The Science of Government as Exhibited in the Institutions of the United States of America |
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... senate of the United States is composed of two senators from each state , chosen by the legislature thereof for six years . No person can be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years , and shall have been a ...
... senate of the United States is composed of two senators from each state , chosen by the legislature thereof for six years . No person can be a senator who shall not have attained to the age of thirty years , and shall have been a ...
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... senators and representatives shall be pre- scribed , 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 . † The senators ...
... senators and representatives shall be pre- scribed , 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 . † The senators ...
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... senators of each state , as members of the senate , stand upon equal terms with those of every other state , so far as political power and authority is concerned , without reference to the population , wealth , or local position of the ...
... senators of each state , as members of the senate , stand upon equal terms with those of every other state , so far as political power and authority is concerned , without reference to the population , wealth , or local position of the ...
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... senators cannot be enlarged or diminished beyond two from each state . Each house is the exclu- sive judge of the election and qualification of its own members , each prescribes its own rules of action . The members are paid from the ...
... senators cannot be enlarged or diminished beyond two from each state . Each house is the exclu- sive judge of the election and qualification of its own members , each prescribes its own rules of action . The members are paid from the ...
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... senate . If every state in the Union should , at the same time , and for six consecutive years , decline to choose senators , an integral part of the federal government would become vacant . This omission was the subject of discussion ...
... senate . If every state in the Union should , at the same time , and for six consecutive years , decline to choose senators , an integral part of the federal government would become vacant . This omission was the subject of discussion ...
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Page 235 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 47 - The jurisdiction of the nation within its own territory is necessarily exclusive and absolute. It is susceptible of no limitation not imposed by itself. Any restriction upon it, deriving validity from an external source, would imply a diminution of its sovereignty to the extent of the restriction, and an investment of that sovereignty to the same extent in that power which could impose such restrictions.
Page 313 - ... in case of a deliberate, palpable, and dangerous exercise of other powers, not granted by the said compact, the states, who are the parties thereto, have the right, and are in duty bound, to interpose, for arresting the progress of the evil, and for maintaining within their respective limits, the authorities, rights, and liberties appertaining to them...
Page 175 - THERE is nothing which so generally strikes the imagination, and engages the affections of mankind, as the right of . property ; or that sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world} in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe.
Page 168 - is a social compact by which the whole people covenants with each citizen, and each citizen with the whole people, that all shall be governed by certain laws for the common good.
Page 7 - RESOLVED, That the preceding Constitution be laid before the United States, in Congress assembled, and that it is the opinion of this Convention, that it should afterwards be submitted to a Convention of Delegates, chosen in each State by the people thereof, under the recommendation of its Legislature, for their assent and ratification...
Page 81 - It may not be unworthy of remark that it is very unusual, even in cases of conquest, for the conqueror to do more than to displace the sovereign and assume dominion over the country. The modern usage of nations, which has become law, would be violated ; that sense of justice and of right which is acknowledged and felt by the whole civilized world would be outraged, if private property should be generally confiscated Dissenting Opinion : Shiras, Field, JJ. and private rights annulled.
Page 274 - 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 92 - The government which has a right to do an act, and has imposed on it the duty of performing that act, must, according to the dictates of reason, be allowed to select the means ; and those who contend that it may not select any appropriate means, that one particular mode of effecting the object is excepted, take upon themselves the burden of establishing that exception.
Page 225 - ... where the jurisdiction of a court, and the right of a plaintiff to prosecute his suit in it, have once attached, that right cannot be arrested or. taken away by proceedings in another court.