Essentials in Civil Government: A Text-book for Use in SchoolsAmerican Book Company, 1915 - 251 páginas |
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... Majority , Plurality — The Right of Holding Office . LESSON XI CITIZENSHIP : DUTIES OF CITIZENS A Few Words about Duty - Obedience to the Law - Defense of One's Country - Earning a Living - The Duty of Study- ing Political Questions ...
... Majority , Plurality — The Right of Holding Office . LESSON XI CITIZENSHIP : DUTIES OF CITIZENS A Few Words about Duty - Obedience to the Law - Defense of One's Country - Earning a Living - The Duty of Study- ing Political Questions ...
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... that citizen , but he debauches society . A bribe giver is a public enemy . What shall we say of a bribe taker ? Is he better or worse than a bribe giver ? Counting the Vote ; Majority , Plurality . - Immediately 32 52 CITIZENSHIP.
... that citizen , but he debauches society . A bribe giver is a public enemy . What shall we say of a bribe taker ? Is he better or worse than a bribe giver ? Counting the Vote ; Majority , Plurality . - Immediately 32 52 CITIZENSHIP.
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... majority of the votes is required to elect . By a majority is meant more than half of all the votes cast . It often happens , when there are three or more candidates for the same office , that no one has a majority of all the votes . In ...
... majority of the votes is required to elect . By a majority is meant more than half of all the votes cast . It often happens , when there are three or more candidates for the same office , that no one has a majority of all the votes . In ...
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... majority or a plurality of votes ? What is the smallest number of votes that would elect in this case if a majority were required ? What does the word minority mean ? 2. Discuss the evil effects of bribery . 3. Should the office seek ...
... majority or a plurality of votes ? What is the smallest number of votes that would elect in this case if a majority were required ? What does the word minority mean ? 2. Discuss the evil effects of bribery . 3. Should the office seek ...
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... thought it was wrong ? 7. Of the duties mentioned in the lesson which stands first in im- portance ? Which stands second ? Which third ? Which fourth ? XII . THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT : MAJORITY RULE " DUTIES OF CITIZENS 59.
... thought it was wrong ? 7. Of the duties mentioned in the lesson which stands first in im- portance ? Which stands second ? Which third ? Which fourth ? XII . THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT : MAJORITY RULE " DUTIES OF CITIZENS 59.
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Essentials in Civil Government: A Text-book for Use in Schools Samuel Eagle Forman Vista completa - 1908 |
Essentials in Civil Government: A Text-book for Use in Schools Samuel Eagle Forman Vista completa - 1908 |
Essentials in Civil Government: A Text-book for Use in Schools Samuel Eagle Forman Vista completa - 1915 |
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Página 232 - ... Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. 2. No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. 3. [Representatives and direct taxes...
Página 236 - ... 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 hereinbefore directed to be taken.
Página 240 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 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.
Página 241 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Página 240 - 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 245 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of 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...
Página 234 - 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 246 - States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Página 30 - ... on the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation : "I do solemnly swear [or affirm...
Página 31 - The legislative authority of the state shall be vested in a legislative assembly, consisting of a senate and house of representatives, but the people reserve to themselves power to propose laws and amendments to the constitution and to enact or reject the same at the polls, independent of the legislative assembly...