The Political Text-book, Or Encyclopedia: Containing Everything Necessary for the Reference of the Politicians and Statesmen of the United StatesMichael W. Cluskey C. Wendell, 1857 - 636 páginas |
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... admission that a convention of her people shall expunge this article from her constitution . She is entitled to admission as a slave state as Louisiana , and Mississippi , and Alabama , and Missouri have been admit- ted , by virtue of ...
... admission that a convention of her people shall expunge this article from her constitution . She is entitled to admission as a slave state as Louisiana , and Mississippi , and Alabama , and Missouri have been admit- ted , by virtue of ...
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... admission , it was formed by the qualified electors mentioned in that ordinance . Mr. BELL , of Tenn . I ask the honorable Senator again , if , up to the time when the uniform rule of naturalization was passed by Congress under the ...
... admission , it was formed by the qualified electors mentioned in that ordinance . Mr. BELL , of Tenn . I ask the honorable Senator again , if , up to the time when the uniform rule of naturalization was passed by Congress under the ...
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... admission of Minnesota if they refuse to put in this amendment . I intend to put myself right before the country in rela- tion to what I said , for I do not like , lawyer , to say anything that is not maintain- able by the statute . The ...
... admission of Minnesota if they refuse to put in this amendment . I intend to put myself right before the country in rela- tion to what I said , for I do not like , lawyer , to say anything that is not maintain- able by the statute . The ...
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... admission of Michigan into the Union . The speech will be found in vol . 2d of the Works of Mr. Calhoun , page 496 to 559 . Mr. Calhoun said : I regret that my colleague has thought pro- per to raise the question , whether a state has a ...
... admission of Michigan into the Union . The speech will be found in vol . 2d of the Works of Mr. Calhoun , page 496 to 559 . Mr. Calhoun said : I regret that my colleague has thought pro- per to raise the question , whether a state has a ...
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... admission is now to be used to establish the principle that a state may confer citizenship on an alien , we may all live to re- gret that the Constitution was not amended according to the suggestion . the danger to the rights of states ...
... admission is now to be used to establish the principle that a state may confer citizenship on an alien , we may all live to re- gret that the Constitution was not amended according to the suggestion . the danger to the rights of states ...
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Página 37 - ... the United States in Congress assembled shall from time to time direct and appoint. The taxes for paying that proportion shall be laid and levied by the authority and direction of the Legislatures of the several States within the time agreed upon by the United States in Congress assembled.
Página 37 - States, and exacting such postage on the papers passing through the same as may be requisite to defray the expenses of the said office; appointing all officers of the land forces in the service of the United States, excepting regimental officers; appointing all the officers of the naval forces, and commissioning all officers whatever in the service of the United States; making rules for the government and regulation of the said land and naval forces, and directing their operations. The United States...
Página 36 - If any person guilty of, or charged with treason, felony, or other high misdemeanor in any State, shall flee from justice, and be found in any of the United States, he shall upon demand of the Governor or Executive power, of the State from which he fled, be delivered up and removed to the State having jurisdiction of his offence.
Página 89 - The citizens of each State shall be entitled to all privileges and immunities of citizens in the several States. 2. A person charged in any State with treason, felony or other crime, who shall flee from justice, and be found in another State, shall, on demand of the executive authority of the State from which he fled, be delivered up, to be removed to the State having jurisdiction of the crime.
Página 36 - Congress by less than two, nor by more than seven Members; and no person shall be capable of being a delegate for more than three years in any term of six years; nor shall any person, being a delegate, be capable of holding any office under the united states, for which he, or another for his benefit receives any salary, fees or emolument of any kind. Each state shall maintain its own delegates in a meeting of the states, and while they act as members of the committee of the states.
Página 33 - ... accustoming yourselves to think and speak of it as of the Palladium of your political safety and prosperity; watching for its preservation with jealous anxiety; discountenancing whatever may suggest even a suspicion that it can in any event be abandoned, and indignantly frowning upon the first dawning of every attempt to alienate any portion of our Country from the rest, or to enfeeble the sacred ties which now link together the various parts.
Página 100 - 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.
Página 212 - There shall be neither slavery nor involuntary servitude in the said territory otherwise than in the punishment of crimes, whereof the party shall have been duly convicted; Provided, always, That any person escaping into the same, from whom labor or service is lawfully claimed in any one of the original States, such fugitive may be lawfully reclaimed and conveyed to the person claiming his or her labor or service as aforesaid.
Página 303 - 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.
Página 89 - I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will faithfully execute the office of President of the United States, and will, to the best of my ability, preserve, protect, and defend the Constitution of the United States.