The Political Grammar of the United States: Or, A Complete View of the Theory and Practice of the General and State Governments, with the Relations Between Them |
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... Senate and House of Rep- resentatives . §36 . Whenever power is vested in a representative body , it is usually divided between a body of direct rep- resentatives and one more remote and differently consti- tuted . Thus , in Great ...
... Senate and House of Rep- resentatives . §36 . Whenever power is vested in a representative body , it is usually divided between a body of direct rep- resentatives and one more remote and differently consti- tuted . Thus , in Great ...
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... Senate inserted a provision , making the number for a single representative a divisor of 1 Pitkin's Civil Hist . 351 . D 2 Journals of Congress , 1832 . the whole representative population of the United States , and THE UNITED STATES . 37.
... Senate inserted a provision , making the number for a single representative a divisor of 1 Pitkin's Civil Hist . 351 . D 2 Journals of Congress , 1832 . the whole representative population of the United States , and THE UNITED STATES . 37.
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... Senate finally receded from their ground . It may therefore be now considered as a settled construction of the Consti- tution , that the ratio of representation must be a com- mon divisor of the numbers in the several states , and not ...
... Senate finally receded from their ground . It may therefore be now considered as a settled construction of the Consti- tution , that the ratio of representation must be a com- mon divisor of the numbers in the several states , and not ...
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... Senate administers an oath to the President of the Senate , that " he will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws of the United States . " The same oath is then adminis- tered by the President to each senator ...
... Senate administers an oath to the President of the Senate , that " he will do impartial justice according to the Constitution and laws of the United States . " The same oath is then adminis- tered by the President to each senator ...
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... Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state , chosen by the Legislature thereof , for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote . § 55. In the Senate , each state is equally represented . It has ...
... Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each state , chosen by the Legislature thereof , for six years ; and each senator shall have one vote . § 55. In the Senate , each state is equally represented . It has ...
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Page 161 - President, chosen for the same term, be elected as follows: 2. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors, equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress; but no Senator or Representative, or person holding an office of trust or profit under the United States, shall be appointed an elector.
Page 71 - Congress shall have power to promote the progress of science and the useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries, and to make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers.
Page 157 - Each house shall keep a journal of its proceedings, and, from time to time, publish the same, excepting such parts as may in their judgment require secrecy ; and the yeas and nays of the members of either house on any question shall, at the desire of one fifth of those present, be entered on the journal.
Page 160 - ... 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 159 - To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; 12 To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; 13 To provide and maintain a Navy...
Page 156 - Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they be equally divided. 5. The Senate shall choose their other officers, and also a president pro tempore, in the absence of the Vice-President, or when he shall exercise the office of President of the United States. 6. The Senate shall have the sole power to try all impeachments: when sitting for that purpose, they shall be on oath or affirmation. When the President of the United States is tried, the Chief-Justice shall preside; and no person shall be convicted...
Page 162 - Supreme Court, and all other officers of the United States, whose appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by law; but the Congress may by law vest the appointment of such inferior officers as they think proper in the President alone, in the courts of law, or in the heads of departments.
Page 62 - States, be considered as citizens thereof; and the children of persons who now are, or have been, citizens of the United States, shall, though born out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States...
Page 178 - In all our deliberations on this subject we kept steadily in our view, that which appears to us the greatest interest of every true American, the consolidation of our Union, in which is involved our prosperity, felicity, safety, perhaps our national existence.
Page 157 - The times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives, shall be prescribed in each state by the legislature thereof; but the congress may at any time, by law, make or alter such regulations, except as to the places of choosing senators.