Biographical Story of the Constitution: A Study of the Growth of the American UnionG.P. Putnam's Sons, 1910 - 400 páginas |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Biographical Story of the Constitution: A Study of the Growth of the ... Edward Elliott Visualização integral - 1910 |
Biographical Story of the Constitution: A Study of the Growth of the ... Edward Elliott Visualização integral - 1910 |
Biographical Story of the Constitution: A Study of the Growth of the ... Edward Elliott Visualização integral - 1910 |
Palavras e frases frequentes
adoption Alexander Hamilton amendments American Andrew Jackson Annapolis Convention appointed Articles of Confederation authority bill Burgess Calhoun character citizens civil Committee compact compromise Congress assembled Consti Constitutional Convention contract declared defence delegated democracy Democratic-Republican party Democratic-Republicans determined doctrine duties elected equal ernment established Executive exercise Federal Government Federalist force Hamilton Hist History House House of Burgesses Ibid important independent individual Jackson James Wilson Jefferson Jersey plan judge judicial legislative Legislature liberty limits Lincoln Madison Marshall measures ment national government nature necessary Nullification opinion ordinance party person political position President principles purpose question rebellion Reconstruction Representatives Republican Resolutions respect result Roosevelt seceded Secession secure Senate slavery slaves society South Carolina sovereign sovereignty spirit Stevens stitution Supreme Court territory Thaddeus Stevens theory thereof tion treaty tution Union United Vice-President Virginia Virginia plan vote Webster
Passagens conhecidas
Página 376 - And upon this act, sincerely believed to be an act of justice, warranted by the constitution upon military necessity, I invoke the considerate judgment of mankind and the gracious favor of Almighty God.
Página 280 - ... 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. Full faith and credit shall be given in each of these States to the records, acts, and judicial proceedings of the courts and magistrates of every other State.
Página 335 - The Constitution is either a superior paramount law unchangeable by ordinary means, or it is on a level with ordinary legislative Acts, and like other Acts is alterable when the Legislature shall please to alter it. If the former part of the alternative be true then a legislative Act contrary to the Constitution is not law. If the latter part be true, then written constitutions are absurd attempts on the part of the people to limit a power in its own nature illimitable.
Página 375 - Commander-in-Chief of the army and navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for suppressing said rebellion, do, on this first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and sixty-three, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the day first above mentioned, order and designate, as the States...
Página 307 - Done in convention, by the unanimous consent of the States present, the seventeenth day of September, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, and of the independence of the United States of America the twelfth.
Página 283 - Entering into treaties and alliances; provided that no treaty of commerce shall be made whereby the legislative power of the respective states shall be restrained from imposing such imposts and duties on foreigners as their own people are subjected to, or from prohibiting the exportation or importation of any species of goods or commodities whatever...
Página 286 - The United States, in Congress assembled, shall have authority to appoint a committee to sit in the recess of Congress, to be denominated "a Committee of the States," and to consist of one delegate from each State ; and to appoint such other committees and civil officers as may be necessary for managing the general affairs of the United States under their direction ; to appoint one of their number to preside, provided that no person...
Página 301 - No person except a natural-born citizen, or a citizen of the United States at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-five years, and been fourteen years a resident within the United States.
Página 279 - 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...
Página 335 - The powers of the legislature are defined and limited, and that those limits may not be mistaken or forgotten the Constitution is written. To what purpose are powers limited, and to what purpose is that limitation committed to writing, if these limits may at any time be passed by those intended to be restrained...
Referências a este livro
Montesquieu in America, 1760-1801. Paul Merrill Spurlin ... Paul Merrill Spurlin Visualização de excertos - 1940 |