The Constitutions of the United States: According to the Latest Amendments. To which are Prefixed, the Declaration of Independence and the Federal Constitution ...John Conrad & Company, and sold at all their Book Stores on the Continent., 1804 - 391 páginas |
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... hundred and eight ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on fuch importation , not exceeding ten dollars for each perfon . II . The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus fhall not be fufpended , unlefs when , in cafes of rebellion or ...
... hundred and eight ; but a tax or duty may be imposed on fuch importation , not exceeding ten dollars for each perfon . II . The privilege of the writ of Habeas Corpus fhall not be fufpended , unlefs when , in cafes of rebellion or ...
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... hundred pounds , lying within this State , who is not of the age of thirty years , and who shall not have been an inhabitant of this State for seven years immediately preceding his election , and at the time thereof he shall be an ...
... hundred pounds , lying within this State , who is not of the age of thirty years , and who shall not have been an inhabitant of this State for seven years immediately preceding his election , and at the time thereof he shall be an ...
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... hundred and fifty rateable polls , may elect two Representatives ; and so proceeding , in that proportion , making three hundred such rateable polls the mean increasing number , for every additional Representative . Such towns ...
... hundred and fifty rateable polls , may elect two Representatives ; and so proceeding , in that proportion , making three hundred such rateable polls the mean increasing number , for every additional Representative . Such towns ...
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... hundred pounds , one half of which to be a freehold , whereof he is seiz- ed in his own right : shall be , at the time of his elec- tion , an inhabitant of the district which he may be cho- sen to represent ; and shall cease to ...
... hundred pounds , one half of which to be a freehold , whereof he is seiz- ed in his own right : shall be , at the time of his elec- tion , an inhabitant of the district which he may be cho- sen to represent ; and shall cease to ...
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... hundred pounds , one half of which shall con- sist of a freehold , in his own right , within this State . In cases of disagreement between the two Houses , with regard to the time or place of adjournment or pro- rogation , the Governor ...
... hundred pounds , one half of which shall con- sist of a freehold , in his own right , within this State . In cases of disagreement between the two Houses , with regard to the time or place of adjournment or pro- rogation , the Governor ...
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Página 321 - The navigable waters leading into the Mississippi and St. Lawrence, and the carrying places between the same shall be common highways and forever free...
Página 121 - In prosecutions for the publication of papers investigating the official conduct of officers, or men in a public capacity, or where the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And, in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have a right to determine the law and the facts under the direction of the court as in other cases.
Página 322 - States in all respects whatever ; and shall be at liberty to form a permanent constitution and State government. Provided the constitution and government so to be formed shall be republican, and in conformity to the principles contained in these articles, and, so far as it can be consistent with the general interest of the Confederacy, such admission shall be allowed at an earlier period, and when there may be a less number of free inhabitants in the State than sixty thousand. ARTICLE VI. There shall...
Página 318 - ... representatives shall be regulated by the legislature; provided that no person be eligible or qualified to act as a representative unless he shall have been a citizen of one of the United States three years and be a resident in the district or unless he shall have resided in the district three years and in either case shall likewise hold in his own right in...
Página 255 - That all men have a natural and indefeasible right to worship Almighty God according to the dictates of their own consciences; that no man can, of right, be compelled to attend, erect, or support any place of worship, or to maintain any ministry against his consent ; that no human authority can, in any case whatever, control or interfere with the rights of conscience ; and that no preference shall ever be given by law, to any religious establishments or modes of worship.
Página 318 - The general assembly or legislature shall consist of the governor, legislative council, and a house of representatives. The legislative council shall consist of five members, to continue in office five years unless sooner removed by Congress; any three of whom to be a quorum: and the members of...
Página 41 - Constitution ; and to impose and levy proportional and reasonable assessments, rates, and taxes, upon all the inhabitants of, and persons resident, and estates lying, within the said Commonwealth ; and also to impose and levy reasonable duties and excises, upon any produce, goods, wares, merchandise, and commodities whatsoever, brought into, produced, manufactured, or being within the same...
Página 41 - And while the public charges of government, or any part thereof, shall be assessed on polls and estates, in the manner that has hitherto been practised, in order that such assessments may be made with equality, there shall be a valuation of estates within the commonwealth, taken anew once in every ten years at least, and as much oftener as the general court shall order.
Página 315 - Be it ordained, by the United States, in Congress assembled, that the said Territory, for the purposes of temporary government, be one district ; subject, however, to be divided into two districts, as future circumstances may, in the opinion of Congress, make it expedient.
Página 317 - For the prevention of crimes and injuries the laws to be adopted or made shall have force in all parts of the district and for the execution of process criminal and civil, the governor shall make proper divisions thereof, and he shall proceed from time to time as circumstances may require to lay out the parts of the District in which the indian titles shall have been extinguished into counties and townships subject however to such alterations as may thereafter be made by the legislature...