Constitution of the United States: Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives of the United States |
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Page 433 - ... that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic ; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same ; that I take this obligation freely, without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion; and that I will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which I am about to enter : so help me God.
Page 552 - Every person who having been summoned as a witness by the authority of either House of Congress to give testimony or to produce papers upon any matter under inquiry before either House...
Page 247 - Congress assembled should fix a day on which electors should be appointed by the States which shall have ratified the same, and a day on which the electors should assemble to vote for the President, and the time and place for commencing proceedings under this Constitution; that after such publication the electors should be appointed, and the senators and representatives elected...
Page 247 - States in Congress assembled; that the senators and representatives should convene at the time and place assigned; that the senators should appoint a president of the Senate, for the sole purpose of receiving, opening, and counting the votes for President; and that after he shall be chosen, the Congress, together with the President, should without delay proceed to execute this Constitution.
Page 360 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Bibliographic information
| Title | Constitution of the United States: Jefferson's Manual, the Rules of the House of Representatives of the Fifty-fourth Congress, and a Digest and Manual of the Rules and Practice of the House of Representatives of the United States |
| Contributor | Thomas Hudson McKee |
| Publisher | U.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2006 |
| Length | 690 pages |
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