A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States: Delivered Annually in Columbia College, New YorkHarper, 1858 - 419 páginas |
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... independent Governments , which secured the enjoyment of , 1. The inalienable natural rights of individuals . 2. The political and civil privileges of the citizens , designed for maintaining , or substituted as equiva- lents for ...
... independent Governments , which secured the enjoyment of , 1. The inalienable natural rights of individuals . 2. The political and civil privileges of the citizens , designed for maintaining , or substituted as equiva- lents for ...
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... independent states . The common origin and interests of the New - England provinces , the similarity of their manners , laws , religious tenets , and civil institutions , naturally led to a more intimate connexion among themselves , and ...
... independent states . The common origin and interests of the New - England provinces , the similarity of their manners , laws , religious tenets , and civil institutions , naturally led to a more intimate connexion among themselves , and ...
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... independent sovereignties ; and circumstances ena- bled and encouraged them to assume an exemption from the control of any superior power . By the charters from the crown , under which they had been founded , and which prescribed their ...
... independent sovereignties ; and circumstances ena- bled and encouraged them to assume an exemption from the control of any superior power . By the charters from the crown , under which they had been founded , and which prescribed their ...
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... independent states . * Preparatory to this momentous and uncompromi- sing measure , by which our Revolution may be said to have been consummated , an important preliminary step had been taken by Congress , which in itself was considered ...
... independent states . * Preparatory to this momentous and uncompromi- sing measure , by which our Revolution may be said to have been consummated , an important preliminary step had been taken by Congress , which in itself was considered ...
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... independent sovereign- ties , the decrees of the federal council affected the states only in their corporate capacity , as contradis- tinguished from the individuals of whom they are composed . This was considered by the ablest states ...
... independent sovereign- ties , the decrees of the federal council affected the states only in their corporate capacity , as contradis- tinguished from the individuals of whom they are composed . This was considered by the ablest states ...
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Página 355 - Congress shall make. 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.
Página 343 - All bills of credit emitted, moneys borrowed, and debts contracted by, or under the authority of congress, before the assembling of the United States, in pursuance of the present confederation, shall be deemed and considered as a charge against the United States, for payment and satisfaction whereof, the said United States, and the public faith are hereby solemnly pledged.
Página 398 - It is hereby ordained and declared by the authority aforesaid, That the following articles shall be considered as articles of compact between the original States and the people and States in the said territory and forever remain unalterable, unless by common consent, to wit: ART.
Página 400 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies North of an East and West line drawn through the Southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Página 351 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations made by law ; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States ; and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present emolument, office, or title...
Página 352 - Term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress...
Página 337 - No state without the Consent of the united states in congress assembled, shall send any embassy to, or receive any embassy from, or enter into any conference, agreement, alliance or treaty with any King prince or state ; nor shall any person holding any office of profit or trust under the united states, or any of them, accept of any present, emolument, office or title of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign state; nor shall the united states in congress assembled, or any of them, grant...
Página 332 - 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 dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Página 348 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Página 355 - States shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.