Commentaries on the Constitution of the United States, Historical and Juridical: With Observations Upon the Ordinary Provisions of State Constitutions and a Comparison with the Constitutions of Other Countries, Volume 1

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Boston Book Company, 1895 - Constitutional history - 713 pages

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Contents

CHAPTER III
297
History of the Classification of Governmental Powers
299
Reasons for the Separation of the Three Powers
302
Equilibrium of the Three Departments in the United States
303
25 Significance of the Phrase to secure the Blessings of Liberty 26 Significance of the Phrase Ordain and Establish 27 Significance of the Word Con...
306
Origin of Congress
309
CHAPTER V
316
CHAPTER VI
319
The Fifteenth Amendment
327
The Power of Congress over the Right of Suffrage
330
Limitations of the Federal Constitution on the Power of the States
332
Constitutionality of Registration Laws
340
General Observations upon the Right of Suffrage
347
CHAPTER VII
355
CHAPTER VIII
369
319
394
Manner of Apportionment
395
330
407
The Census
411
Direct Taxes
417
APPENDIX TO CHAPTER VIII
424
VACANCIES IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND RESIGNATIONS FROM
447
The Speaker of the House
453
Origin of the Senate
459
Constitutional Provisions Concerning the Presidency and Officers of the Senate
499
Powers of the VicePresident over the Senate
500
The President pro tempore of the Senate
503
Other Officers of the Senate CHAPTER XIII
504
IMPEACHMENT 86 Provisions of the Constitution concerning Impeachment
505
Origin of Impeachments
506
Persons Subject to Impeachment 529
567
Impeachment after Expiration of Official Term
574
451
581
Impeachable Offences
588
Convictions upon Impeachment in the United States 95 Causes for which Public Officers may be Removed
602
Removal of Judges
605
Preliminary Proceedings on Impeachments
606
Articles of Impeachment
607
Service of Process on Impeachment
610
Managers of Impeachment and Counsel for Prosecution 101 Swearing of the Senate
612
Appearance of the Accused
613
Replication
616
619
619
APPENDIX TO VOL I
633
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Page 206 - Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Texas, by combinations too powerful to be suppressed by the ordinary course of judicial proceedings, or by the powers vested in the marshals by law...
Page 92 - The said states hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other for their common defence, the security of their liberties, and their mutual and general welfare, binding themselves to assist each other against all force offered to, or attacks made upon them, or any of them, on account of religion, sovereignty, trade, or any other pretence whatever.
Page 86 - RESOLVED, that each branch ought to possess the right of originating acts; that the National Legislature ought to be empowered to enjoy the legislative rights vested in Congress by the Confederation, and moreover to legislate in all cases to which the separate states are incompetent, or in which the harmony of the United States may be interrupted by the exercise of individual legislation...
Page 84 - That a national government ought to be established, consisting of a supreme legislative, executive, and judiciary.
Page 372 - ... in proportion to the value of all land within each state, granted to or surveyed for any Person, as such land and the buildings and improvements thereon shall be estimated according to such mode as the united states in congress assembled, shall from time to time direct and appoint.
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Page 339 - For the purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of the United States ; nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of this State or of the United States, or of the high seas ; nor while a student of any seminary of learning, nor while kept at any almshouse or other asylum at public expense ; nor while confined in any public prison.
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