son holding any office under the United States shall be a SENATOR. No senator shall be appointed an elector of President ments. Amend SENATORS. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State. SENATORS. Two senators shall be chosen by the legislature of each State for six years. SENATORS divided as nearly as may be into three classes after the first election. The seats of the first class vacated at the expiration of the second year. The seats of the second class vacated at expiration of the fourth year. The seats of the third class vacated at expiration of the sixth year; so that one-third may be chosen every second year SENATORS. If vacancies happen in seats of senators, by resignation or otherwise, during the recess of the legislature of any State, the executive thereof may make temporary ap pointments until next meeting of the legislature, which shall then fill such vacancies (See Classification, n. 34.) SENATORS. 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 choosing senators.. SENATORS and representatives shall receive a compensation for their services, to be ascertained by law, and paid out of the treasury of the United States.. They shall, in all cases except treason, felony, and breach of the peace, be privileged from arrest during their attendance at the session of their respective houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any speech or debate in either house they shall not be questioned in any other place. SENATORS of the United States shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support the Constitution of the United States SERVICE. Persons bound to service for a term of years included in representative numbers SERVICE of the United States. The Congress shall have power to provide for governing such parts of the militia as may be SERVICE of the United States. The President shall be commander- SERVICE or labor. (See Slaves--Fugitives.) . SERVICES. The President shall, at stated times, receive for his (See President, n. 173.) SERVICES. The judges, both of the supreme and inferior courts, SESSION of Congress. (See Meeting.) in December, unless they shall by law appoint a different (See Congress, n. 43, for the act fixing sessions.) same.. (See Arrest--Privilege.) SESSION of the Senate. The President shall have power to fill up all vacancies that may happen during the recess of the Senate, by granting commissions which shall expire at the end of their next session.. SEWARD, WILLIAM H. Secretary of State, n. 274. p. 272. SHIPS of war. No State shall, without the consent of Congress, keep ships of war in time of peace SIGNED. Every bill, resolution, order, or vote, approved, shall be signed by the President. SIGNED. Any bill, resolution, &c., not returned within ten days, SLAVES. punishment for crime, whereof the party shall have been Three-fifths of all slaves included in representative not be prohibited by the Congress prior to the year 1808, SLAVES. No person held to service or labor in one State, under ments.... Soldier and quartered defined, n. 250. Collections of SOUTH CAROLINA. Signed the Declaration of Independence, p. 8. SPAIGHT, RICHARD DOBBS, of North Carolina. Signed this Con- SPEAKER and other officers. The House of Representatives shall Speaker defined, n. 26. List of Speakers, n. 26, p. 78. SPEECH. Senators and representatives, for any speech or debate in SPEECH. Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech. Amendinents.. "Freedom" defined, n. 246. STANBERY, HENRY. Attorney-General of the United States, n. 197, p. 192. STANDARD. Congress shall have power to fix the standard of weights and measures... "Fix" defined. "Standard" defined, n. 101. Weights and measures; metric system; act of Congress authorizing metric system, n. 102. (See Weights and Measures.) STATE of the Union. The President shall, from time to time, give to the Congress information of the state of the Union, and recommend to their consideration such measures as he shall judge necessary and expedient. STATE. A representative in Congress shall be an inhabitant of STATE. When vacancies happen in the representation from a STATE. The Senate of the United States shall be composed of two senators from each State, chosen by the legislature thereof STATE. If vacancies happen in seats of senators, by resignation or STATE. A senator in Congress shall be an inhabitant of the State STATE. NO tax or duty shall be laid on articles exported from any STATE. No preference shall be given, by any regulation of com- STATE, No State shall, without the consent of the Congress, lay (For the extent of these inhibitions on the States, see Articles of Confederation, Art. VI. p. 11.) STATE. Each State shall appoint, in such manner as the legis lature thereof may direct, the electors of President and Vice-President of the United States. (See Election.).... STATE The judicial power shall extend to controversies to which the United States shall be a party; to controversies between two or more States; between a State and citizens of another State; between citizens of different States; between citizens of the same State claiming lands under grants of different States; and between a State, or the citizens thereof, and foreign States, citizens, or sub: jects (See Judicial Power.) STATE. In all cases in which a State shall be a party, the Supreme STATE. The trial of all crimes, except in cases of impeachment, shall be by jury; and such trial shall be held in the State (See Crimes.) STATE. Full faith and credit shall be given in each State to the public acts, records, and judicial proceedings of every other State. And the Congress may, by general laws, prescribe the manner in which such acts, records, and proceedings shall be proved, and the effect thereof STATE. The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States (See Citizens-Privileges—Immunities, notes 220, 221.) STATE. A person charged in any State with treason, felony, or STATE. The Congress snall have power to dispose of, and make STATE. 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 (when the legislature cannot be convened), against domestic violence.... State defined, n. 233, p. 242. STATE No State, without its consent, shall be deprived of its equal suffrage in the Senate.. STATE. The judges in every State shall be bound by the Constitution, laws, and treaties of the United States, any thing in the Constitution or laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding... STATE legislatures. The members of the several State legislatures, and all executive and judicial officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by oath or affirmation to support this Constitution.... (See Oath, n. 242.) STATE. A well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed Amendments STATE. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed; which district shall have been previously ascertained by law. Amendments... STATE. In choosing the President (by the House of Representatives), the vote shall be taken by States, the representatives from each State having one vote: a quorum for this purpose shall consist of a member or members from twothirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary to a choice. Amendments... STATE. The electors shall meet in their respective States and vote, by ballot, for President and Vice-President, one of whom at least shall not be an inhabitant of the same State with themselves. Amendments.. STATES. Declared free and independent, p. 6. Articles of perpetual union between, pp. 8-9. Each retained its sovereignty, Art. I. p. 9. Entered into a firm league, Art. III p. 9. The rights of the people of the different States, Art. IV. p. 10. Rendition and records, Id. To choose delegates, Art. V. p. 10. Inhibitions To supply a common treasury, Art. V Art. VI. p. 12. p. 13. STATES. Representatives in Congress to be chosen every two years by the people of the States... STATES. The people defined and discussed, n. 16. The qualifica- STATES entitled to representatives in the first Congress were: |