constituted expressly by localities , 100 Evolution of the Constitution.
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... hold some executive office or be an officer in the militia . The first appearance of any conscious attempt to keep the powers more distinctly separated is in the Georgia charter of 1732 , which provides that no person holding an office ...
... hold some executive office or be an officer in the militia . The first appearance of any conscious attempt to keep the powers more distinctly separated is in the Georgia charter of 1732 , which provides that no person holding an office ...
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Página 277 - ... 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...
Página 302 - ... to agree upon the number of land forces, and to make requisitions from each state for its quota, in proportion to the number of white inhabitants in such state...
Página 193 - That religion or the duty which we owe to our Creator, and the manner of discharging it, can be directed only by reason and conviction, not by force or violence ; and, therefore, all men are equally entitled to the free exercise of religion, according to the dictates of conscience ; and that it is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love and charity towards each other.
Página 386 - 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...
Página 282 - No state shall engage in any war without the consent of the united states in congress assembled, unless such state be actually invaded by enemies, or shall have received certain advice of a resolution being formed by some nation of Indians to invade such state, and the danger is so imminent as not to admit of a delay, till the united states in congress assembled can be consulted...
Página 385 - No person held to service or labour in one State, under the laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in consequence of any law or regulation therein, be discharged from such service or labour, but shall be delivered up on claim of the party to whom such service or labour may be due. Section 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more...
Página 291 - The better to secure and perpetuate mutual friendship and intercourse among the people of the different States in this Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, (paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted,) shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States...
Página 281 - 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.
Página 304 - The United States in congress assembled shall also have the sole and exclusive right and power of regulating the alloy and value of coin struck by their own authority, or by that of the respective states: fixing the standard of weights and measures throughout the United States...
Página 275 - Resolved, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the national legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...