A Political Manual for 1869: Including a Classified Summary of the Important Executive, Legislative, Judicial, Politico-military and General Facts of the Period from July 15, 1868 to July 15, 1869Philp & Solomons, 1869 - 123 páginas |
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Página 381
... present time . The votes in Congress during the struggle which resulted in the passage of the Suffrage or XVth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States , will disclose the contrariety of opinion which prevailed upon this point ...
... present time . The votes in Congress during the struggle which resulted in the passage of the Suffrage or XVth Amendment of the Constitution of the United States , will disclose the contrariety of opinion which prevailed upon this point ...
Página 386
... present fiscal year will not be real- about thirty - one millions ; while our population slightly exceeded eight millions , showing an expenditure of only $ 3 80 per capita . In 1847 the expenditures growing out of the war with Mexico ...
... present fiscal year will not be real- about thirty - one millions ; while our population slightly exceeded eight millions , showing an expenditure of only $ 3 80 per capita . In 1847 the expenditures growing out of the war with Mexico ...
Página 387
... present rate of interest . The Secretary of the Treasury , in his report , recom- mends five per cent .; Congress , in a bill passed prior to adjournment , on the 27th of July last , agreed upon four and four and a half per cent ...
... present rate of interest . The Secretary of the Treasury , in his report , recom- mends five per cent .; Congress , in a bill passed prior to adjournment , on the 27th of July last , agreed upon four and four and a half per cent ...
Página 388
... present rates be equal to nine per cent . in currency , and equivalent to the pay - value of our paper issues , when compared with ment of the debt one and a half time in a fraction less than seventeen years . This , in connection with ...
... present rates be equal to nine per cent . in currency , and equivalent to the pay - value of our paper issues , when compared with ment of the debt one and a half time in a fraction less than seventeen years . This , in connection with ...
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... present rates be equal to nine per cent . in currency , and equivalent to the payment of the debt one and a half times in a fraction less than seventeen years . This , in con- nection with all the other advantages derived from their ...
... present rates be equal to nine per cent . in currency , and equivalent to the payment of the debt one and a half times in a fraction less than seventeen years . This , in con- nection with all the other advantages derived from their ...
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Passagens conhecidas
Página 435 - That the power to tax involves the power to destroy ; that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create ; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very measures, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control, are propositions not to be denied.
Página 464 - Why does a judge swear to discharge his duties agreeably to the constitution of the United States if that constitution forms no rule for his government — if it is closed upon him, and cannot be inspected by him? If such be the real state of things, this is worse than solemn mockery. To prescribe or to take this oath becomes equally a crime.
Página 404 - Resolved by the senate and house of representatives of the United States of America in congress assembled (two-thirds of both houses concurring,) That the following article be proposed to the legislatures of the several states as an amendment to the constitution of the United States...
Página 461 - ... or as an officer of the United States, or as a member of any state legislature, or as an executive or judicial officer of any state, to support the constitution of the United States, shall have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the same, or given aid or comfort to the enemies thereof. But congress may, by a vote of two thirds of each house, remove such disability.
Página 452 - Under this article of the constitution it rests with congress to decide what government is the established one in a State. For as the United States guarantee to each State a republican government, congress must necessarily decide what government is established in the State before it can determine whether it is republican or not.
Página 431 - Laws shall be made to exclude from office, serving on juries, and from the right of suffrage, those who shall hereafter be convicted of bribery, perjury, forgery, or other high crimes. The privilege of free suffrage shall be supported by laws regulating elections, and prohibiting, under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon, from power, bribery, tumult, or other improper practice.
Página 450 - It is difficult to convey the idea of indissoluble unity more clearly than by these words. What can be indissoluble if a perpetual Union, made more perfect, is not...
Página 435 - ... That the power to tax involves the power to destroy: that the power to destroy may defeat and render useless the power to create; that there is a plain repugnance in conferring on one government a power to control the constitutional measures of another, which other, with respect to those very means, is declared to be supreme over that which exerts the control are propositions not to be denied.
Página 476 - That it shall be the duty of each officer assigned as aforesaid, to protect all persons in their rights of person and property, to suppress insurrection, disorder, and violence, and to punish, or cause to be punished, all disturbers of the public peace and criminals...
Página 464 - The judicial power of the United States is extended to all cases arising under the Constitution. Could it be the intention of those who gave this power, to say that in using it the Constitution should not be looked into ? That a case arising under the Constitution should be decided without examining the instrument under which it arises ? This is too extravagant to be maintained.