The National Handbook of Facts and Figures: Historical, Statistical, Documentary, Political, from the Formation of the Government to the Present Time. With a Full Chronology of the Rebellion |
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... PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S VETO .. 386 THE BANKRUPTCY ACT .... 398 STATISTICS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES .. 403 THE POPULAR ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1860 AND 1864 ....... 406 NATIONAL HAND - BOOK . DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . IN viii CONTENTS .
... PRESIDENT JOHNSON'S VETO .. 386 THE BANKRUPTCY ACT .... 398 STATISTICS OF THE STATES AND TERRITORIES .. 403 THE POPULAR ELECTORAL VOTE OF 1860 AND 1864 ....... 406 NATIONAL HAND - BOOK . DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE . IN viii CONTENTS .
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... electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature . 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not 18 NATIONAL HAND - BOOK . CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED ...
... electors in each State shall have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature . 2. No person shall be a representative who shall not 18 NATIONAL HAND - BOOK . CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED ...
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... 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 . 5. No person except a natural - born citizen , CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . 29.
... 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 . 5. No person except a natural - born citizen , CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES . 29.
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... 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 ...
... 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 ...
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... electors appointed ; and if no person have such a majority , then from the persons having the highest number , not exceeding three , on the list of those voted for as President , the House of Represen tatives shall choose immediately ...
... electors appointed ; and if no person have such a majority , then from the persons having the highest number , not exceeding three , on the list of those voted for as President , the House of Represen tatives shall choose immediately ...
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Page 199 - And by virtue of the power and for the purpose aforesaid, I do order and declare that all persons held as slaves within said designated States and parts of States are, and henceforward shall be, free ; and that the Executive Government of the United States, including the military and naval authorities thereof, will recognize and maintain the freedom of said persons.
Page 23 - They shall, in all cases except treason, felony and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place.
Page 51 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Page 20 - ... 2. Immediately after they shall be assembled, in consequence of the first election, they shall be divided, as equally as may be, into three classes. The seats of the senators of the first class, shall be vacated at the expiration of the second year, of the second class...
Page 27 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 74 - ... the propitious smiles of Heaven can never be expected on a nation that disregards the eternal rules of order and right, which Heaven itself has ordained ; and since the preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as finally staked, on the experiment intrusted to the hands of the American people.
Page 77 - The period for a new election of a citizen, to administer the executive Government of the United States, being not far distant, and the time actually arrived, when your thoughts must be employed in designating the person, who is to be clothed with that important trust, it appears to me proper, especially as it may conduce to a more distinct expression of the public voice, that I should now apprise you of the resolution I have formed, to decline being considered among the number of those, out of whom...
Page 210 - The power confided to me will be used to hold, occupy, and possess the property and places belonging to the Government and to collect the duties and imposts; but beyond what may be necessary for these objects, there will be no invasion, no using of force against or among the people anywhere.
Page 224 - Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other. It may seem strange that any men should dare to ask a just God's assistance in wringing their bread from the sweat of other men's faces, but let us judge not, that we be not judged.
Page 85 - Hence, likewise, they will avoid the necessity of those overgrown military establishments, which, under any form of government, are inauspicious to liberty, and which are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.