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.
To Interstate Commerce Commission...
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
States may not discriminate against foreign products in the laying of
taxes___
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)_
12703°-S. Doc. 157, 68-1-54
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.......
Regulation of rents in.....
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
courts_
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______
See "Food and drugs."
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....
Railroad Labor Board act held not to take property without_____
War-time prohibition did not result in deprivation of property with-
Zoning ordinance held invalid as depriving owners of their property
without due process---
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..
No State shall deprive any person of life, liberty, or property without
Due process of law-fifth amendment. Comparison with fourteenth amend-
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
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. No tax or..----
Duty of tonnage without the consent of Congress.
Duties on tonnage. Definition of tonnage duties_
Dying declarations. 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 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___.
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...
Electors for members of the House of Representatives.
For members of the Senate, qualifications of. The seventeenth amend-
ment...
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___.
|