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 StatesU.S. Government Printing Office, 1897 - 690 pages |
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... Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills . 2 Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate ...
... Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives ; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills . 2 Every Bill which shall have passed the House of Representatives and the Senate ...
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... bill of ... Attainder , ex post facto law , or law impairing the obligation of contracts . No State shall pass any bill of ___------ Attainder of treason shall not work corruption of blood or for- feiture , except during the life of the ...
... bill of ... Attainder , ex post facto law , or law impairing the obligation of contracts . No State shall pass any bill of ___------ Attainder of treason shall not work corruption of blood or for- feiture , except during the life of the ...
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... bill for suppressing soldiers , depending before the House ; his proposing a provisional clause for a bill before it was presented to him by the two Houses ; his expressing displeasure against some persons for matters moved in ...
... bill for suppressing soldiers , depending before the House ; his proposing a provisional clause for a bill before it was presented to him by the two Houses ; his expressing displeasure against some persons for matters moved in ...
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... bills ready for it are put on their passage . 3. Reports in possession of the House , which offer grounds for a bill , are to be taken up , that the bill may be ordered in . 4. Bills or other matters before the House , and unfinished on ...
... bills ready for it are put on their passage . 3. Reports in possession of the House , which offer grounds for a bill , are to be taken up , that the bill may be ordered in . 4. Bills or other matters before the House , and unfinished on ...
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... bill . [ In the Senate . ] SEC . XXII . - BILLS . Rule XIV - Clause 2 . 2. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings pre- vious to its passage ; which readings shall be on three different days , unless the Senate ...
... bill . [ In the Senate . ] SEC . XXII . - BILLS . Rule XIV - Clause 2 . 2. Every bill and joint resolution shall receive three readings pre- vious to its passage ; which readings shall be on three different days , unless the Senate ...
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Page 2 - No Senator or Representative shall, during the Time for which he was elected, be appointed to any civil Office under the Authority of the United States, which shall have been created, or the Emoluments whereof shall have been encreased during such time ; and no Person holding any Office under the United States, shall be a Member of either House during his Continuance in Office.
Page 445 - ... 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 7 - ... §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 of any kind whatever from any king, prince or foreign...
Page 564 - 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 257 - 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 257 - 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 372 - No motion or proposition on a subject different from that under consideration shall be admitted under color of amendment.
Page 11 - ... 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.