Defense, promote the general welfare, etc. To insure the common. Delaware entitled to one Representative in the First Congress- Delay. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, engage in war unless actually invaded, or in such imminent danger as will not admit of.... Delay. State statute authorizing the recovery of a penalty for delay in giving notice to a consignee of the arrival of freight at destination is invalid.._.
Delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the States, are reserved to the States, or to the people. The powers not.. Delegation of power. Federal water power act held not unconstitutional__ Congress can not delegate to the District of Columbia power to regulate commerce between the District and the States... Power to adjust claims under a treaty conferred on Secretary of Treasury
Congress may delegate to States power to make regulations respecting public lands___
The Federal Constitution is but a delegation of powers--- Judicial powers in the selection of citizens for jury service may be conferred on jury commissioners---
Delegation of power to States. Congress has power to permit the exercise of the power to regulate interstate commerce by the States. Delegation of power to the President. Act of Congress of February 28, 1795, delegating to the President power to call forth the militia, held constitutional__
To suspend the provisions of a tariff act
Delegation of power to regulate commerce. To District of Columbia.
Delivery. Delivery of freight and express matter on surrender and can- cellation of bills of lading...
Rule of a railroad commission authorizing the recovery of a penalty for failure to deliver freight, is an unreasonable burden upon interstate
Deny or disparage others retained by the people. The enumeration in the Constitution of certain rights shall not be construed to...... Departments. Congress may by law vest the appointment of inferior officers in the heads of _ _ _ _ _
Departments upon any subject relating to their duties. The President may require the written opinion of the principal officers in each of the executive.
Powers confined by the Constitution to one department can not be exercised by another____
Deprivation. The Constitution contains no definition of the word "de- privation".
Discrimination. Discrimination by States against foreign products is prohibited.
States may not discriminate against foreign products in the laying of taxes--
Discrimination under fourteenth amendment. Against individuals.. Burdening right to challenge validity of statute...
Personal service on resident, constructive service on nonresident Requiring bond in attachment against resident___
Direct tax shall be laid unless in proportion to the census or enumeration. No capitation or other......
Direct taxes and Representatives, how apportioned among the several States. (Repealed by the second section of the fourteenth amend- ment, see p. 227)__
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Disability. But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such.......
No person shall be a Senator or Representative in Congress, or Presidential elector, or hold any office, civil or military, under the United States, or any State, who, having previously taken an oath as a legislative, executive, or judicial officer of the United States, or of any State, to support the Constitution, afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States.... Disability of the President and Vice President. Provisions in case of the.. Disagreement between the two Houses as to the time of adjournment, the President may adjourn them to such time as he may think proper. In case of.......... Disorderly behavior. Each House may punish its members for........... And with the concurrence of two-thirds expel a member for............. Disparage others retained by the people. The enumeration in the Constitu- tion of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or... Dismissal. Decree of dismissal, not on the merits, is no bar to subsequent suit in court of another jurisdiction___ Disqualification. No Senator or Representative shall, during the time for which he was elected, be appointed to any office under the United States which shall have been created or its emoluments increased during such term....
No person holding any office under the United States shall be a mem- ber of either House during his continuance in office......... No person shall be a member of either House, presidential elector, or hold any office under the United States, or any State, who, having previously sworn to support the Constitution, afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion..........
But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability.
District of Columbia. Congress shall exercise exclusive legislation in all cases over the.............
Congress had right to vest District of Columbia courts with power of appointing commissioners....
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia is a United States court__ Justices of the peace of the District of Columbia are judicial officers, but are not inferior United States courts...
The authority of a decision of the Supreme Court upholding a rule of a District of Columbia court is not lessened by the former court's failure to give the grounds for its decision.......
Fees allowed to justices of the peace can not be diminished during their continuance in office. ----
The District of Columbia is not a State within the judicial clause of the Constitution___
Act of Congress dispensing with jury in prosecutions by informa- tion in police court....
District of Columbia. Guaranty of jury trial applies to District of Colum- bia and Territories_
Act of Congress, legislating for the District of Columbia, providing for punishment "of all suspicious persons" held invalid__ Fifth amendment is applicable to the District of Columbia_ Assessments for local improvements..
Jurisdiction of Public Utilities Commission.......
Lower gas rate for the Federal and District Governments than for private consumers..
Sixth amendment is applicable to trials in District of Columbia
Applicability of fourteenth amendment to the District of Columbia__ Dockyards. Congress shall have exclusive authority over all places pur-
chased for the erection of___
Domestic tranquillity, provide for the common defense, etc. To insure.. Domestic relations. Whole subject belongs to the laws of the States. Domestic violence. The United States shall protect each State against invasion and_____.
Double jeopardy. Applicable to criminal prosecutions in Philippines___ A person committing an act with respect to intoxicating liquors which is denounced as a crime by both national and State sover- eignties may be punished under the law of each sovereignty. Drugs. See "Food and drugs."
Due process. No want of due process of law in connection with the grant of power to Congress to lay and collect taxes.. Legislation to exclude aliens or subjecting them to infamous punish- ment or forfeiture of property should provide for a judicial trial__ Federal act requiring carrier to obtain permission before issuing stocks and bonds does not deny...
State statute requiring railroads to sell mileage books at a stipulated price held a deprivation of property without due process. - - No State can obtain in the courts of other States full faith and credit for its judicial proceedings if they are wanting in due process of law..
Definition given by Daniel Webster in the Dartmouth College case.. Executive order declaring void a contract of the Government held deprivation of property without due process___
Commitment for contempt in bankruptcy proceedings not without due process of law_____
Proceeding to exclude Chinese without presence of friends or rela- tives is without due process of law.
Personal service in State not necessary to judgment in rem....... Due process of law. No person shall be compelled, in any criminal case, to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property without___.
Zoning ordinance held invalid as depriving owners of their property without due process-
Railroad Labor Board act held not to take property without__. War-time prohibition did not result in deprivation of property with- out due process-
No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without Due process of law-fifth amendment. Comparison with fourteenth amend- ment.
Restraint on executive, legislative, and judicial departments... Operation in acquired territory.
Due process of law-fourteenth amendment. Definition of due process
Duties and powers. In case of the disability of the President and Vice- President, Congress shall declare what officer shall act.......
Duties and powers of the office of President, in case of his death, removal, or inability to act, shall devolve on the Vice President.. Duties, imposts, and excises. Congress shall have power to lay and collect
Death duties, estate taxes, and succession taxes... Duties in another State. Vessels clearing in the ports of one State shall not be obliged to pay --
On imports and exports, without the consent of Congress, except where necessary for executing its inspection laws. No State shall lay any
Duties on imports or exports. The net produce of all such duties shall be for the use of the Treasury of the United States... All laws laying such duties shall be subject to the revision and control of Congress..
Duties shall be laid on articles exported from any State.
Duty of tonnage without the consent of Congress. No State shall lay any Duties on tonnage. Definition of tonnage duties.
The admission of dying declarations is an exception to the rule of the sixth amendment..
The fourteenth amendment does not extend to, and override public rights existing in the form of servitudes or easements, held by the courts. - - - -
When a person has acquired title to property with the assurance that his easements were secured by contract, such rights are property rights within the meaning of the Constitution..
Election of President and Vice President. Congress may determine the day for the.__.
Shall be the same throughout the United States. The day of the____ Elections. Act of Congress requiring circuit courts to appoint supervisors of elections held valid_.--
Elections and meetings of Congress.
Shall be prescribed in each State by the legislature_
Power of Congress over elections___
Elections for Senators and Representatives. Returns and qualifications of its own members. Each House shall be judge of the_____.
The legislatures of the States shall prescribe the times, places, and manner of holding____
But Congress may, at any time, alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing Senators...
Electors. Congress may determine the time of choosing the electors and the day on which they shall give their votes...
Which day shall be the same throughout the United States___ The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote by ballot for President and Vice President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves.......
Electors shall name, in their ballots, the person voted for as President; and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice President__ They shall make distinct lists of the persons voted for as President and of persons voted for as Vice President, which they shall sign and certify, and transmit sealed to the seat of government, directed to the President of the Senate....
No person having taken an oath as a legislative, executive, or judicial officer of the United States, or of any State, and afterwards engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the United States, shall be an elector....
But Congress may, by a vote of two-thirds of each House, remove such disability
Qualifications of... For members of the Senate, qualifications of. The seventeenth amend- ment__
Electors for members of the House of Representatives.
For President and Vice President. 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__.
But no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States shall be appointed an elector____ Electoral College. State acts individually through its electoral college in vote for President___
Embargo. Congress has the power to impose embargo in interstate com-
Emancipation of any slave shall be held to be illegal and void. Claims for the loss or...
Emergency Fleet Corporation. Is a corporation against which fraudulent
claims are forbidden.............
Emit bills of credit. No State shall..
Emolument of any kind from any king, prince, or foreign state, without
the consent of Congress. No person holding any office under the United States shall accept any----
Employer and Employee. Liability of carrier for injury or death of em- ployees _ _
Congress may prescribe qualifications, duties, and liabilities of em- ployees engaged in interstate commerce_
Act creating Railroad Labor Board held not to violate right of private contract..
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