A View of the Constitution of the United States of AmericaP.H. Nicklin, 1829 - 349 páginas |
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... Senate , 36 CHAPTER IV . Of the House of Representatives , 41 CHAPTER V. Of the President's Participation in the Legislative Power , 50 CHAPTER VI . Of the Manner of Exercising the Legislative Power , 60 CHAPTER VII . Of the Treaty ...
... Senate , 36 CHAPTER IV . Of the House of Representatives , 41 CHAPTER V. Of the President's Participation in the Legislative Power , 50 CHAPTER VI . Of the Manner of Exercising the Legislative Power , 60 CHAPTER VII . Of the Treaty ...
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... senate and house of representatives ; to what extent the president participates in general legislation , and his power in conjunction with the senate relative to making treaties , with the operation and effect of treaties ; we shall ...
... senate and house of representatives ; to what extent the president participates in general legislation , and his power in conjunction with the senate relative to making treaties , with the operation and effect of treaties ; we shall ...
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... country wants the character of certainty . No act of congress could prolong the continuance of the legislature beyond the term fixed by the Constitution . CHAPTER III . OF THE SENATE . THE senate , OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER . 35.
... country wants the character of certainty . No act of congress could prolong the continuance of the legislature beyond the term fixed by the Constitution . CHAPTER III . OF THE SENATE . THE senate , OF THE LEGISLATIVE POWER . 35.
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William Rawle. CHAPTER III . OF THE SENATE . THE senate , on account of its more permanent duration and various functions , will receive our first attention . If the infusion of any aristocratic quality can be found in our Con- stitution ...
William Rawle. CHAPTER III . OF THE SENATE . THE senate , on account of its more permanent duration and various functions , will receive our first attention . If the infusion of any aristocratic quality can be found in our Con- stitution ...
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... senators - a number which would have been inconvenient , if the votes in the senate were taken , as in the former congress , by states , when , if the delegates from a state were equally divided , the vote of the state was lost ; and ...
... senators - a number which would have been inconvenient , if the votes in the senate were taken , as in the former congress , by states , when , if the delegates from a state were equally divided , the vote of the state was lost ; and ...
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Página 337 - ... 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 309 - While, then, every part of our country thus feels an immediate and particular interest in union, all the parts combined cannot fail to find in the united mass of means and efforts, greater strength, greater resource, proportionably greater security from external danger, a less frequent interruption of their peace by foreign nations, and, what is of inestimable value, they must derive from union an exemption from those broils and wars between themselves...
Página 331 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Página 245 - States shall be divided or appropriated.. ..of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace... .appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.
Página 332 - 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 of any kind whatever, from any king, prince, or foreign State.
Página 308 - But these considerations, however powerfully they address themselves to your sensibility, are greatly outweighed by those which apply more immediately to your interest. Here every portion of our country finds the most commanding motives for carefully guarding and preserving the union of the whole. The North, in an unrestrained intercourse with the South, protected by the equal laws of a common government, finds, in the productions of the latter, great additional resources of maritime and commercial...
Página 332 - ... shall not be prohibited by the Congress .prior to the Year one thousand eight hundred and eight, but a Tax or duty may be imposed on such Importation, not exceeding ten dollars for each Person. 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 expost facto Law shall be passed. 4 No Capitation, or other direct, tax shall be laid, unless in Proportion to the Census or Enumeration...
Página 328 - 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 337 - Treason against the United 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.
Página 83 - The genius and character of the whole government seem to be, that its action is to be applied to all the external concerns of the nation, and to those internal concerns which affect the states generally ; but not to those which are completely within a particular state, which do not affect other states, and with which it is not necessary to interfere for the purpose of executing some of the general powers of the government.