A Course of Lectures on the Constitutional Jurisprudence of the United States: Delivered Annually in Columbia College, New York |
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... Federalist " as an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained , in a government wholly elective . The delicacy and magnitude of a trust which so deep- ly concerns the political reputation and exist- ence of every one ...
... Federalist " as an object not more to be desired than difficult to be obtained , in a government wholly elective . The delicacy and magnitude of a trust which so deep- ly concerns the political reputation and exist- ence of every one ...
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... Federalist , " the man- ner of choosing the President was affirmed to be , " if not perfect , at least excellent , " and to unite , in an eminent degree , all the advantages of which the selection and association were to be desired . It ...
... Federalist , " the man- ner of choosing the President was affirmed to be , " if not perfect , at least excellent , " and to unite , in an eminent degree , all the advantages of which the selection and association were to be desired . It ...
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... Federalist " as one of the most valuable of modern improvements in the practice of government . In a monarchy , it is a necessary barrier against the despotism of the prince ; in a republic , it is no less essential as a defence against ...
... Federalist " as one of the most valuable of modern improvements in the practice of government . In a monarchy , it is a necessary barrier against the despotism of the prince ; in a republic , it is no less essential as a defence against ...
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... Federalist , " " which depends on clearer principles , than that every act of a delegated authority , contrary to the commission under which it is exercised , is void . " No legislative act , therefore , contrary to the Constitution ...
... Federalist , " " which depends on clearer principles , than that every act of a delegated authority , contrary to the commission under which it is exercised , is void . " No legislative act , therefore , contrary to the Constitution ...
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... Federalist , " that the state courts retained all pre - existing authority , or the juris- diction which they had before the adoption of the Constitution ; except where it was taken away either by an exclusive authority granted in ex ...
... Federalist , " that the state courts retained all pre - existing authority , or the juris- diction which they had before the adoption of the Constitution ; except where it was taken away either by an exclusive authority granted in ex ...
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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.