The Rights and Duties of American CitizenshipAmerican Book Company, 1898 - 336 pages |
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... determined and the manner in which such authority is to be exercised are collectively termed the constitution . The essential elements of a state are , therefore : 1. A community of people socially and politically united . 2. A ...
... determined and the manner in which such authority is to be exercised are collectively termed the constitution . The essential elements of a state are , therefore : 1. A community of people socially and politically united . 2. A ...
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... , the powers of government which are at first vague and indefinite both as to extent and manner of exercise , become - strictly determined , and their scope and exercise more 24 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE Development of the State.
... , the powers of government which are at first vague and indefinite both as to extent and manner of exercise , become - strictly determined , and their scope and exercise more 24 INTRODUCTION TO POLITICAL SCIENCE Development of the State.
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Westel Woodbury Willoughby. - strictly determined , and their scope and exercise more and more regulated by customs that have crystallized into fixed rules , — rules which , as we have learned , are collectively termed a constitution ...
Westel Woodbury Willoughby. - strictly determined , and their scope and exercise more and more regulated by customs that have crystallized into fixed rules , — rules which , as we have learned , are collectively termed a constitution ...
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... determining the direction in which the development of political forms shall proceed . Distinctions arise as to the number of interests to be regulated by the state , as to whether the people shall generally participate either actively ...
... determining the direction in which the development of political forms shall proceed . Distinctions arise as to the number of interests to be regulated by the state , as to whether the people shall generally participate either actively ...
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... determination of the policies of government and the selection of the officials who shall transact it , in order that by its exercise the good of the state may be maintained . It is , therefore , for the state itself to determine by its ...
... determination of the policies of government and the selection of the officials who shall transact it , in order that by its exercise the good of the state may be maintained . It is , therefore , for the state itself to determine by its ...
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Page 311 - ... Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature. [2] No Person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the Age of twenty-five Years, and been seven Years a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State in which he shall be chosen. [3] Representatives and direct Taxes...
Page 319 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several 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 320 - The Congress shall have Power to dispose of and make all needful Rules and Regulations respecting the Territory or other Property belonging to the United States ; and nothing in this Constitution shall be so construed as to Prejudice any Claims of the United States, or of any particular State. SECTION 4. The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion, and on Application of the Legislature, or of the Executive...
Page 324 - The person having the greatest number of votes as Vice President, shall be the Vice President, if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed ; and if no person have a majority, then from the two highest numbers on the list, the Senate shall choose the Vice President ; a quorum for the purpose shall consist of two thirds of the whole number of senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. But no person constitutionally ineligible to the office...
Page 319 - Congress shall make. 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 316 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 7. No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of the receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time. 8. No title of nobility shall be granted by the United States: and no person holding any office of profit or trust under them, shall, without the consent of the Congress, accept of any present, emolument, office, or title,...
Page 325 - States, or as a member of any State Legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any State, to support the Constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But Congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each House, remove such disability.
Page 313 - 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 315 - ... 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 318 - President and all civil Officers of the United States, shall be removed from Office on Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors. ARTICLE III Section 1. The judicial Power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme Court, and in such inferior Courts as the Congress may from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges, both of the supreme and inferior Courts, shall hold their Offices during good...