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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... Admiralty Court , and a general tribunal to settle conflicts and dis- putes between the several states . 3. The great deficiency was , that the articles of con- federation did not act upon individuals , but upon the states ; and that to ...
... Admiralty Court , and a general tribunal to settle conflicts and dis- putes between the several states . 3. The great deficiency was , that the articles of con- federation did not act upon individuals , but upon the states ; and that to ...
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... admiralty and maritime jurisdic- tion ; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more states ; between a state and citizens of another state ; between citizens of different states ...
... admiralty and maritime jurisdic- tion ; to controversies to which the United States shall be a party ; to controversies between two or more states ; between a state and citizens of another state ; between citizens of different states ...
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... admiralty jurisdiction of the courts . § 359. 1. What are the territorial limits of juris- diction ? The limits of jurisdiction , as it respects the 13 Dallas , 342 ; 1 Wheaton , 304 . Supreme Court are the limits of the United States ...
... admiralty jurisdiction of the courts . § 359. 1. What are the territorial limits of juris- diction ? The limits of jurisdiction , as it respects the 13 Dallas , 342 ; 1 Wheaton , 304 . Supreme Court are the limits of the United States ...
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... admiralty and maritime jurisdiction on the high seas , and also within waters leading from them , and in which vessels of ten tons burden may navigate.2 § 362. The concurrent jurisdiction of the state and national courts has also been a ...
... admiralty and maritime jurisdiction on the high seas , and also within waters leading from them , and in which vessels of ten tons burden may navigate.2 § 362. The concurrent jurisdiction of the state and national courts has also been a ...
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... admiralty and mari- time jurisdiction of the District Courts . The District Courts act as courts of Common Law , and also as courts of admiralty . In England a differ- ence existed between the Instance and Prize Courts . The former is ...
... admiralty and mari- time jurisdiction of the District Courts . The District Courts act as courts of Common Law , and also as courts of admiralty . In England a differ- ence existed between the Instance and Prize Courts . The former is ...
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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.