A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States: Delivered Annually in Columbia College, New York |
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... Congress was called at the instance of the government in England ; and although the object of the ministry in ... assembled , was a unani- mous resolution that a union of the colonies was ab- solutely necessary for their ...
... Congress was called at the instance of the government in England ; and although the object of the ministry in ... assembled , was a unani- mous resolution that a union of the colonies was ab- solutely necessary for their ...
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... Congress could be obtained , the peo- ple themselves assembled in those places where the spirit of opposition prevailed , and elected dele- gates , who were readily received as members of the Congress . The powers with which the ...
... Congress could be obtained , the peo- ple themselves assembled in those places where the spirit of opposition prevailed , and elected dele- gates , who were readily received as members of the Congress . The powers with which the ...
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... Congress , con- sisting of delegates from twelve provinces , clothed with ample discretionary powers , met at Philadel- phia ; and soon after it assembled , the accession of Georgia completed the confederation of the Thirteen Colonies ...
... Congress , con- sisting of delegates from twelve provinces , clothed with ample discretionary powers , met at Philadel- phia ; and soon after it assembled , the accession of Georgia completed the confederation of the Thirteen Colonies ...
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... Congress , has been fixed by law on the first Wednesday in December , in every fourth year succeeding the last ... assembled , and fully organized , by filling up vacancies occurring from the death or absence of any of their number ...
... Congress , has been fixed by law on the first Wednesday in December , in every fourth year succeeding the last ... assembled , and fully organized , by filling up vacancies occurring from the death or absence of any of their number ...
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... assembled in arms for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable de- sign , all those who perform any part in ... Congress with respect to the punishment is , that " no attainder of treason shall work. † 11 J. R. , 553 . * 4 ...
... assembled in arms for the purpose of effecting by force a treasonable de- sign , all those who perform any part in ... Congress with respect to the punishment is , that " no attainder of treason shall work. † 11 J. R. , 553 . * 4 ...
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Page 404 - ... hereafter shall be formed in the said territory: to provide also for the establishment of States, and permanent government therein, and for their admission to a share in the federal councils on an equal footing with the original States, at as early periods as may be consistent with the general interest...
Page 361 - Congress shall make. 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 342 - Union, the free inhabitants of each of these States, paupers, vagabonds, and fugitives from justice excepted, shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of free citizens in the several States; and the people of each State shall have free ingress and regress to and from any other State, and shall enjoy therein all the privileges of trade and commerce, subject to the same duties, impositions and restrictions as the inhabitants thereof respectively...
Page 362 - New States may be admitted by the Congress into this Union ; but no new State shall be formed or erected within the jurisdiction of any other State ; nor any State be formed by the junction of two or more States, or parts of States, without the consent of the legislatures of the States concerned as well as of the Congress.
Page 357 - ... for executing its inspection laws: and the net produce of all duties and imposts laid by any State on imports or exports, shall be for the use of the treasury of the United States; and all such laws shall be subject to the revision and control of the Congress.
Page 406 - Provided, however, and it is further understood and declared, that the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered, that, if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies North of an East and West line drawn through the Southerly bend or extreme of lake Michigan.
Page 357 - State be obliged to enter, clear, or pay duties in another. 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...
Page 358 - 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...
Page 338 - He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause others to be elected; whereby the Legislative Powers, incapable of Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
Page 345 - States shall be divided or appropriated ; of granting letters of marque and reprisal in times of peace, appointing courts for the trial of piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and establishing courts for receiving and determining finally appeals in all cases of captures, provided that no member of Congress shall be appointed a judge of any of the said courts.