A Familiar Exposition of the Constitution of the United States: Containing a Brief Commentary on Every Clause, Explaining the True Nature, Reasons, and Objects Thereof ; Designed for the Use of School Libraries and General Readers. With an Appendix, Containing Important Public Documents, Illustrative of the ConstitutionHarper & Brothers, 1847 - 372 pagina's |
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... become inhabitants of the Colonies . The two companies were authorized to engage , as colonists , any of the subjects of England , who should be disposed to emi- grate . All persons , being English subjects , and inhabit- ants in the ...
... become inhabitants of the Colonies . The two companies were authorized to engage , as colonists , any of the subjects of England , who should be disposed to emi- grate . All persons , being English subjects , and inhabit- ants in the ...
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... become inhabitants of the Colonies . The two companies were authorized to engage , as colonists , any of the subjects of England , who should be disposed to emi- grate . All persons , being English subjects , and inhabit- ants in the ...
... become inhabitants of the Colonies . The two companies were authorized to engage , as colonists , any of the subjects of England , who should be disposed to emi- grate . All persons , being English subjects , and inhabit- ants in the ...
Pagina 27
... become States , and capable of being dissolved , at any time , by the secession of any one of them . It grew out of the exigencies and dangers of the times ; and , extending only to the maintenance REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT . 27.
... become States , and capable of being dissolved , at any time , by the secession of any one of them . It grew out of the exigencies and dangers of the times ; and , extending only to the maintenance REVOLUTIONARY GOVERNMENT . 27.
Pagina 41
... . The public debt was left wholly unpro- vided for ; and a disregard of the public faith had become so common a reproach among us , that it almost ceased and to attract observation . Indeed , in some of the 4 * EXPOSITION OF PREAMBLE . 41.
... . The public debt was left wholly unpro- vided for ; and a disregard of the public faith had become so common a reproach among us , that it almost ceased and to attract observation . Indeed , in some of the 4 * EXPOSITION OF PREAMBLE . 41.
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... becomes practically false in its application . Each State may have assigned to it a relative proportion of Representa- tives , up to a given number , the whole being divisible by some common divisor ; but the fraction of population be ...
... becomes practically false in its application . Each State may have assigned to it a relative proportion of Representa- tives , up to a given number , the whole being divisible by some common divisor ; but the fraction of population be ...
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Pagina 258 - Congress shall make. 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury ; and such trial shall be held in the State where the said crimes shall have been committed ; but when not committed within any State, the trial shall be at such place, or places, as the Congress may by law have directed.
Pagina 274 - Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the tribute of patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great pillars of human happiness, these firmest props of the duties of men and citizens.
Pagina 132 - And in the just preservation of rights and property, it is understood and declared that no law ought ever to be made or have force in the said territory that shall in any manner whatever interfere with or affect private contracts, or engagements, bona fide, and without fraud previously formed.
Pagina 255 - The congress of the united states shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six Months, and shall publish the Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy...
Pagina 255 - Journal of their proceedings monthly, except such parts thereof relating to treaties, alliances or military operations, as in their judgment require secrecy; and the yeas and nays of the delegates of each state on any question shall be entered on the Journal, when it is desired by any delegate; and the delegates of a state, or any of them...
Pagina 267 - ... employed, to weaken in your minds the conviction of this truth ; as this is the point in your political fortress against which the batteries of internal and external enemies will be most constantly and actively, though often covertly and insidiously, directed, — it is of infinite moment that you should properly estimate the immense value of your national union to your collective and individual happiness...
Pagina 273 - The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism. But this leads at length to a more formal and permanent despotism. The disorders and miseries which result gradually incline the minds of men to seek security and repose in the absolute power of an individual...
Pagina 264 - ... united states in congress assembled can be consulted nor shall any state grant commissions to any ships or vessels of war, nor letters of marque or reprisal, except it be after a declaration of war by the united states in congress assembled, and then only against the kingdom or state and the subjects thereof, against which...
Pagina 263 - ... nor shall any body of forces be kept up by any state, in time of peace, except such number only, as in the judgment of the united states, in congress assembled, shall be deemed requisite to garrison the forts necessary for the defence of such state...
Pagina 267 - Here, perhaps, I ought to stop. But a solicitude for your welfare, which cannot end but with my life, and the apprehension of danger, natural to that solicitude, urge me, on an occasion like the present, to offer to your solemn contemplation...