Marque and reprisal. To grant letters of marque and reprisal would lead
directly to war; the power of declaring which is expressly given to
Congress
Marriage and divorce. Marriage contracts are not within the prohibition
of the contracts clause----
Congress has no power to regulate marriage or divorce in the States__
Any American woman who marries a foreigner shall take the na-
tionality of her husband.___
The rule dispensing with personal service of process on defendant in
proceedings in rem against his property applies to a bill for divorce.
Rule dispensing with personal service within the State of process on
defendant in proceedings in rem against his property within the
State applies to a bill for divorce and alimony....
Statute limiting dower rights of nonresident wife does not violate
the fourteenth amendment..
Martial law. Definition of____
Maryland entitled to six Representatives in the First Congress__-
Massachusetts entitled to eight Representatives in the First Congress____
Maternity act. Federal interference with State rights in connection with
the constitutionality of the so-called maternity act..
Measures. Congress shall fix the standard of weights and..
Meeting of Congress. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every
year, and such meeting shall be on the first Monday in December,
unless they shall by law appoint a different day----
Members of Congress and of State legislatures shall be bound by oath or
affirmation to support the Constitution..
Mileage books. State statute requiring railroads to offer mileage books for
sale at a stipulated price held invalid____
Statute requiring railroads to sell 1,000-mile tickets at less than
regular rates is a denial of equal protection of the laws...
Militia to execute the laws, suppress insurrections, and repel invasions.
Congress shall provide for calling forth the...
Congress shall provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining the..
Congress shall provide for governing such part of them as may be
employed by the United States...
Reserving to the States the appointment of the officers and the right to
train the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress..
A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State,
the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed__
Powers of Congress to provide for calling....
Minors. Function of parens patriae in relation to minors held in detention
by private individuals..
Misdemeanors. The President, Vice President, and all civil officers shall
be removed on impeachment for and conviction of treason, bribery,
or other high crimes, and
Money. Shall be published from time to time. A regular statement and
account of receipts and expenditures of public - - - - -
For raising and supporting armies. No appropriation of money shall
be for a longer term than two years...
The power of Congress to borrow money is for the safety and welfare
of the whole people and is not to be construed in a restricted sense..
Congress may make treasury notes legal tender, and they may be
made a substitute for money..
Where the contract is to pay in a particular kind of money as "gold,'
or "specie," it can not be discharged in legal tender notes-----
Under its power over money and revenue, Congress can establish a
national bank and subscribe to its stock, although it be a corpora-
tion organized for profit..
Cases of general applicability__
Power of Congress to issue Treasury notes. --
Notes kept in one State for money loaned by a nonresident given and
made payable in another State are not subject to tax as property in
first State..
Money on the credit of the United States. Congress shall have power to
borrow....
Regulate the value thereof and of foreign coin. Congress shall have
power to coin...............
Shall not be drawn from the Treasury but in consequence of appro-
priations made by law.....
Monopolies. Is the power to control manufacture of refined sugar a
monopoly over a necessity of life?____
Moot questions. Appeal by Government where court is without power to
set aside the verdict-----
Mormon Church. The revocation of the charter of the Mormon Church
was a constitutional exercise of the power of Congress over Ter-
ritories.
Mortgagor and mortgagee. Regulation of relations between mortgagor and
mortgagee under fourteenth amendment_____.
Motion pictures. Statute creating a board of censors of moving picture
films..
Copyright act of Congress is valid as applied to...
State statute creating a board of censors of motion pictures held valid_
Motor vehicles. A State may require persons engaged in the business of
carrying passengers for hire in motor vehicles to file security or in-
surance for payment of judgments for death or injury---
See also "Automobiles."
National defense act. Interpretation of the act of June 3, 1916...
National flag. Use of national flag for advertising prohibited.
Nations. Congress shall have power to regulate commerce with foreign..
Congress shall provide for punishing offenses against the law of.....
Natural-born citizen, or a citizen at the adoption of the Constitution, shall
be eligible to the office of President. No person except a___
Natural gas. See "Oil and gas."
Naturalization. Congress shall have power to establish a uniform rule of..
Act of Congress authorizing the impeachment of natu-
ralization certificates____
Congress may provide for the punishment of perjury committed in a
naturalization proceeding-----
Naturalized in the United States, and subject to their jurisdiction, shall
be citizens of the United States and of the State in which they
reside. All persons born or...
Nature of the Constitution. Leading general cases..
Naval forces. Congress shall make rules and regulations for the govern-
ment and regulation of the land and...-----
Congress has power to regulate under commerce clause_
Shores of navigable waters and their soils under them, were reserved
to the States under the tenth amendment-----
Navigation. Control over navigation is necessarily incidental to the power
to regulate commerce...
Power to regulate commerce includes navigation___
Act of Congress requiring that conveyances of vessels be recorded held
valid___.
Act of Congress limiting liability of vessel owners.
Obstructions to navigation and their removal..
Vessels are not engaged in purely domestic commerce in their voyages
between ports of the same State requiring them to go beyond the
marine league.............
The interstate commerce act does not cover rates for water trans-
portation unconnected with transportation by railroad...
Navigable waters wholly within a State are not outside of State
jurisdiction so long as Congress does not interfere... ---
A contract between States to keep open the navigation of a river
when sanctioned by Congress, becomes a law of the union..................
State statutes granting to certain persons the exclusive navigation
of waters within the State__.
A vessel owned by a resident of a particular State is taxable under
the authority of that State_____
A city can not make a charge for the privilege of navigating a river__
Municipal ordinance exacting a license fee for the privilege of navi-
gating a stream within the State, is invalid___
A vessel lying in an open roadstead of a foreign country is upon the
high seas...
Federal courts have admiralty jurisdiction over cases of collision
occurring upon navigable waters...
Leaving piles in the bed of a tide river within the body of a county
so that a ship is thereby injured is a tort cognizable in admiralty..
A State may bring a suit in equity for the removal of a bridge which
obstructs navigation_-_-.
Navy. Congress shall have power to provide and maintain a....
Delegation of legislative power to the President in connection with
sale of naval vessels-----
Navy regulations have the force of law_-_.
Negotiable instruments. Are not instruments of commerce..
Negroes. Railroad accommodations for passengers of different races----
State law requiring interurban railroads to supply separate accom-
modations for negroes held unconstitutional _ _ _ _
State regulations requiring separate accommodations for negroes on
railroads held valid as to intrastate transportation____.
Emancipation of slaves was valid under the war power..
Federal court has no jurisdiction of suit in equity to compel State
board to enroll names of negroes on voting lists...
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Negroes. State statute which implies merely a legal distinction between
the white and colored races has no tendency to destroy the legal
equality.
Act of Congress declaring that all persons regardless of race or color
are entitled to equal enjoyment of facilities of inns, public convey-
ances, etc., held unconstitutional_____
Dred Scott case and Missouri compromise..
The equality of the races contemplated by the fourteenth amend-
ment was not social equality----
An ordinance forbidding colored persons to occupy houses in blocks
where the greater number of houses are occupied by white persons,
held unconstitutional_____.
The benefits of the fourteenth amendment are not restricted to the
colored race_ -
Heavier punishments for interracial offenses_-
Negroes as citizens in apportionment for Representatives in Congress -
Negroes-race distinctions. Exclusion of negroes from juries___
Separate schools for white and colored children....
Separate coaches for white and colored races.-
Imposing heavier punishments for interracial offenses..
New Hampshire entitled to three Representatives in the First Congress..
New Jersey entitled to four Representatives in the First Congress----
Newspapers. Circulation of newspapers may be favored by low postal
New States may be admitted by Congress into this Union. But no new
State shall be formed within the jurisdiction of another State_____
Nor shall any State be formed by the junction of two or more States,
or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures and of
Congress.
Nominations for office by the President. The President shall nominate,
and, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, shall ap-
point ambassadors and other public officers___
He may grant commissions to fill vacancies that happen in the re-
cess of the Senate, which shall expire at the end of their next session_
North Carolina entitled to five Representatives in the First Congress. -
Notice and opportunity to be heard. In case of lunacy---
Number of electors for President and Vice President in each State shall be
equal to the number of Senators and Representatives to which
such State may be entitled in Congress.-
Oath of office of the President of the United States. Form of the_____
Oath or affirmation. No warrants shall be issued but upon probable
cause, supported by....
Oath or affirmation to support the Constitution. Senators and Representa-
tives, members of State legislatures, executive and judicial officers
of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by ____
But no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification for
office.
The Senators when sitting to try impeachment shall be on.
Obiter dicta. Where there are two grounds upon either of which an ap-
pellate court may rest its decision, and it adopts both, the ruling
on neither is obiter dictum____
General expressions are to be taken in connection with the case in
which they are used___
The power over slavery was considered by a majority of the court
to belong to the States, though the point was not necessary to a
decision of the case-
"Proceedings of a court-martial are a bar to subsequent indictments
in courts of common law for the same offense" referred to as a
dictum....
Objections. If he shall not approve it, the President shall return the bill
to the House in which it originated with his..
Obligation of contracts. No State shall pass any ex post facto law, or
law impairing the....
Obligations incurred in aid of insurrection or rebellion against the United
States to be held illegal and void. All debts or---
Obscene publications. Act of Congress, excluding obscene publications
from interstate transportation, held valid_---
Occupations. Statutes regulating the pursuit of occupations under the
fourteenth amendment.----.
Offense. No person shall be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb for the
Offenses against the law of nations.
Congress shall provide for punishing--
Offenses against the United States, except in cases of impeachment. The
President may grant reprieves or pardons for..
Offenses statutes relating to. Repeal of statute without saving clause___
Carrying out agreement made before enactment of statute____
Increasing punishment for subsequent offenses----
Office, civil or military under the United States, or any State, who had
taken an oath as a legislative, executive, or judicial officer of the
United States, or of any State, and afterwards engaged in insurrec-
tion or rebellion. No person shall be a Senator, Representative,
or presidential elector, or hold any....
Office during the term of four years. The President and Vice President
shall hold..
Of trust or profit under the United States shall be an elector for
President and Vice President. No person holding an____
Office of President, in case of his removal, death, resignation, or inability,
shall devolve on the Vice President. The powers and duties of
the_..
Office under the United States. No person shall be a member of either
House while holding any civil...
No Senator or Representative shall be appointed to any office under
the United States which shall have been created, or its emoluments
increased, during the term for which he is elected...
Or title 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 of any present, emolument_-_.
Offices becoming vacant in the recess of the Senate may be filled by the
President, the commissions to expire at the end of the next session_
Officers. The House of Representatives shall choose their Speaker and
other....
The Senate, in the absence of the Vice President, shall choose a Presi-
dent pro tempore, and also their other
Officers in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of
departments. Congress may vest the appointment of inferior____
Officers of the Army. Appointment of during recess of Senate...
Definition of..
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