The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Miscellaneous: 4. Parliamentary manual; 5. The anas; 6. Miscellaneous papersTaylor & Maury, 1854 |
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... motion , 1 Bl . 166. 2. Stra . 990 ; or by Habeas Corpus under the Federal or State authority , as the case may be ; or by a writ of privilege out of the Chancery , 2 Stra . 989 , in those States which have adopted that part of the laws ...
... motion , 1 Bl . 166. 2. Stra . 990 ; or by Habeas Corpus under the Federal or State authority , as the case may be ; or by a writ of privilege out of the Chancery , 2 Stra . 989 , in those States which have adopted that part of the laws ...
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... motion , to put the question that the House do now resolve it- self into a committee of the whole , to take under consideration such a matter , naming it . If determined in the affirmative , he leaves the chair , and takes a seat ...
... motion , to put the question that the House do now resolve it- self into a committee of the whole , to take under consideration such a matter , naming it . If determined in the affirmative , he leaves the chair , and takes a seat ...
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... motion and question , rises , the Speaker resumes the chair , and the chair- man can make no other report than to inform the House of the cause of their dissolution . If a message is announced during a committee , the Speaker takes the ...
... motion and question , rises , the Speaker resumes the chair , and the chair- man can make no other report than to inform the House of the cause of their dissolution . If a message is announced during a committee , the Speaker takes the ...
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... motion is made to that effect , and a question put , that it be received to- morrow , & c . - Scob . 38 . In other things the rules of proceedings are to be the same as in the House . — Scob . 39 . SECTION XIII . EXAMINATION OF ...
... motion is made to that effect , and a question put , that it be received to- morrow , & c . - Scob . 38 . In other things the rules of proceedings are to be the same as in the House . — Scob . 39 . SECTION XIII . EXAMINATION OF ...
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... motion is made for commitment , they are then laid on the table in the general file , to be taken up in their just ... motions , and reports on bills . Such are , bills from the other House , which are received at all times , and receive ...
... motion is made for commitment , they are then laid on the table in the general file , to be taken up in their just ... motions , and reports on bills . Such are , bills from the other House , which are received at all times , and receive ...
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Page 464 - Constitution for the United States and of amendments thereto, they constituted a general government for special purposes, delegated to that government certain definite powers, reserving, each State to itself, the residuary mass of right to their own self-government; and that whensoever the general government assumes undelegated powers, its acts are unauthoritative, void, and of no force...
Page 487 - that the laws of the several States, except where the Constitution, treaties, or statutes of the United States shall otherwise require or provide, shall be regarded as rules of decision in trials at common law in the courts of the United States, in cases where they apply.
Page 471 - That they will view this as seizing the rights of the States and consolidating them in the hands of the General Government with...
Page 466 - States," which does abridge the freedom of the press, is not law, but is altogether void and of no effect. IV. Resolved, that alien friends are under the jurisdiction and protection of the laws of the State wherein they are ; that no power over them has been delegated to the United States, nor prohibited to the individual States distinct from their power over citizens ; and it being true as a general principle, and one of the amendments to the Constitution having also declared that " the powers not...
Page 8 - Nor may their lands or goods be distrained: 7th. Nor their persons assaulted, or characters traduced. And the period of time covered by privilege, before and after the session, with the practice of short prorogations under the connivance of the Crown, amounts in fact to a perpetual protection against the course of justice. In one instance, indeed, it has been relaxed by the 10 G.
Page 470 - ... in questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution.
Page 465 - Government created by this compact was not made the exclusive or final judge of the extent of the powers delegated to itself; since that would have made its discretion, and not the Constitution, the measure of its powers; but that as in all other cases of compact among parties having no common judge, each party has an equal right to judge for itself, as well of infractions, as of the mode and measure of redress.
Page 466 - States or to the people ; that thus was manifested their determination to retain to themselves the right of judging how far the licentiousness of speech and of the press may be abridged without lessening their useful freedom, and how far those abuses which cannot be separated from their use should be tolerated rather than the use be destroyed...
Page 55 - ... successively on the longest. Otherwise it would be in the power of the mover, by inserting originally a short time, to preclude the possibility of a longer; for till the short time is struck out, you cannot...
Page 280 - ... to the enemies of the other, shall be deemed contraband so as to induce confiscation or condemnation and a loss of property to individuals. Nevertheless it shall be lawful to stop such vessels and articles, and to detain them for such length of time as the captors may think...