Key-notes of American Liberty: Comprising the Most Important Speeches, Proclamations, and Acts of Congress, from the Foundation of the Government to the Present Time. With a History of the FlagE. B. Treat & Company, 1866 - 273 Seiten |
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... authority of the good people of these colonies , solemnly publish and declare that these United Col- onies are , and of good right ought to be , free and independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British ...
... authority of the good people of these colonies , solemnly publish and declare that these United Col- onies are , and of good right ought to be , free and independent States ; that they are absolved from all allegiance to the British ...
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... six ; Virginia , ten ; North Carolina , five ; South Carolina , five ; Georgia , three . 4. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State , the executive authority thereof shall issue CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . 19.
... six ; Virginia , ten ; North Carolina , five ; South Carolina , five ; Georgia , three . 4. When vacancies happen in the representation of any State , the executive authority thereof shall issue CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . 19.
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... authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies . 5. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers , and shall have the sole power of impeachment . III . - 1 . The Senate of the United ...
... authority thereof shall issue writs of election to fill such vacancies . 5. The House of Representatives shall choose their speaker and other officers , and shall have the sole power of impeachment . III . - 1 . The Senate of the United ...
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... authority of the United States which shall have been created , or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased , during such time ; and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either house during ...
... authority of the United States which shall have been created , or the emoluments whereof shall have been increased , during such time ; and no person holding any office under the United States shall be a member of either house during ...
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... authority of training the militia , according to the discipline pre- scribed by Congress : 17. To exercise exclusive legislation , in all cases whatsoever , over such district ( not exceeding ten miles square ) as may , by cession of ...
... authority of training the militia , according to the discipline pre- scribed by Congress : 17. To exercise exclusive legislation , in all cases whatsoever , over such district ( not exceeding ten miles square ) as may , by cession of ...
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Seite 51 - 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.
Seite 269 - that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes, alternate red and white; that the union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation.
Seite 33 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Seite 27 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Seite 74 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Seite 77 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those, out of whom...
Seite 35 - ... 2. A person charged in any state with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another state, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the state from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the state having jurisdiction of the crime.
Seite 225 - With malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right as God gives us to see the right, let us strive...
Seite 11 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Seite 92 - It is important, likewise, that the habits of thinking, in a free country, should inspire caution in those intrusted with its administration, to confine themselves within their respective constitutional spheres, avoiding, in the exercise of the powers of one department, to encroach upon another. The spirit of encroachment tends to consolidate the powers of all the departments in one, and thus to create, whatever the form of government, a real despotism.