South is broken, and they submit themselves to their duty to obey, and our right to have obeyed, the Constitution of the United States, as Executive Power - Page 12by Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Charles Mabie, Leonard Dupee White - Courts - 1913 - 76 pages
...judicial officers both of the United States and of the several states to be bound by oath to support the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. Another important fact, to be taken into account, is the provision of the federal judiciary act of... | |
| Albert Taylor Bledsoe - Secession - 1915 - 250 pages
...Texas came into the Union; and, in consideration of certain things promised to her, agreed to accept the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. It was thus also that the original thirteen States, in view of certain advantages expected by them,... | |
| Samuel Benjamin Crandall - Political Science - 1916 - 706 pages
...counsel. And, indeed, it cannot be denied ; the treaty having been sanctioned, in all its parts, by the Constitution of the United States, as the supreme law of the land."' It was held that, under the provision in the fourth article of the treaty of peace that creditors on... | |
| Law - 1917 - 252 pages
...was the re establishment of civil government with the authority to enforce law and order, recognizing the constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land. Had the people west of the Alleghanies been as loyal to the Confederate government as were the people... | |
| William H. Bartlett - United States - 1920 - 206 pages
...to dispose of the same in any way they think best. The American citizen may claim the protection of the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, and the rights and liberties secured to him by the constitution and laws of his own State. He cannot... | |
| American Life Convention. Legal Section - Insurance law - 1918 - 776 pages
...direction in which we are going. The settled conviction which many of us had acquired that we might accept the constitution of the United States as "the supreme law of the land" was rudely shattered, and when we sought to ascertain what fundamental law had been invoked to justify... | |
| James Morton Callahan - West Virginia - 1923 - 774 pages
...Sergeant-at-Anns. All the members before taking their seats, were required to take an oath to support the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Ordinance of Secession passed at Richmond on the 17th... | |
| Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1923 - 704 pages
...loyal or law-abiding people. The people of Maryland had, in ratifying the constitution of 1787, adopted the constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, and had always so considered it, and still considered it. It was the sheet anchor of their hopes. Not... | |
| Carter Godwin Woodson, Rayford Whittingham Logan - African Americans - 1926 - 756 pages
...excepted such county officers. Persons offering to vote, moreover, were required to take oath to support the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the land, to support the Restored Government of Virginia, and to swear that they had not willingly supported... | |
| United States. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1926 - 1140 pages
...which thus affect the government or the individual can never be upheld in any tribunal which recognizes the Constitution of the United States as the supreme law of the laud. Neither the unlawful proceedings of the Confederate Government nor the judgment of its unauthorized... | |
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