War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States: Military Arrests, Reconstruction and Military Government : Also, Now First Published, War Claims of Aliens : with Notes on the Acts of the Executive and Legislative Departments During Our Civil War, and a Collection of Cases Decided in the National Courts |
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... penalties . 84 84 84 85 86 86 87 Ex post facto laws prohibited - bills of pains and penalties , as well as attainders , unconstitutional . Attainders in the Colonies and States . Bills of attainder , how recognized . 888 = 89 91 CHAPTER ...
... penalties . 84 84 84 85 86 86 87 Ex post facto laws prohibited - bills of pains and penalties , as well as attainders , unconstitutional . Attainders in the Colonies and States . Bills of attainder , how recognized . 888 = 89 91 CHAPTER ...
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... penalty . The power to do the one by no means negatives the power to do the other . If Congress should discharge the obligations of slaves to render labor and service , by passing a law to that effect , such law would supersede and ...
... penalty . The power to do the one by no means negatives the power to do the other . If Congress should discharge the obligations of slaves to render labor and service , by passing a law to that effect , such law would supersede and ...
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... penalties may be enforced ; that every armed foe may be swept out of the country by military power . Yet they entertain a vague apprehension that something in the constitution takes away from these military proceedings , in suppressing ...
... penalties may be enforced ; that every armed foe may be swept out of the country by military power . Yet they entertain a vague apprehension that something in the constitution takes away from these military proceedings , in suppressing ...
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... penalties attached to either of these characters . * The right of a country to treat its rebel- lious citizens both as belligerents and as subjects has long been recognized in Europe , and by the Supreme Court of the United States . In ...
... penalties attached to either of these characters . * The right of a country to treat its rebel- lious citizens both as belligerents and as subjects has long been recognized in Europe , and by the Supreme Court of the United States . In ...
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... penalties of treason , it will subject them to the liabilities of the belligerent character . The privileges and the disadvantages are correlative . But it is by no means conceded that the government may not exercise the right of ...
... penalties of treason , it will subject them to the liabilities of the belligerent character . The privileges and the disadvantages are correlative . But it is by no means conceded that the government may not exercise the right of ...
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Page 404 - Navy of the United States, in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people...
Page 404 - St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina...
Page 404 - Now, therefore, I, ABRAHAM LINCOLN, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-in-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and Government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion...
Page 269 - The United States shall guaranty to every State in this Union a republican form of government, and shall protect each of them against invasion; and on application of the legislature, or of the executive (when the legislature cannot be convened) against domestic violence.
Page 256 - Executive. And it is suggested as not improper, that, in constructing a loyal State Government in any State, the name of the State, the boundary, the subdivisions, the Constitution, and the general code of laws, as before the rebellion, be maintained, subject only to the modifications made necessary by the conditions hereinbefore stated, and such others, if any, not contravening said conditions, and which may be deemed expedient by those framing the new State Government.
Page 402 - That, on the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, all persons held as slaves within any State or designated part of a State, the people whereof shall then be in rebellion against the United States, shall be then, thenceforward, and forever, free...
Page 396 - Resolved, That the United States ought to co-operate with any State which may adopt gradual abolishment of slavery, giving to such State pecuniary aid, to be used by such State, in its discretion, to compensate for the inconveniences, public and private, produced by such change of system.
Page 407 - That if any person shall hereafter incite, set on foot, assist, or engage in any rebellion or insurrection against the authority of the United States, or the laws thereof, or shall give aid or comfort thereto, or shall engage in, or give aid and comfort to, any such existing rebellion or insurrection...
Page 116 - America;" nor shall any punishment or proceedings under said act be so construed as to work a forfeiture of the real estate of the offender beyond his natural life.
Page 255 - I, , do solemnly swear, in presence of Almighty God, that I will henceforth faithfully support, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States and the Union of the States thereunder; and that I will in like manner abide by and faithfully support all acts of Congress passed during the existing rebellion with reference to slaves, so long and so far as not repealed, modified, or held void by Congress or by decision of the Supreme Court...