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Abraham Lincoln adopted amendment America Andrew Johnson anti-slavery appointed arms ARTICLE articles of confederation assassin authority avowed ballot battle blood Booth C. H. Spurgeon called cause Christian churches citizens civil claim Confederate congress assembled consent Constitution crime declared duties elected enemy executive Federal government Fort Sumter freedom governor Grant hands Henry Ward Beecher hold honour impeachment Jefferson Davis judge justice labour land legislature liberty Lincoln manner ment military militia millions Missouri Compromise murder nations Neale Dowe negro North Northern number of votes party passed peace person political present President principles prisoners rebel rebellion recognised respective Richard Cobden Richmond secession senate Seward Sherman slave slaveholding slavery soldiers South Carolina Southern sovereign sovereignty Stonewall Jackson supreme court thereof thousand eight hundred tion treason Union United vice-president Washington Wendell Phillips whilst York
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Page 22 - Term, be elected, as follows 2. Each State shall appoint, in such Manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a Number of Electors, equal to the whole Number of Senators and Representatives to which the State may be entitled in the Congress: but no Senator or Representative, or Person holding an Office of Trust or Profit under the United States, shall be appointed an Elector.
Page 44 - ... then it shall be the duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe...
Page 25 - ... 3. 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 42 - ... is true, and was published with good motives, and for justifiable ends, the party shall be acquitted; and the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the fact.
Page 21 - 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 State.
Page 21 - ... 2. The privilege of the writ of habeas corpus shall not be suspended, unless when, in cases of rebellion or invasion, the public safety may require it. 3. No bill of attainder, or ex post facto law, shall be passed. 4. No capitation or other direct tax shall be laid, unless in proportion to the census or enumeration herein before directed to be taken.
Page 13 - ... such of the powers of congress as the United States in congress assembled, by the consent of nine states, shall from time to time think expedient to vest them with ; provided that no power be delegated to the said committee, for the exercise of which, by the articles of confederation, the voice of nine states In the congress of the United States assembled is requisite, ARTICLE XI.