Consent of the Senate. The President shall have power to make treaties,
by and with the advice and____
The President shall appoint ambassadors, other public ministers and
consuls, judges of the Supreme Court, and all other officers created
by law and not otherwise herein provided for, by and with the
advice and.....
All officers, legislative, executive, and judicial, of the United
States, and of the several States, shall be bound by an oath to sup-
port the......
But no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for any
office or public trust..........
Done in convention by the unanimous consent of the States present,
September 17, 1787..
The manner in which amendments to, may be proposed and ratified.
The President, before he enters upon the execution of his office, shall
take an oath to preserve, protect, and defend the_____
Constitution and the laws made in pursuance thereof, and all treaties made,
or which shall be made, by the United States, shall be the supreme
law of the land. The...
The judges in every State, anything in the constitution or laws of a
State to the contrary notwithstanding, shall be bound thereby.___
Constitution, and then engaged in rebellion against the United States.
Disqualification for office imposed upon certain classes of persons
who took an oath to support the...
Constitution, between the States so ratifying the same.
of the conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the estab-
lishment of the_
Constitution, in the Government of the United States, or in any depart-
ment or officer thereof. Congress shall have power to pass all
laws necessary to the execution of the powers vested by...
Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States. The judicial power
shall extend to all cases arising under the...
Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the State
respectively or to the people. Powers not delegated to the United
States by the.....
Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage
others retained by the people. The enumeration in the..
Constitution shall be as valid under it as under the confederation. All
debts and engagements contracted before the adoption of the____
Constitution shall be eligible to the office of President. No person, except
a natural-born citizen, or a citizen at the time of the adoption of the
Constitution shall be so construed as to prejudice any claims of the United
States, or of any State (in respect to territory or other property of
the United States). Nothing in the...
Constitution, laws, and treaties. As dependent on construction___
Jurisdiction as affected by parties____
Civil and criminal cases....
Rights and obligations conferred and imposed by act of Congress__
When involved in trial in State court....
When other questions of fact or law are involved..
Suit to set aside a patent for land..
Common-law jurisdiction.....
Function of parens patriae in relation to minors...
Constitutional questions. The constitutionality of an act is not involved in
a case where the plaintiff is not affected by its provisions----
Right of interstate carrier to raise constitutionality of State statute..
Where a statute is susceptible of two constructions, by one of which
grave and doubtful constitutional questions arise, and by the other
of which such questions are avoided, the latter should be adopted__
Consuls. Congress may vest power in the President to appoint a vice
consul. ____
Statutes giving consuls criminal jurisdiction are not invalid for not
preserving to an accused person the right to be tried only after pre-
sentment or indictment by a grand jury....
Conspiracy. Conspiracy to defraud United States includes conspiracy to
defraud Emergency Fleet Corporation. -
Act providing punishment for conspiracy, held valid..
In a prosecution for conspiracy the place of trial can be in State and
district where an overt act was performed......---
Act of Congress punishing any two or more persons conspiring to
deprive any person of the equal protection of the laws was not
authorized by the fourteenth amendment__
Contempt. No general power vested in either House to punish for...............
Except in cases of impeachment and where fines are imposed by a
coordinate department of the Government for contempt, President
has power to remit fines, penalties, etc.
A court enforcing obedience to its orders by proceedings for contempt
is not executing the criminal laws_____
Courts have power to punish for disobedience of orders.......
To fine for contempt, imprison for contumacy, etc., are powers which
can not be dispensed with in a court
Proceedings are not an invasion of the right to trial by jury......
Held unconstitutional as encroachment on judicial power in giving
jury trial to persons charged with contempt..
Constitutional freedom of the press will not protect the publisher of
newspaper articles from contempt proceedings where the articles
tend to obstruct the administration of justice__ _ _.
Power to punish for contempt remains in each House of Congress..
Commitment for contempt in bankruptcy proceedings not without
due process of law.............
Commitment for contempt in bankruptcy proceedings does not violate
due process clause of fifth amendment.
Defendant in a contempt case is not entitled to be confronted with
the witnesses against him in open court_ _ _ _ _
In proceedings for contempt a jury is not required by due process of
law.
Striking an answer from the files and condemning, as by default, in
order to punish for contempt, is a denial of due process of law____
Refusal to produce books and papers may be punished as contempt..
Contracts. No State shall pass any ex post facto law, or law impairing
the obligation of....
Contracts. No contract or combination is legal which restrains trade and
commerce by shutting out the operation of the general law of com-
petition...
Congress has the right to make contracts having a proper relation
to interstate commerce-
It was never intended that the power of Congress to regulate com-
merce should be exercised so as to interfere with private contracts. -
For manufacture and sale of goods and for delivery in another State
are interstate contracts---
The right to make a contract in another State than that of the resi-
dence of the purchaser, for the sale and purchase of merchandise,
is beyond question, and the transaction is one of interstate com-
Of railroad companies to furnish cars must be provided for in tariffs..
Right of the Government to reduced rates over land-grant railroad
although contract of sale provided for inspection and rejection at
destination..---
Railroad Labor Board act held not to violate right of private contracts_
The States may prescribe the forms of all commercial contracts- - - -
Executive order declaring void a contract of the Government held a
deprivation of property without due process.
War-risk insurance act as to parties to whom benefits were to be paid
though enacted after insured's death, held not to impair obligation
of the contract___
Statute providing that certain leases shall be valid and enforceable
contracts, held not an attempted exercise of judicial power__
Preventing enforcement of claim against funds in hands of Alien
Property Custodian does not impair contract... --
Officers of the United States have no vested interest or contract
right in office____
In matters of contract the jurisdiction of admiralty courts is limited
to those which are maritime..
Definition of maritime contracts_
In contract matters admiralty jurisdiction depends upon the nature
of the transaction____
The sole essentials of admiralty jurisdiction in a suit in rem for a
breach of contract are that the contract is maritime and that the
property proceeded against is within the lawful custody of the
court...
A contract of marine insurance is a maritime contract within ad-
miralty jurisdiction____
A contract made in one State can not be controlled by the law of
another State____
Effect of statute validating contract held void. ___
Contract made in aid of the rebellion is void and can not be enforced
in the courts_____.
Interstate corporations may be compelled to produce contracts with
coal companies, to be used as evidence before Interstate Com-
merce Commission ____
Contracts in violation of the Constitution..
A valuable contract right is property within the meaning of the
fifth amendment...
Abrogation of private contract by the Government under the war
power--
Suits on State contracts can not be brought in United States courts__
Suit against State to restrain impairment of contract__-.
State statute which makes it a penal offense where a person who has
contracted to labor for another, leaves or abandons the contract,
is invalid. ---
A contract of a seaman is not within the spirit of the thirteenth
amendment..
A State may make connecting carriers agents of each other
on a contract for through carriage - - -
Pecuniary judgment for insured against insurance company for
assessments in excess of maxima fixed by contract, does not involve
unconstitutional exercise of visatorial power over corporations...
An ordinance forbidding colored persons to occupy houses in blocks
where the greater number of houses are occupied by white persons,
held unconstitutional_____.
When a person has acquired title to property with the assurance
that his easements were secured by contract, such rights are prop-
erty rights within the meaning of the Constitution...
Judgment in personam on contract made in another State..
Contracts, definition of.
Necessity for mutual assent....
Contracts of carriage. Obligation of carrier to safely transport freight to
Contracts of States. With the United States..
Controversies to which the United States shall be a party; between two or
more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between
citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State
claiming lands under grants of different States; between a State or
its citizens and foreign States, citizens, or subjects. The judicial
power shall extend to...
Convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present on the 17th
of September, 1787. Adoption of the Constitution in_ _ _ _
Convention for proposing amendments to the Constitution. Congress, on
the application of two-thirds of the legislatures of the States, may
call a
Convene Congress or either House, on extraordinary occasions. The
President may ---
Conventions of nine States shall be sufficient for the establishment of the
Constitution. The ratification of the____.
Conviction in cases of impeachment shall not be had without the con-
currence of two-thirds of the members present_---
Copyrights to authors for limited times. Congress shall have power to
provide for..--.
State statute requiring foreign corporations to file statements, held
unconstitutional _ _ _ _ _
The mere fact that a corporation is engaged in interstate commerce
does not exempt its property from State taxation___
State franchise tax on foreign corporations measured by capital
stock, held invalid as applied to nonresident corporation_____
A State can not, under the guise of a license tax, exclude from its
jurisdiction a foreign corporation engaged in interstate commerce.
Corporate franchises granted by Congress under the commerce
clause are not legitimate subjects of State taxation___
Conspiracy to defraud United States includes conspiracy to defraud
Emergency Fleet Corporation...
The District of Columbia is a municipal corporation although it has
no formal charter...
State statute requiring foreign corporations to file a copy of their
charter does not impair the obligation of a contract----
The imposition of duties and obligations in a corporate charter does
not prevent the legislature from imposing further duties for the
safety of persons and property..
A State can not pass a law taxing a corporation if it would thereby
impair the obligation of any contract____
Public corporations such as counties, towns, and cities, are created
by the authority of the State legislature and invested with sub-
ordinate legislative powers, to be exercised for the public good....
If the foundation of a corporation is private, the corporation itself
is private.--
Contracts between a corporation and individuals do not affect the
right of the State to modify corporate charter..
Domestication of foreign corporations-----
State statute canceling license of foreign corporation when it at-
tempts to assert its right to remove a cause to a Federal court held
invalid...
Action on judgment recovered by State against foreign corporation__
Judgment in action brought by a receiver of insolvent corporation to
enforce legal liability of stockholders is entitled to full faith and
credit in courts of another State___.
Corporations are not citizens within the meaning of Article IV, sec-
tion 2....
Determination of the territorial boundaries of a municipal corpora-
tion is purely a legis'ative function_.
Officer of a corporation may be compelled to produce books and
papers of corporation whose guilt of an offense is under investiga-
tion_..
Corporation tax law of August 5, 1909, held not to violate fourth
amendment.__
Interstate corporations may be compelled to produce contracts with
coal companies, to be used as evidence before Interstate Commerce
Commission...
A corporation is not a person within the meaning and protection of
the fifth amendment...
Due process clause of fifth amendment applies to corporations as
well as to natural persons- - -
Income-tax provisions of act of October 3, 1913, do not deprive a cor-
poration of property without due process of law..
Franchise of a private corporation is property which can not be taken
for public use without compensation..
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