 | James Madison - Presidents - 1962 - 608 pages
...stipulated that all other questions, "except for adjourning from day to day," could be answered "by the votes of a majority of the united states in congress assembled" (JCC, XIX, 220). 13 See n. 10. JM's statement reflected the long and acrimonious history of the proposal... | |
 | William Winslow Crosskey, William Jeffrey - History - 1953 - 608 pages
...numher of land or sea forees to he raised, nor appoint a eommander in ehief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same: nor shall a question on any other point, exeept for adjourning from day to day he determined, unless by the votes of a majority of the united... | |
 | United States - 1981 - 870 pages
...number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander-in-chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same; nor shall a question...majority of the united states in congress assembled. 756.16 The Congress of the united states shall have power to adjourn to any time within the year, and... | |
 | Theodore Dreiser - Fiction - 1987 - 1168 pages
...number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same: nor shall a question...any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six... | |
 | Winton U. Solberg - History - 1990 - 548 pages
...number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same: nor shall a question...any time within the year, and to any place within the united states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space of six... | |
 | Stephen L. Schechter - Business & Economics - 1990 - 478 pages
...number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same: nor shall a question...votes of a majority of the united states in congress assembled.41 welfare." Article VIII was a provision for peacetime since only after the war's end would... | |
 | Ralph Louis Ketcham, Ralph Ketcham - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 788 pages
...committees and preliminary moves on the major questions, the Articles vaguely required the assent of the "votes of a majority of the United States, in Congress assembled." Did this require an absolute majority of seven? Or merely a majority of the states present and voting?... | |
 | Calvin C. Jillson, Rick K. Wilson - Political Science - 1994 - 404 pages
...day, when called for by a State shall always have the preference and shall not be postponed but by the votes of a majority of the United States in Congress assembled. 8. When a report is brought forward for consideration it shall first be read over and then debated... | |
 | Gyeorgos C. Hatonn - Self-Help - 1995 - 244 pages
...chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent (ORIGINAL NINE, the rest of you don't mean diddly) to the same; nor shall a question on any other point,...majority of the United States in Congress ASSEMBLED. 6) Article XIn: "Every state shall abide by the determinations of the United States in CONGRESS ASSEMBLED... | |
 | United States. Constitutional Convention, James Madison - Law - 1999 - 836 pages
...nor appoint a commander in chief of the army or navy, unless nine states assent to the same: лог shall a question on any other point, except for adjourning...any time within the year, and to any place within the united, states, so that no period of adjournment be for a longer duration than the space- of six... | |
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States or any of them, nor emit bills, nor borrow money on the credit of the United States, nor appropriate money, nor agree upon the number of vessels of war to be built or purchased, or the number of land or sea forces to be raised, nor appoint a... 
