The United States Government ManualOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Service, General Services Administration, 1987 |
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... Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States , shall be appointed an Elector . The Electors shall ... Persons voted for , and of the Number of Votes for each ; which List they shall sign and certify , and transmit ...
... Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States , shall be appointed an Elector . The Electors shall ... Persons voted for , and of the Number of Votes for each ; which List they shall sign and certify , and transmit ...
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... Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act , or on Confession in open Court . The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason , but no Attainder of Treason ...
... Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act , or on Confession in open Court . The Congress shall have Power to declare the Punishment of Treason , but no Attainder of Treason ...
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... persons or things to be seized . Amendment 5 No person shall be held to answer for a capital , or otherwise infamous crime , unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury , except in cases arising in the land or naval forces ...
... persons or things to be seized . Amendment 5 No person shall be held to answer for a capital , or otherwise infamous crime , unless on a presentment or indictment of a Grand Jury , except in cases arising in the land or naval forces ...
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... person voted for as President , and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice - President , and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President , and of all persons voted for as Vice- President , and of the ...
... person voted for as President , and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice - President , and they shall make distinct lists of all persons voted for as President , and of all persons voted for as Vice- President , and of the ...
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... person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws . Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers , counting the whole number of persons in each State ...
... person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws . Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers , counting the whole number of persons in each State ...
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Page 3 - The Unanimous Declaration of the Thirteen United States of America When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires...
Page 19 - Section 2. The Congress and the several States shall have concurrent power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. Section 3. This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by the legislatures of the several States as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.
Page 4 - 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 22 - President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive department or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit within four days to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives their written declaration that the President is unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office.
Page 13 - 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...
Page 8 - 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 20 - January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.
Page 11 - 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 22 - Section 1. In case of the removal of the President from office or of his death or resignation, the Vice President shall become President. Section 2. Whenever there is a vacancy in the office of the Vice President, the President shall nominate a Vice President who shall take office upon confirmation by a majority vote of both Houses of Congress.
Page 21 - Section 3 This article shall be inoperative unless it shall have been ratified as an amendment to the Constitution by conventions in the several States, as provided in the Constitution, within seven years from the date of the submission hereof to the States by the Congress.