The Debates and Proceedings in the Congress of the United States: With an Appendix, Containing Important State Papers and Public Documents, and All the Laws of a Public Nature; with a Copious Index ... [First To] Eighteenth Congress.--first Session: Comprising the Period from [March 3, 1789] to May 27, 1824, Inclusive. Comp. from Authentic MaterialsGales and Seaton, 1852 |
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... ment like ours , to see its citizens adopt , individually , the views , the interests , and the conduct , which their country should pursue , divesting themselves of those passions and partialities which tend to lessen useful ...
... ment like ours , to see its citizens adopt , individually , the views , the interests , and the conduct , which their country should pursue , divesting themselves of those passions and partialities which tend to lessen useful ...
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... ment to the Constitution of the United States , made report , which was read . Mr. DAYTON moved to strike out all which re- spected the appointment of a Vice President . He said the great inducements of the framers of the Constitution ...
... ment to the Constitution of the United States , made report , which was read . Mr. DAYTON moved to strike out all which re- spected the appointment of a Vice President . He said the great inducements of the framers of the Constitution ...
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... ment , or would they have ventured boldly to have broken the Constitution , and , in the language of the honorable gentleman from Virginia , have thrown themselves upon the people for pardon for the breach , and upon Heaven for ...
... ment , or would they have ventured boldly to have broken the Constitution , and , in the language of the honorable gentleman from Virginia , have thrown themselves upon the people for pardon for the breach , and upon Heaven for ...
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... ment can do any of the things that are prohibited jected by the only department of our Government by the Constitution . Nor would they be justifi- competent to the execution of that part of the able in not doing what is positively ...
... ment can do any of the things that are prohibited jected by the only department of our Government by the Constitution . Nor would they be justifi- competent to the execution of that part of the able in not doing what is positively ...
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... ment of the payments of the respective States , of the direct tax , distinguishing the sums received by supervisors , and not paid into the Treasury . Ordered , That it be referred to Messrs . BRAD- LEY , TRACY , and STONE , to consider ...
... ment of the payments of the respective States , of the direct tax , distinguishing the sums received by supervisors , and not paid into the Treasury . Ordered , That it be referred to Messrs . BRAD- LEY , TRACY , and STONE , to consider ...
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Página 685 - 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 481 - The inhabitants of the ceded territory shall be incorporated in the Union of the United States and admitted as soon as possible according to the principles of the federal Constitution to the enjoyment of all the rights, advantages and immunities of citizens of the United States, and in the mean time they shall be maintained and protected in the free enjoyment of their liberty, property and the Religion which they profess.
Página 393 - Parma, the colony or province of Louisiana, with the same extent that it now has in the hands of Spain, and that it had when France possessed it ; and such as it should be after the treaties subsequently entered into between Spain and other states.
Página 253 - The General Assembly, or Legislature, shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years, unless sooner removed by Congress, any three of whom to be a quorum; and the members...
Página 745 - Towards the preservation of your government and the permanency of your present happy state, it is requisite not only that you steadily discountenance irregular oppositions to its acknowledged authority, but also that you resist with care the spirit of innovation upon its principles, however specious the pretexts.
Página 745 - In all the changes to which you may be invited, remember that time and habit are at least as necessary to fix the true character of governments as of other human institutions; that experience is the surest standard by which to test the real tendency of the existing constitution of a country; that facility in changes, upon the credit of mere hypothesis and opinion, exposes to perpetual change, from the endless variety of hypothesis and opinion...
Página 135 - President, the vote shall be taken by States, the representation from each State having one vote...
Página 283 - An act to establish an uniform rule of naturalization, and to repeal the acts heretofore passed on that subject.
Página 213 - 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; they shall name in their ballots the person voted for as president, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as vice...
Página 519 - Resolved, By the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in congress assembled, two-thirds of both houses concurring, that the following articles be proposed to the legislatures of the several States, as amendments to the constitution of the United States...