The Constitutional History of the United States, 1765/1895: 1861-1895Callaghan & Company, 1901 - Constitutional history |
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... exist- ence ? " Viewing the issue in this light , the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the government , and to resist force , employed for its destruction , with force employed for its preservation . " It might ...
... exist- ence ? " Viewing the issue in this light , the President had no choice but to call out the war power of the government , and to resist force , employed for its destruction , with force employed for its preservation . " It might ...
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... exist- ing rebellion having reference to slaves , so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court . So help me God . " Id . 2 Article IV , Section 4 . 74 LINCOLN'S PART IN RECONSTRUCTION . The ...
... exist- ing rebellion having reference to slaves , so long and so far as not modified or declared void by decision of the Supreme Court . So help me God . " Id . 2 Article IV , Section 4 . 74 LINCOLN'S PART IN RECONSTRUCTION . The ...
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... exist- ing before the rebellion , were to be preserved , subject only to modifications made necessary by the conditions stated in the proclamation , and to such others , if any , in contravening them , as might be deemed expedient . The ...
... exist- ing before the rebellion , were to be preserved , subject only to modifications made necessary by the conditions stated in the proclamation , and to such others , if any , in contravening them , as might be deemed expedient . The ...
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... exist in a manufacturing community . For an account of slavery in Louisiana see my Constitutional History of the American People , 1776-1850 , Vol . I , Chapters xiii , xiv , xv ; that the institution could exist only in an agricultural ...
... exist in a manufacturing community . For an account of slavery in Louisiana see my Constitutional History of the American People , 1776-1850 , Vol . I , Chapters xiii , xiv , xv ; that the institution could exist only in an agricultural ...
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... exist in Maryland ? Why strike down this property , which from time immemorial had received the especial care of the legislature , and protect other kinds ? The market returns showed that the product of slave - labor were three times as ...
... exist in Maryland ? Why strike down this property , which from time immemorial had received the especial care of the legislature , and protect other kinds ? The market returns showed that the product of slave - labor were three times as ...
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Page 503 - States. 2 A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Page 504 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 491 - ... 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 501 - ... 3. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the state where the said crimes shall have been committed; but when not committed within any state, the trial shall be at such place or places as the congress may by law have directed.
Page 4 - This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or their revolutionary right to dismember or overthrow it.
Page 20 - ... it becomes our duty, by legislation, whenever such legislation is necessary, to maintain this provision of the Constitution against all attempts to violate it; and we deny the authority of Congress, of a territorial legislature, or of any individuals, to give legal existence to slavery in any territory of the United States.
Page 496 - Vice-President, declaring what officer shall then act as President, and such officer shall act accordingly until the disability be removed or a President shall be elected. 7. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his services a compensation which shall neither be increased nor...
Page 473 - Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct. The Number of Representatives shall not exceed one for every thirty Thousand, but each State shall have at Least one Representative; and until such enumeration shall be made, the State of New Hampshire shall be entitled to chuse three, Massachusetts eight, Rhode-Island and Providence Plantations one, Connecticut five, New- York six, New Jersey four, Pennsylvania eight, Delaware one, Maryland six, Virginia ten, North Carolina five, South Carolina...
Page 73 - 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...
Page 494 - No person, except a natural born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this constitution, shall be eligible to the office of president: neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.