The Constitution of the United States Defined and Carefully AnnotatedW.H. & O.H. Morrison, 1868 - 407 pages |
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... , armed and equipped shall march to the place appointed , and within the time agreed on by the united states in congress assembled : But if the united states in congress assembled shall , on consi- deration ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION . 17.
... , armed and equipped shall march to the place appointed , and within the time agreed on by the united states in congress assembled : But if the united states in congress assembled shall , on consi- deration ARTICLES OF CONFEDERATION . 17.
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... march to the place appointed , and within the time agreed on by the united states in congress assembled . The united states in congress assembled shall never engage in a war , nor grant letters of marque and repri- sal in time of peace ...
... march to the place appointed , and within the time agreed on by the united states in congress assembled . The united states in congress assembled shall never engage in a war , nor grant letters of marque and repri- sal in time of peace ...
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... March 1st , 1781 , Richard Henry Lee , John Banister , Thomas Adams , John Penn , July 21st , 1778 , Henry Laurens , William Henry Drayton , Jno Matthews , Jno Walton , 24th July , 1778 , Daniel Carroll , March 1st , 1781 , Jno Harvie ...
... March 1st , 1781 , Richard Henry Lee , John Banister , Thomas Adams , John Penn , July 21st , 1778 , Henry Laurens , William Henry Drayton , Jno Matthews , Jno Walton , 24th July , 1778 , Daniel Carroll , March 1st , 1781 , Jno Harvie ...
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... March next following , then the Vice- President shall act as President , as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the Presi- dent . The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice - President , shall be ...
... March next following , then the Vice- President shall act as President , as in the case of the death or other constitutional disability of the Presi- dent . The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice - President , shall be ...
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... March , 1789. Owings v . Speed , 5 Wheat . 420 ; 1 Kent's Com . 219 . 4. The new government was not a mere change in dynasty , as in a new gov- a form of government , leaving the nation or sovereignty the same , and clothed with all the ...
... March , 1789. Owings v . Speed , 5 Wheat . 420 ; 1 Kent's Com . 219 . 4. The new government was not a mere change in dynasty , as in a new gov- a form of government , leaving the nation or sovereignty the same , and clothed with all the ...
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Page 15 - ... the secretary of Congress shall strike in behalf of such party absent or refusing; and the judgment and sentence of the court to be appointed in the manner before prescribed, shall be final and conclusive; and if any of the parties shall refuse to submit to the authority of such court, or to appear or defend their claim or cause, the court shall nevertheless proceed to pronounce sentence, or judgment, which shall in like manner be final and decisive, the judgment or sentence and other proceedings...
Page 9 - The said States hereby severally enter into a firm league of friendship with each other, for their common defense, 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 pretense whatever.
Page 25 - Trust or Profit under the United States : but the Party convicted shall nevertheless be liable and subject to Indictment, Trial, Judgment and Punishment, according to Law. SECTION. 4. 'The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed 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 chusing Senators.
Page 39 - Crime. 3 [No Person held to Service or Labour in one State, under the Laws thereof, escaping into another, shall, in Consequence of any Law or Regulation therein, be discharged from such Service or Labour, but shall be delivered up on Claim of the Party to whom such Service or Labour may be due.]* SECTION.
Page 34 - The President shall, at stated Times, receive for his Services, a Compensation, which shall neither be encreased nor diminished during the Period for which he shall have been elected, and he shall not receive within that Period any other Emolument from the United States, or any of them. " Before he enter on the Execution of his Office, he shall take the following Oath or Affirmation...
Page 10 - Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings, of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Page 3 - He has refused, for a long time after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the legislative powers, incapable of annihilation, have returned to the people at large for their exercise ; the State remaining, in the mean time, exposed to all the danger of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 16 - ... or sentence and other proceedings being in either case transmitted to Congress, and lodged among the acts of Congress for the security of the parties concerned : provided that every commissioner, before he sits in judgment, shall take an oath to be administered by one of the judges of the Supreme or Superior Court of the State where the cause shall be tried, "well and truly to hear and determine the matter in question, according to the best of his judgment, without favor, affection, or hope of...
Page 26 - Each House shall keep a Journal of its Proceedings, and from time to time publish the same, excepting such Parts as may in their Judgment require Secrecy ; and the Yeas and Nays of the Members of either House on any question shall, at the Desire of one fifth of those Present, be entered on the Journal.
Page 4 - For transporting us beyond the seas to be tried for pretended offenses : For abolishing the free system of English laws in a neighboring province, establishing therein an arbitrary government, and enlarging its boundaries, so as to render it at once an example and fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these colonies : For taking away our charters, abolishing our most valuable laws, and altering...