The United States Government: Its Organization and Practical Workings. Including the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution of the United States, and a Description of the Three Grand Divisions of the Government, Namely:--the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Departments, Their Powers and Duties, with the Number, Title and Compensation of All Persons Employed in Each, Together with Many Interesting Facts and HistoriesJ.B. Lippincott & Company, 1880 - 297 pages |
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... entitled to benefit 2 Company quartermaster sergeants of any branch of the service not to be appointed ( see General Order No. 61. series of 1873 ) , but reduction to be gradual by not filling vacancies . The Library of the WISC ...
... entitled to benefit 2 Company quartermaster sergeants of any branch of the service not to be appointed ( see General Order No. 61. series of 1873 ) , but reduction to be gradual by not filling vacancies . The Library of the WISC ...
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... entitled to chuse three , Massachusetts eight , Rhode - Island and Providence Plantations one , Con- necticut five , New - York six , New Jersey four , Pennsylvania eight , Delaware one , Maryland six , Virginia ten , North Caro- lina ...
... entitled to chuse three , Massachusetts eight , Rhode - Island and Providence Plantations one , Con- necticut five , New - York six , New Jersey four , Pennsylvania eight , Delaware one , Maryland six , Virginia ten , North Caro- lina ...
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... entitled in the Congress but no Senator or Representa- tive , or Person holding an Office of Trust The Electors shall meet in their respec- tive States , and vote by Ballot for two Persons , of whom one at least shall not be an ...
... entitled in the Congress but no Senator or Representa- tive , or Person holding an Office of Trust The Electors shall meet in their respec- tive States , and vote by Ballot for two Persons , of whom one at least shall not be an ...
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... entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States . 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 ...
... entitled to all Privileges and Immunities of Citizens in the several States . 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 ...
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... entitled to receive $ 10,000 a year ; but , at present , $ 8000 only is appropriated . chief clerk ) , must supervise , under the direction of his immediate superior , the duties of the other clerks therein , and see that they are ...
... entitled to receive $ 10,000 a year ; but , at present , $ 8000 only is appropriated . chief clerk ) , must supervise , under the direction of his immediate superior , the duties of the other clerks therein , and see that they are ...
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Page 17 - 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...
Page 17 - 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 3. New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the Jurisdiction of any other State; nor any State be formed by the Junction of two or more...
Page 10 - He is at this time transporting large armies of foreign mercenaries to compleat the works of death, desolation, and tyranny, already begun with circumstances of Cruelty and perfidy scarcely paralleled in the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a civilized nation. He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
Page 13 - Senators. The Congress shall assemble at least once in every Year, and such Meeting shall be on the first Monday in December, unless they shall by Law appoint a different Day.
Page 15 - States, and a Majority of all the States shall be necessary to a Choice. In every Case, after the Choice of the President, the Person having the greatest Number of Votes of the Electors shall be the Vice President. But if there should remain two or more who have equal Votes, the Senate shall chuse from them by Ballot the Vice President. The Congress may determine the Time of chusing the Electors, and the Day on which they shall give their Votes; which Day shall be the same throughout the United States.
Page 16 - 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...
Page 62 - All stocks, bonds, Treasury notes, and other obligations of the United States, shall be exempt from taxation by or under State or municipal or local authority.
Page 16 - 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 13 - No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty Years, and been nine Years, a Citizen of the United States, and who shall not, when elected, be an Inhabitant of that State for which he shall be chosen. The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no Vote, unless they be equally divided.
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