How the Republic is GovernedC. Scribner's sons, 1895 - 169 páginas |
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... question , the Speaker is required to vote thereon , provided he has not already voted . Or , if his vote would cause an equal division of the House , and he has not already voted , then he is required to vote ; and in case of such an ...
... question , the Speaker is required to vote thereon , provided he has not already voted . Or , if his vote would cause an equal division of the House , and he has not already voted , then he is required to vote ; and in case of such an ...
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... question . The functions and powers of the House in all matters of legislation are the same as those of the Senate , with few exceptions . The House has no power to act on executive appointments , and none in the ratification or ...
... question . The functions and powers of the House in all matters of legislation are the same as those of the Senate , with few exceptions . The House has no power to act on executive appointments , and none in the ratification or ...
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... question , or participate in the general business of the House , he is not permitted to vote on any proposition whatever . The Legislature of each State is empowered to divide its population into districts , allowing to each district ...
... question , or participate in the general business of the House , he is not permitted to vote on any proposition whatever . The Legislature of each State is empowered to divide its population into districts , allowing to each district ...
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... question , or series of questions , shall refrain from voting . The result is thus left unaffected , and one or both of the parties to the agreement may be absent . This is called " a pair . " A majority of all the members of each House ...
... question , or series of questions , shall refrain from voting . The result is thus left unaffected , and one or both of the parties to the agreement may be absent . This is called " a pair . " A majority of all the members of each House ...
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... question " to be taken on any pending proposition , which has the ef- fect of closing all debate whatsoever . Or , the House may , by vote of its members , order that no member shall speak more than a certain number of minutes on a ...
... question " to be taken on any pending proposition , which has the ef- fect of closing all debate whatsoever . Or , the House may , by vote of its members , order that no member shall speak more than a certain number of minutes on a ...
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Página 143 - 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 Executive...
Página 142 - 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 127 - Senators. 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.
Página 122 - May next, to take into consideration the situation of the United States; to devise such further provisions as shall appear to them necessary to render the constitution of the Federal Government adequate to the exigencies of the Union...
Página 139 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...
Página 126 - 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. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
Página 136 - The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes ; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States. *No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President ; neither shall any Person be eligible...
Página 119 - ... independent States may of right do. And for the support of this declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor. Signed by order and in behalf of the Congress. JOHN HANCOCK, President.
Página 156 - Delaware, December 7, 1787 ; Pennsylvania, December 12, 1787 ; New Jersey, December 18, 1787 ; Georgia, January 2, 1788; Connecticut, January 9, 1788; Massachusetts, February 6, 1788; Maryland, April 28, 1788 ; South Carolina, May 23, 1788 ; New...
Página 112 - WHEN, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth the separate and equal station to which the laws of nature and of nature's God entitle them, a decent respect for the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.