Our Constitution and Government: Lessons on the Constitution and Government of the United States for Use in the Public Schools by Candidates for CitizenshipU.S. Government Printing Office, 1955 - 226 páginas |
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... given a certificate of naturalization . This is the official paper that shows that the petitioner is now a citizen of his new nation , the country of his choice . Persons interested in becoming naturalized citizens of the United States ...
... given a certificate of naturalization . This is the official paper that shows that the petitioner is now a citizen of his new nation , the country of his choice . Persons interested in becoming naturalized citizens of the United States ...
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... given all persons the right to live , to be free , to work , and to be happy . Second : It said that the purpose of government is to protect the rights of the people . It said that a representative government should not make laws ...
... given all persons the right to live , to be free , to work , and to be happy . Second : It said that the purpose of government is to protect the rights of the people . It said that a representative government should not make laws ...
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... given authority to change the Articles of Confedera- tion . But they had written a new Constitution . Would the people accept what they had done ? The Constitutional Convention decided to get the opinion of the people . It asked each ...
... given authority to change the Articles of Confedera- tion . But they had written a new Constitution . Would the people accept what they had done ? The Constitutional Convention decided to get the opinion of the people . It asked each ...
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... given authority to make certain laws . The President is given authority to carry out the laws . The na- tional courts are given certain authority which we shall study in another chapter . ( 2 ) The Constitution tells the purposes of the ...
... given authority to make certain laws . The President is given authority to carry out the laws . The na- tional courts are given certain authority which we shall study in another chapter . ( 2 ) The Constitution tells the purposes of the ...
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... given a chance to prove that they did not break the law . Men have been tried and hanged for crimes that they did not do . Others have been tried before judges who were not fair . Still others have been put in jail without being told ...
... given a chance to prove that they did not break the law . Men have been tried and hanged for crimes that they did not do . Others have been tried before judges who were not fair . Still others have been put in jail without being told ...
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Página 187 - Electors appointed, and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice President of the United States.
Página 191 - The eighteenth article of amendment to the Constitution of the United States is hereby repealed. SECTION 2. The transportation or importation into any State, Territory, or possession of the United States for delivery or use therein of intoxicating liquors in violation of the laws thereof, is hereby prohibited. SECTION 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within...
Página 180 - 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 172 - All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.
Página 190 - January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Página 171 - 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 181 - Provided that no amendment which may be made prior to the year one thousand eight hundred and eight shall in any manner affect the first and fourth clauses in the ninth section of the first article ; and that no state, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate. ARTICLE VI. All debts contracted and engagements entered into before the adoption of this Constitution shall be as valid against the United States under this Constitution as under the Confederation.
Página 177 - ... States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President...
Página 169 - All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives. SECTION 2. The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature.
Página 186 - The electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for president and vice president, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same state with themselves; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...