The State and Federal Governments of the United States: A Brief Manual for Schools and CollegesD.C. Heath, 1889 - 131 páginas |
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Página 51 - ... order to obtain such papers he must have lived in the United States at least five years, and in the state or territory in which he makes application at least one year ; and at least two years before his application he must have declared in court under oath his intention to become a naturalized citizen.
Página 108 - Court can have original jurisdiction in two classes of cases only, viz., in cases affecting ambassadors, other public ministers and consuls, and in cases in which a state is a party.
Página 103 - Elections to the House. — Any one may be chosen a representative who has reached the age of twenty-five years, has been a citizen of the United States for seven years, and is at the time of his election an inhabitant of the state from one of whose districts he is chosen. The term of a representative is two years: and two years is also the term of the whole House; for its members are not chosen a section at a time, as the senators are; the whole membership of the House is renewed every second year....
Página 8 - ... into precincts; empowered to act as the general administrative authority of the county in the management of all matters not otherwise assigned. The Episcopal church had the same official recognition in Virginia as in England and contributed the same machinery, — the machinery of the Vestry, — to local government. Even the division of the 'hundred' was recognized, so close was the outline likeness between the institutions of the mother country and those of her crude child in the west. The...
Página 110 - The division of jurisdiction between the circuit and district courts is effected by act of Congress ; and, inasmuch as Congress has not seen fit to vest in the courts complete jurisdiction over all cases arising under the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, but has given to each court power in certain specified cases, and left the rest in abeyance, it would be impossible to give in brief compass a detailed account of the jurisdiction of the several courts. It must suffice for present...
Página 63 - Equity jurisprudence may properly be said to be that portion of remedial justice which is exclusively administered by a court of equity, as contradistinguished from that portion of...
Página 69 - ... since the actual execution of the great majority of the laws does not rest with them but with the local officers chosen by the towns and counties and bound to the central authorities of the state by no real bonds of responsibility whatever. Throughout all the states there is a significant distinction, a real separation, between ' state' and
Página 40 - Catholic emancipation, parliamentary reform, reform of municipal corporations, the repeal of the corn laws, the admission of the Jews to Parliament, the disestablishment of the Irish church, the alteration of the Irish land laws, the establishment of national education, the introduction of the ballot, and the reform of the criminal law. Of these every one except the corn laws and the abolition of slavery would have been under our system, so far as they could be dealt with at all, subjects for state...
Página 118 - President from any but the most formal and ineffectual utterance of perfunctory advice, our federal executive and legislature have been shut off from co-operation and mutual confidence to an extent to which no other modern system furnishes a parallel. In all other modern governments the heads of the administrative departments are given the right to sit in the legislative body and to take part in its proceedings. The legislature and executive are thus associated in such a way that the ministers of...
Página 15 - But nothing in progression can rest on its original plan. We may as well think of rocking a grown 15 man in the cradle of an infant. Therefore as the colonies prospered and increased to a numerous and mighty people, spreading over a very great tract of the globe ; it was natural that they should attribute to assemblies, so respectable in their formal constitution, some part of the dignity of the 20 great nations which they represented.