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Executive Power - Page 12
by Benjamin Robbins Curtis - 1862 - 34 pages
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The Courts and Social Reform: Constructive and Rebuttal Speeches and Briefs ...

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...
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The War Between the States; Or, Was Secession a Constitutional Right ...

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,...
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Treaties, Their Making and Enforcement

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...
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The Bar: West Virginia, Volume 24

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...
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Handbook of American Government

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...
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Minutes of the Proceedings of the Legal Section of the American ..., Volume 11

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...
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History of West Virginia, Old and New, Volume 1

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...
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Debates of the Maryland Constitutional Convention of 1867: (as Reprinted ...

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...
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The Journal of Negro History, Volume 11

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...
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United States Supreme Court Reports, Volume 28

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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